2013
Backbone.js in the Frontend | DrupalCon Munich 2012
by holyverIt will be a practical session, showing demos and explaining how Backbone & friends are changing the way of making web apps. Also Ethan will present how the Backbone module for Drupal can help you to speed up your web app development, so you don't have to re-invent the wheel.
2012
Getting Started with Drupal: Optimizing Your Drupal Application | New Relic blog
by holyverSo slow pages can have a very real impact on your business. These are some very real incentives for whipping your site into shape, so let’s move on from the why to the how.
Article: File Entity Inline : le futur de la gestion de fichier sous Drupal ?
by holyverNouveau module d'importance qui vient de sortir : File Entity Inline. Réalisé par un auteur bien connu de la communauté Drupal (quicksketch), le module File Entity Inline permet de se coupler au module File entity afin de disposer de chargement de fichier "fieldable". Mais que signifie donc ce charbia ?
Drupalcamp Pakistan: Automating Drupal Deployment | Drupal Developer | Dominique De Cooman
by holyverThe goal of automating deployment is to make introducing new features easier. In this post we will learn how to set up a workflow that will move code and configuration of your drupal site from your local development station, to development, to staging and to production all by a using your version control and a push of a button.
agile approach | Moving Forward with Open Atrium 2.0
by holyverOpen Atrium has long been the go-to "Intranet in a box" distribution for Drupal 6. Obviously, Drupal 6 is nearing it's official "end of life" and something needed to be done with Open Atrium. The question for the past year has been: "What exactly should be done?" Should we just port the existing modules to D7? Should we just leap-frog to Drupal 8? What about new functionality? What about improving existing functionality? How do we make Open Atrium more accessible to more types of users? How do we take advantage of new Drupal 7 components?
Quoi de neuf dans Drush 5 ? | Le blog de SebCorbin - Sébastien Corbin
by holyverDurant la DrupalCon Denver cette semaine a eu lieu une conférence par Moshe Weitzman, Jonathan Hedstrom, Owen Barton et Mark Sonnabaum. À l'issue de celle-ci devait être releasée la version 5 stable de Drush (je suis peut-être un peu en avance sur ceci).
Drush est votre ami, si vous êtes un développeur, vous devez forcément l'avoir installé, et je vais donc partir du principe que vous avez utilisé la version 4. Je vais vous présenter dans cet article les nouvelles fonctionnalités de la version 5.
Drupal 7 SEO made easy - Content Analysis & Optimizer modules
by holyver (via)The two modules work together to help assure your site content is optimized for search engines. The magic formula for ranking well in the search engines is: Great Architecture + Great Backlinks and Buzz + Great Content = Great Rankings
2011
Omega | Drupal 7 Base Theme with HTML5 & 960gs support
by holyverOmega is an evolved implementation of the 960.gs in Drupal supporting HTML5, giving you full control over your layout, advanced region placement and controls, and contextual layouts provided by the Delta and Context modules.
3.4 million page views per day, 92 M per month, one server and Drupal
by holyver (via)In this talk, Khalid of 2bits.com, Inc., Inc will talk about a how to scale a Drupal web site with the following statistics.
3.4 million pages per day peak
92 million page views per month
189,650 page views per hour peak
840,000 visits on peak day
22.96 million visits per month
52,747 visits per hour peak
So far, this is the highest traffic a Drupal site gets that we heard of.
What is amazing is that this web site runs on a single mid range server ...
5 rules to optimize your server - Vancouver Drupal Development, Alfresco Development and iPhone Development from Appnovation
by holyver (via)Here are five rules to help you optimize your Drupal installation, as well as some examples to illustrate how to apply them. Server optimization is a huge field, and it is constantly evolving, but we can to study simple cases to understand more complex ones.
2010
The new face of Drupal - Bartik | Linnovate. Drupal Experts.
by claire_Drupal 7 is going to introduce a lot of improvements, many of them regarding the user experience and user interface. in the past few days one of the greatest (and maybe the last) of these changes was committed - a new core theme, and not just a core theme but a new default theme for Drupal - that means that the mythological Garland, after almost four years, gives way to a new, fresh face for the next Drupal release.
Menu Firstchild | drupal.org
by claire_By default, Drupal 6 requires that you enter a path for each menu link you add/edit from the Menu administration page. There are cases you may want to create a parent item, without any path, that simply links to its first viewable child item. Menu Firstchild provides this functionality.
CKEditor Link - A plugin to easily create links to Drupal internal paths | drupal.org
by claire_This module currently allows to easily create links to Drupal nodes through CKEditor's Link button and dialog. It can be considered as a stable alternative to the experimental and non-recommended Link to content module.
Menu Editor | drupal.org
by claire_Menu Editor enhances the menu editing form with inline text fields for title, path and description, and provides placeholders for new items. This way, it reduces the number of page visits needed to create a site's menu structure, and eliminates the need for dummy nodes. This way, it reduces the number of page visits needed to create a site's menu structure, and eliminates the need for dummy nodes.
Drupal Commons, un réseau social avec Drupal ?
by claire_Drupal Commons est un profil d'installation orienté "réseau social". DC fait un large usage de Organic Groups, qui permet de créer des groupes d'utilisateurs avec une gestion des membres et de l'administration, des contenus à usage d'un groupe déterminé, etc. User_Relationships permet de créer et qualifier des relations entre utilisateurs. Le module Shoutbox fournit un système de chat intégré. Userpoints permet de distinguer les utilisateurs en leur attribuant des points. Heartbeat rend compte de l'activité des utilisateurs (Untel a rejoint le groupe Truc, Unetelle est désormais amie de Machin...). Le couple Messaging + Notifications est également présent.
Activity Dashboard | drupal.org
by claire_This module generates a site "dashboard" type feature that can enable site admins to see some top level statistics for their Drupal site illustrated with visually appealing charts, created with a Silverlight library
Buzzr | Drupal Made Easy.
by claire_Powerful Websites Made Easy. The White House, Sony and The Economist Use Drupal. Now You Can Too.
Views Hacks | drupal.org
by claire_This package contains a set of small Views add-ons that provide useful functionalities. Included are the following modules: Views PHP Access Plugin (views_access_php): Provides a programmable Views access plugin for rapid one-off tasks. Views Filters Auto-submit (views_filters_autosubmit): Auto-submits exposed filters on change. Views Filters Reset (views_filters_reset): Adds a "Reset" button to exposed filters. Views Selective Exposed Filters (views_filters_selective): Restricts exposed filter values to those present in the result set. Views Taxonomy Summary (views_summary_taxonomy): Provides a summary style plugin suitable for displaying hierarchical taxonomies.
Announcing Drupal's 2010 Summer of Code students | drupal.org
by claire_This year's Summer of Code projects focus on integrating Drupal with other APIs, improving and updating popular contributed modules, improving security, and helping to build new functionalities that will help keep Drupal at the cutting edge.
Google Calendar API (GCal) | drupal.org
by claire_This module implements the Google Calendar API. The module is intended to be used by other modules who want to import/export to Google calendars.
Drupal site organization, monitoring, management and best practices: Droptor
by claire_Finally, an easy way to keep all of your Drupal sites secure, tuned and organized.
Table Wizard | drupal.org
by claire_The Table Wizard facilitates dealing with database tables: It allows surfacing any table in the Drupal default database through Views 2. Relationships between the tables it manages can be defined, so views combining data in the tables can be constructed. It performs analysis of the tables it manages, reporting on empty fields, data ranges, ranges of string lengths, etc. It provides an API for other modules to views-enable their tables. It provides an API for importing data into tables in the Drupal default database (automatically doing the views integration above). It is bundled with an implementation of this API, for importing comma- and tab-delimited files.
Best practice for Drupal performance optimization | Acquia Library
by claire_This document covers recommendations for improving the performance of your website built in Drupal. It also contains general recommendations for improving the speed of your site.