FOSDEM 2009
I went to FOSDEM on Sunday.
Improving Drupal's page loading performance
I’ve posted the slides to SlideShare already, but more will be added soon! :)
FOSDEM, DrupalCon DC and more!
I’ve got so much exciting good news that I don’t even know where to begin!
syncvsvn: synchronize CVS working copy with SVN working copy
I keep all my Drupal sites up-to-date by updating a single Drupal core instance and one install profile.
Bachelor thesis on Drupal's page loading performance
I’ve alluded to it before, but now it’s also been officially approved: I’ll be doing my bachelor thesis on Drupal!
How much is too much?
So, university has started again. We have to pick “broadening courses”, I chose economy courses (macroeconomics and operational research).
Another awesome DrupalCon!
It’s over. My second DrupalCon. DrupalCon Szeged 2008.
AHAH helper module
AHAH-powered forms were virtually impossible in Drupal 5 (see the note though).
Drupal.behaviors + jQuery: multiple buttons with the same name
While working for Mollom, I faced the problem of needing multiple buttons with the same name.
Working at Mollom!
As some of you may already know, I’m working for Mollom now (summer position). The reasons for that should be obvious:
What you can expect soon…
I’ve been very quiet lately, which was especially noticeable on Drupal.org.
Mollom: spam killer minus the annoyance
I’m late to the Mollom announcing party, because I was on a
Hierarchical Select 2: the developer perspective
The API of the previous version of HS was a beast. Well, not the API, but the implementations.
Hierarchical Select 2
For those who don’t know Hierarchical Select yet, or HS in short, this is a module that provides a new form element.
The Drupal bank card!
At the end of 2007, my bank offered free personalized bank cards, meaning that you can put a photo on it.
Drupal 6 released!
Drupal 6 has been released! So … what’s new, what got better and what became easier?
Battle plan for Drupal 7: performance
My battle plan for Drupal 7 is simple: get as many performance improvements or performance-improvement-enablers from my Drupal page loading
CSS sprite generator open sourced!
I already mentioned the CSS sprite generator in my article on
Improving Drupal's page loading performance
Google dominates the search engine market for a large part thanks to its spartan, no-bells-nor-whistles interfaces. But also thanks to its incredible speed (which is partially thanks to that spartan interface, of course). Since you’re reading this article, you’re probably a Drupal developer. It’s pretty likely that you’ve had some visitors of your Drupal-powered web site complain about slow page load times. It doesn’t matter whether your server(s) are shared, VPSes or even dedicated servers. Visitors that live abroad – i.e. far from where your servers are located – will face the same performance issues, but at even worse scales.This article is about tackling these issues.
TextMate command to look up functions at api.drupal.org
Is it also for you a routine to look up the documentation for Drupal hooks at api.drupal.org?
CVS diff with new files: fakeadd
Ever been disgruntled by the fact that you can’t do a cvs diff with new files, because you haven’t got write access on a Drupal contrib module’s CVS repository and th
New module: Hierarchical Select
Almost 3 weeks two months ago now, I have released the Hierarchical Select module.
Post-Pre-DrupalCon Social
Last night we had the Pre-DrupalCon Social near La Rambla. For me, it were a lot of new faces (it’s my first DrupalCon after all).
New in Panels 2: Mini Panels and Panel Styles
A couple of weeks ago, I agreed to work on the Panels Mini module, which would become part of the second version of Earl
Help Stefan Nagtegaal, Drupal core theme designer, get a new iMac
Everybody recognizes Drupal 5’s shiny default theme. Because you can create a custom version just by choosing colors, it’s used at hundreds, if not thousands of Drupal sites.