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CCK and Views article in PHP User magazine

Posted on Sat, Oct 24, 2009 11:23 by Robert Douglass
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This month's issue of the print magazine and website PHP User (in German) features an article on Drupal's CCK and Views module. The article was written by Meinolf Droste of MDWP, an Acquia Silver Partner.

Drupal at Digital Marketing First conference in Belgium

Posted on Fri, Oct 23, 2009 13:45 by Robert Douglass
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Yesterday I gave a keynote presentation at the Digital Marketing First 09 trade show in Brussels, Belgium. Drupal was out in full force with four Belgian companies joining forces to make the conference a special Drupal-themed event. There were also a number of other companies present who are using Drupal.

Sneaky Drupal Pagers

Posted on Fri, Oct 02, 2009 09:55 by Robert Douglass
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See the update at the bottom!

Drupal’s pagers are neat, and when they were first developed, were way ahead of their time. They also have a couple problems. One of them is scalability. When you’ve got 10,000,000 somethings, calculating how many pages there are so that you can skip to the last one is time consuming.

Views 3 + Apache Solr + Acquia Drupal = The Future of Search

Posted on Wed, Sep 30, 2009 12:31 by Robert Douglass
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For the last six months, Scott Reynolds has been keeping a big juicy secret. As the maintainer of the Apache Solr Views module, he knows just how cool the future of Drupal Search is going to be. His module, based on an idea and code from Thomas Seidl, lets you make custom searches against the Solr index the same way you currently make views against the MySQL database.

XDebug, Komodo, and the Acquia Drupal Stack Installer

Posted on Fri, Sep 25, 2009 13:08 by Robert Douglass
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The Acquia Drupal Stack installer for Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) has been released, and it’s pretty cool (works on 10.5 Leopard, too, of course). I’m now using it as my primary development environment, replacing MAMP. In this article I show how you can configure the stack installer to use XDebug for step through debugging.

DrupalCamp Kiev looks like a blast

Posted on Mon, Sep 14, 2009 11:15 by Robert Douglass
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Shortly before DrupalCon Paris, there was DrupalCamp Kiev. From this video it looks like it was a great success, and it shows that there is strong support for Drupal among the Russian speaking countries. Acquia was a sponsor of DrupalCamp Kiev.

Five Voices on Drupal

Posted on Wed, Aug 19, 2009 08:12 by Robert Douglass
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Recorded and produced in conjunction with NodeOne for DrupalCamp Stockholm, 2009.

The Path to Drupal - equating extensibility with success

Posted on Tue, Aug 18, 2009 11:43 by Robert Douglass
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Some time ago I wrote an article that looks deeply at the Drupal path system and shows how easy it is for new developers to hook into a running Drupal system. I explore the idea that this openness and extensibility is a key factor in winning large numbers of developers to work on Drupal, and that this is one of the reasons the project is succeeding. The paper is now available at Acquia, beautifully formatted as a technical whitepaper.

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