Brad :
If you've implemented a carousel using viewscarousel, you may have wondered how to make the carousel start at a random element. There are several ways to accomplish this and seamlessly start at a random element.
Jeff:
Frank, Irakli and I are arriving in Copenhagen on Monday for this fall’s European DrupalCon - which runs August 23rd - 27th. Phase2 is a bronze sponsor of the event. As always, we are looking forward to meeting as many people as we can, catching up with old friends and sharing in good Drupal spirit with the rest of the community.
Brad :
Many sites have views that are used to generate a large number of sections/pages on the site, and you may want to easily change the number of results without having to edit the view. It's easy to create a settings page that will allow you to configure the number of results.
Josh:
Many javascript libraries, including the almost ubiquitous jQuery, provide an element.ready function. This allows for queuing functions to run when the document or element is ready to receive commands.
Brad :
There are GUI tools that show the performance and statistics of your memcache servers. However, if you just want a quick answer to some simple questions, you can use basic commands and save the time of installing and configuring the tools.
Dave:
Large-scale Drupal implementations inevitably contain lots of content types, involve many users that participate in testing, and thousands upon thousands of nodes. For these reasons, you have to be very diligent from the beginning about how you differentiate test content from real content in order to avoid launching a site with pages full of lorem ipsum (or a photo gallery from your dog's 5th birthday party.)
Irakli:
Drupal Multisite is a powerful and mature tool for creating platform deployments of Drupal-based web-systems. However creating a release structure that allows atomic deployments of individual sites within a multisite is a somewhat less explored problem. Presented blog post describes one such approach that uses Subversion version control and a set of bash scripts for Linux to automate the process.
Jeff:
As one of the very first widely adopted and professionally created Drupal distributions, OpenPublish has been an active growing project now through 2 major releases and over 8 minor releases since we first released it in January of 2009. OpenPublish has had a good run so far in 2010 with lots of exciting developments to share. As its creator and maintainer, Phase2 Technology has invested over 3,000 employee hours into this effort. I hope this post helps explain a bit about why we think that effort has been worth it.
Brad :
If you have a Drupal installation, such as Pressflow, that does not initialize sessions for anonymous users, you may have found that the OpenID module does not work correctly. There is an easy way to fix this without resorting to a core patch.
Tobby :
When building a site in Drupal (or any content management system, really), there are often concerns about how the site will perform. It's fairly easy to take measures to reduce the impact of anonymous traffic on server resources (cacheing, using CDNs, etc). However, much of what Drupal offers is the ability for users to interact with the site far beyond that of a traditional static site. So now you have a complete site built, and you're sure it can handle your anonymous traffic, and you want to test how well your site will perform when users log in and start doing things (such as leaving comments).
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