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Practical Performance Benchmarking, and Tuning 20 Nov 2011 | 10:12 am
As promised here are my slides, a few corrections, and some links to further resources.
Building Custom Panel Panes (CTools Content Types) in Drupal 7 1 May 2011 | 11:00 am
Content types (a.k.a. panel panes) are one of CTools' most visible, versatile, and easy to learn APIs. In this tutorial, we're going to build a custom content type (or panel pane depending on what you...
Dusting Off This Ol' Blog 25 Apr 2011 | 03:01 pm
We're back baby! We're updated to Drupal 7, and have a brand new look that is even more bland than the previous look! The truth is I hate the new look and know stuff is sort of broken. I pushed it out...
Putting My Blog Under the Knife 8 May 2010 | 01:41 pm
Its difficult to write about the future of drupal when your blog is a shoddy canibalization of garland that still uses the god damn blog module. It sort of feels like what this guy must feel like when...
Food for Thought: Drupal's Pattern Language 24 Mar 2010 | 02:01 pm
I particularly liked this cliff notes of a "pattern language": In a pattern language individual patterns are not isolated. The structure of the language is composed of the links from larger patterns ...
The Classical Style of Drupal Architecture 14 Feb 2010 | 08:13 pm
Update: The final proposed session is a bit more focused. This is why I pretend there's a method to my madness.
Hitler Finds Out That Drupal 7 Might Release Without Panels 17 Jan 2010 | 12:12 pm
Hitler finds out that that Panels might not be ready for Drupal 7.0 at a recent Hitler's Drupal Users meetup. Note this another Hitler downfall video, which i find to be hilarious Interested in ...
Drupal 7 is Looking Beautiful 15 Jan 2010 | 06:47 pm
A Belligerent Rant on Design Centered Websites with Poor Communication Skills 13 Jan 2010 | 06:13 pm
Please be seated for my sermon. There's an evil force out there, and its responsible for the majority of failed websites. This force seduces you into focusing too much on questions like: "Is that the...
40+ Essential Drupal Modules 5 Jan 2010 | 07:59 am
If you are new to drupal, then this list is for you. These are some of the best of the best drupal modules. Everything from standard framework modules, to location and mapping is covered. Note that if...