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Aaron Winborn

Addison Berry

  • Next steps for Drupal domination

    31 Oct 2009 - 8:19 am
    It has been a while since I've been on radar, but with Drupal 7 fast approaching and Drupal living in...
  • Drupal handbooks IA work begins

    14 Aug 2009 - 1:32 pm
    The top priority in the Drupal documentation roadmap that was published earlier this summer was to reorganize...
  • Drupal 7 docs depend on you

    03 Aug 2009 - 9:28 am
    Drupal 7 is coming and it has a ton of UI changes with the D7UX lovefest that has been going on, in addition...
  • A new movement: WOSdocs

    01 Jul 2009 - 1:37 pm
    I've been on the go so much that I haven't had the mental space to sit down and articulate a lot of the...
  • Need some help: surveys, interviews and recording

    29 Jun 2009 - 1:49 pm
    A few weeks ago I posted a draft Drupal documentation roadmap on Drupal.org. In that post I attached...

Angie Byron

Caleb G

CivicActions

Dale McGladdery

David Norman

  • Druplicon Geektool desktop

    18 Dec 2009 - 9:28 pm
    A couple of the commands used for the Geeklets:
  • Drupal on Snow Leopard

    02 Sep 2009 - 12:40 am
    Drupal 6 probably won't ever work right on PHP 5.3.0, which is what Snow Leopard packs by default. My...
  • My D6 module usage stats

    21 Aug 2009 - 11:13 pm
    I'm reviewing my modules to determine each of their popularity for #D7CX. I also use this window before...
  • D7CX upgrade satellite sprint

    06 Aug 2009 - 1:33 am
    chx is hosting a D7CX upgrade sprint, so Classic Graphics main office at 5901 Northwoods Business Pkwy,...
  • Draft: How to create a pifr 6.x-2 client

    26 Jun 2009 - 12:31 am
    I moved the maintenance of this to http://qa.drupal.org/node/44. This is only here anymore to point you...

Davy Van Den Bremt

Development Seed

Dries Buytaert

Drupal Modules

  • Boxes

    08 Feb 2010 - 8:00 pm
    Boxes module is a reimplementation of the custom blocks (boxes) that the core block module provides....
  • Organic groups LDAP

    08 Feb 2010 - 8:00 pm
    Map LDAP DNs or RDNs to Organic groups. Developed by Egressive with support from Plant & Food Research...
  • Simplenews Content Selection

    08 Feb 2010 - 8:00 pm
    This module allows you to select content from your website and send a newsletter with the selected content. Modules 1....
  • Password Require

    07 Feb 2010 - 8:00 pm
    This is module allows adding password protect to any form in Drupal. For node forms the password protection...
  • Agreservations

    07 Feb 2010 - 8:00 pm
    The agreservations-module is a module to handle reservations of resources on a daily basis. It is thought...

EmmaJane

  • New theming workshops

    18 Jan 2010 - 5:09 pm
    Over and over again the Drupal community has lamented the lack of workshops for designers and very novice...
  • Front End Drupal Intensive January 11 in Vancouver, Canada

    06 Jan 2010 - 10:25 am
    Sometimes the only way to write a proper announcement is to write it in the third person. This way I...
  • Themer Survey

    02 Dec 2009 - 5:27 pm
    I've done a lot of writing and a lot of talking about how to theme Drupal. Even though it's already December,...
  • Haven't I Seen You Before?

    16 Aug 2009 - 4:29 pm
    I recently put together a little brochure-ware site for a new adventure: The Wellness Road Trip. The...
  • Version Control Web sites

    05 Aug 2009 - 2:57 pm
    Over the last year I've been running around to various conferences spreading the word that is Bazaar....

Four Kitchens

Gábor Hojtsy

J-P Stacey

  • Automated backups to S3

    08 Feb 2010 - 3:56 pm
    Simon Willison put together an excellent short-and-simple backup script over a year ago now, and I've...
  • Change of plan at OGN16

    05 Jan 2010 - 4:31 pm
    There's been a change in the speakers for Oxford Geek Night 16 on Wednesday 17 February. We're really...
  • Oxford Geek Night 16 date confirmed

    19 Dec 2009 - 1:08 pm
    After a slightly longer break between Oxford Geek Nights to make room for Christmas and the rest, I'm...
  • Render any block in Drupal 5

    08 Dec 2009 - 5:37 am
    Blocks aren't what you might call "first-class citizens" in Drupal 5 or 6 (or 7, as far as I'm aware)....
  • Basic theme preprocess hooks in Drupal 5

    24 Nov 2009 - 5:23 pm
    One of the useful aspects of Drupal 6's themeing is theme preprocessing. This occurs in between a module...

John Forsythe

Károly Négyesi

  • Do not use github

    04 Feb 2010 - 7:24 am
    If you use git then use gitorious or repo.or.cz or anything that's not github. Reasons: github source...
  • Drupal 8: everything is pluggable

    23 Jan 2010 - 4:17 pm
    In previous Drupals we had a rough version of plugins -- you could load a cache plugin instead of cache.inc...
  • Some Drupal 7 porting tips

    22 Jan 2010 - 4:32 am
    UPDATE/INSERT often can be updated to a single db_merge. Don't forget to ->execute() your db_select/db_insert/etc Themes...
  • Just how big we are?

    15 Jan 2010 - 9:55 am
    Up until now, Drupal tried (and tried hard) to work with every nick-and-dime shared hosting companies....
  • Another growth problem: shrinking amount of core contributors

    29 Dec 2009 - 4:12 pm
    While Drupal 7 is awesome, it's quite clear we have a problem: we do not have enough core contributors....

Kevin Hankens

Kieran Lal

Kristof De Jaeger

Larry Garfield

  • Experts vs. opinions

    24 Jan 2010 - 6:40 pm
    For those who don't know him, Aaron Seigo is one of the leading KDE developers and community leaders....
  • Where do we go from here?

    30 Oct 2009 - 2:19 am
    The "smallcore" debate has heated up again of late, with all its various tendrils. However, I still...
  • Birthday serendipity

    29 Oct 2009 - 10:16 pm
    Apparently, I share a birthday with the Internet. Who knew? Of course, I also share a birthday with...
  • DrupalCon Paris: Drupal grows up

    17 Sep 2009 - 12:51 am
    DrupalCon Paris 2009 is now in the past. As usual there was last minute chaos, lots of people running...
  • DrupalCon: Design Patterns are back

    31 Aug 2009 - 4:50 am
    Just when you thought it was safe to go to DrupalCon, here comes... schedule change! It turns out there...

Leisa Reichelt

Lullabot

Matthew Saunders

Michelle Cox

Neil Drumm

Nick Lewis

pingVision

Ronan Berder

Sacha Chua

Tao Starbow

Top Notch Themes

Wim Leers

  • FOSDEM 2010

    03 Feb 2010 - 10:52 am
    This weekend on Sunday, February 7, we'll have a full day of Drupal talks at the 10th edition of FOSDEM,...
  • Master thesis proposal: "Web Performance Optimization: Analytics"

    03 Dec 2009 - 4:13 pm
    This is the brief version of my actual master thesis proposal, which is attached in PDF format. Introduction My...
  • DrupalCon Paris

    29 Aug 2009 - 1:07 am
    I will be presenting together with Konstantin Käfer on Front End Performance. To be more exact, he will...
  • Key Properties of a CDN

    26 Aug 2009 - 7:58 am
    In this very brief article, I highlight the key properties of CDNs: what differentiates them and which...
  • Improving Drupal: Episodes integration

    25 Aug 2009 - 5:33 pm
    In this article, I explain what was required to integrate the Episodes page loading performance monitoring...