Its hard to teach performance. There is so much to know before you can even consider making performance enhancements. This book makes no exception of that. It spends the first three chapters showing the reader, 'the ropes' of Drupal

Therefore it took me a while to get to the good stuff, the performance enhancements I could...

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A friend of mine came around the other night, he just got himself a new iPhone. I'm not really a fan, but good on him. He asked me to let him connect to my wireless router then in a matter of minutes hew had control of my iTunes on a windows laptop of mine. Rather impressive. 

I, however, am a geek and not a Mac fan. I don't like iTunes mainly because it cannot handle the capcity of music I try to make it index. iTunes has a critical mass and dies soon after exceeding it.

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It may have taken me a whole day to wrap my head around the features API and how it applied to the workflow module but I finally got there. Today I wrote features support to the workflow module. At DrupalSouth I gave a talk about features in ...

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The past week here in Wellington New Zealand has been quite an exciting one with LCA (Linux Conf AU) and DrupalSouth (Drupal conference for New Zealand) both taking place. We had a lot of speakers from around the world come to Wellington to present what they've been up to and talk about there passions in Open Source. In particular, I was...

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In short, Drupal 6 Site Blueprints is a Drupal book for beginners and not a bad one at that. It uses application, excersises and repetition to teach the reader how...

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Okay, so I don't normally review books. I was approached and asked to review this Drupal book and I couldn't turn it down. Without a doubt, search engine optimization is a big factor to the fail or success of a website these days and some companies pay big money to get that no.1 ranking in Google. As a developer, it couldn't hurt to...

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For the first, in Paris, all the database maintainers of Drupal were in the same place at the same time. From the left is David Strauss (MySQL Driver), Larry Garfield (Database and...

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Sick of repeating the same steps every time I wrote a custom module for a project, I decided to write a simple script that generated the base structure for creating a Drupal module.

Being a developer who likes to make stuff take less time by spending ages on the tools that make it take less time, I extended the simple script and...

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As all well and done providing PostgreSQL support for Drupal Core - it an important job that provides future proofing for thousands of projects around the world...

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If you've altered your stock standard postgresql.conf configuration file of your Ubuntu server and upgraded to the lastest release, there is a good chance you'll get an error like:


FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Invalid argument
DETAIL:  Failed...

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