Barry Jaspan
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Posted on Wednesday, December 8, 2010 - 17:18
Drupal site building often involves moving a site from one environment to another: from a local development environment to a staging server on the web to a full production cluster. This short screencast shows how to export a site from Drupal Gardens
More... Posted on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 18:46
At Dries' keynote at Drupalcon Copenhagen today, he talked about what the Drupal project might look like in 10 more years, and what it might mean if the project grows by a factor of 10. I'd like to elaborate a bit on his theme by making an analogy
More... Posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 20:51
Yesterday I participated in the Drupal 7 code sprint with a host of excellent people. We made good progress and also talked about the state of the Drupal 7 release. Apparently Moshe and I came to a very similar conclusion about what needs to be done
More... Posted on Friday, August 6, 2010 - 08:53
Trivia question: Suppose you execute the MySQL queries
CREATE TABLE t1 ( id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, n INT NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (id))INSERT INTO t1 (n) VALUES (100)INSERT INTO t1 (n) VALUES (200)
What are the values for the id
More... Posted on Monday, July 12, 2010 - 17:17
The speed of light is, unfortunately, still a constant. If your Drupal site has users in San Francisco, New York, London, Tokyo, Delhi, and Australia (and whose doesn't?), you've had no good way to give all of them fast access to your site. No
More... Posted on Monday, May 10, 2010 - 10:51
Acquia Hosting is designed to be a high performance, high reliability, highly scalable, and highly manageable Drupal hosting infrastructure. Our goal was to be able to quickly provision small and large sites, meet the enormous requirements of Drupal
More... Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 02:35
I'm in my hotel room after the final day of Drupalcon San Francisco 2010. As always, I had a great time at the conference. I've been so busy building Acquia Hosting for the last year that I lost track of most of what went on with Drupal development
More... Posted on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 15:43
The Field API is major new functionality in Drupal 7 to provide custom data types just like CCK did for previous versions of Drupal. Field API became part of Drupal 7 February, 2009, but there is still plenty of work to do. We need your help, and
More... Posted on Monday, April 27, 2009 - 15:00
The Field API is major new functionality in Drupal 7 to provide custom data types just like CCK did for previous versions of Drupal. The Field API team has written fairly thorough API documentation but that is more useful as reference material than
More... Posted on Saturday, April 25, 2009 - 15:12
This is part five of my series, The DX Files: Improving Drupal Developer Experience. Today I am simply posting, verbatim, a message that a potential new Drupal developer sent me. The point here is just to understand how Drupal's DX influences the
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