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.
Money CCK field
For one of the projects I’m currently working on, we needed to be able to store monetary values. This seems utterly simple at first, but there are many details that need attention.
Handy Drupal command-line shortcuts
Add these lines to your ~/.bash_profile if you’re using the Bash shell: