Today was spent working on creating a Drupal 6 version of a custom Drupal 5 module as part of a Drupal upgrade project. This module is similar to the image_attach module that is a contrib module package with the Image module. The difference is that the module allows you to designate categories for images by content_type and allows for the upload, selection, removal and ordering of images in each “image category”. Read the rest of this entry »
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This video is from Atlanta Drupal User Group (ADUG) member Kent Lester, and his presentation on Open Publish – the Drupal distribution created by Phase2 Technology.
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We have a few sites that exist on a MediaTemple DV 3.5 server. We’ve long been concerned about the lack of performance we are getting on this DV versus sites on a smaller Linode.com DV. We are not here to debate that today.
What we have done is to install APC on the MediaTemple DV in order to improve performance to some degree by taking advantage of op_code caching. Now, this is not a silver bullet for performance folks. This is just one piece of a total tuning exercise. Be forewarned.
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Here’s a quick fix. We have a site that has been through a number of migrations, moves and upgrades. We use the Admin module that provide a nice UI for site administration. Somewhere along the way, the admin menu items got completely hosed.
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We recently began testing the installation profile for Drupal called OpenPublish. The good folks at Phase 2 Technology have opened this installation profile (distribution) up for all to use with some key features for the semantic web. This post is not to go over or compares features with other similar distributions. Instead this is more about how to get the parent feed title into the template for a node created from a feed-item with the feedapi module.
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Are you a tattler? No, not the kind mom told you not to be, but rather the Tattler application from Phase2 Technology.
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Yup, I learned this week just how well Drupal can fly. Well, maybe not measured in feet above the earth but certainly in terms of response time. Come take a look at a new setup were are testing out.
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I was working on a Drupal site and decided that a “related content” block was needed. Since this site has already been up and running for some time, manually reference other nodes would be painstaking. What I needed was the ability to show related node based upon the content of the node. Read the rest of this entry »
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