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Improving Drupal.org download process with web analytics
In the month of June we enabled Google Analytics on Drupal.org as part of an effort to build a user experience toolkit. The toolkit was designed to provide insight on: what users were searching for, what traffic patterns and workflows vistors were following, and what usability feedback we can get from field studies. If you are interested in Drupal.org analytics you should attend the web conference on key performance indicators tomorrow.
To start we decided to focus on an important destination in any website, the landing page. One of the... More
Jeff Whatcott on Acquia
John Eckman of Optaros sat down with Jeff Whatcott, Acquia's Chief Communicator, to talk about Drupal and Acquia. Rock on, Jeff.
If you can't see the video above, you can view it directly at blip.tv.
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The DX Files: Defined constants as API arguments
This is part two of my series, The DX Files: Improving Drupal Developer Experience.
Many Drupal APIs accept a boolean argument (TRUE or FALSE) to determine some behavior. I believe that practice should be banned in all but exceptional cases, instead using a defined constant with a descriptive name.
Here is a perfect example from Drupal core:
<span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /> $output </span><span... More
Mollom in Jobat
I was recently interviewed by Barbara Vandenbussche for Jobat, a Belgian employment website with a weekly print magazine written in Dutch. The interview (PDF, Dutch) talks about Drupal, but also mentions Acquia and Mollom. It is the first time that Mollom was prominently featured in the printed press, and that needs to be celebrated with a blog post. Yay!
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