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Aaron Winborn

Addison Berry

  • Spreading the love and doing the work

    14 Feb 2010 - 7:49 am
    In the past few weeks I have been building myself up to get back on track with my role as Doc Lead in...
  • 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...
  • Drupal Twitter hashtag hack

    18 May 2009 - 8:31 am
    Too many times I have written a post, got it ready to go, set up my Twitter module to tell the world,...
  • Sharing across open source lines

    12 May 2009 - 6:45 am
    Just one month from today I'm going to get three days of hanging out with brilliant folks from a number...
  • Docs Challenge May: Issue cleanup part 2

    01 May 2009 - 10:53 am
    I know that we have done the issue queue work as a challenge already, the very first one in January as...
  • Interview about Doc sprints

    23 Apr 2009 - 10:48 am
    While I was at Drupalcamp Galway, Stéphane (scor) recorded an interview with me about not just the Galway...

Angie Byron

Be Circle

Caleb G

CivicActions

David Norman

  • DRUPAL license plate in NC

    21 Apr 2010 - 9:49 pm
    LOST: owner of a silver Nissan Altima with a DRUPAL license plate. Who are you? I'd like to meet up....
  • DRUPAL license plate

    21 Apr 2010 - 9:39 pm
    DRUPAL license plate outside Dino's Pizza & Pasta in Harrisburg, NC.
  • 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...
  • New D7 feature: logged module changes

    12 May 2009 - 9:30 pm
    When I saw NancyDru's idea to log who installs and uninstalls a module, I had a "duh!" moment. This to...
  • Updated Drupal 7 node editing form

    08 May 2009 - 5:01 pm
    The new Drupal 7 node editing form has changed the former fieldset formatting for displaying authoring,...
  • Node navigator code snippet

    24 Mar 2009 - 5:30 pm
    Create a new block or page with Full HTML input format access. The following javascript will redirect...

Davy Van Den Bremt

Development Seed

Dries Buytaert

Drupal Modules

  • Domain Access Solr Facet

    30 Jul 2010 - 8:00 pm
    Provides a facet for the ApacheSolr Search Integration module which will filter content by domain using...
  • Alchemy

    30 Jul 2010 - 8:00 pm
    The Alchemy module provides several interfaces for analyzing site content via the Alchemy services API. What...
  • Zabbix client for Drupal

    30 Jul 2010 - 8:00 pm
    This module enables a Drupal website to send statistics remote Zabbix server using a locally installed...
  • Taxonomy Token

    29 Jul 2010 - 8:00 pm
    The Taxonomy Token module allows the user to set vocabularies for which there will be created specific...
  • OpenScholar Virtual Site

    29 Jul 2010 - 8:00 pm
    About OpenScholar Virtual Site is a core set of modules used to power and customize a so-called virtual...
  • Functional Behavior Assessment and Analysis

    29 Jul 2010 - 8:00 pm
    This module enables you to use Drupal to create and track students' behavior. It is meant to be a classroom...
  • TranslateThis Button

    28 Jul 2010 - 8:00 pm
    Translate your website into 52 languages The TranslateThis Button is a lightweight Javascript translation...
  • Exposed Filter Data

    28 Jul 2010 - 8:00 pm
    This module provides a themed function called "get_exposed_filter_output()" which print out the values...
  • Multilevel Primary Menu

    28 Jul 2010 - 8:00 pm
    This module allows to embed primary menu in the theme as a tree instead of the first level only. It keeps...
  • Drag & Drop Gallery

    28 Jul 2010 - 8:00 pm
    The Drag & Drop Gallery create a gallery node type that allows you add images to the gallery by dragging...

Drupaler

EmmaJane

  • Artefacts

    25 May 2010 - 10:47 am
    I have the most interesting conversations while at open source conferences. A few weeks ago at CMS Expo...
  • Advanced Layout Techniques at CMSExpo

    05 May 2010 - 10:35 pm
    Today was my second (and final for the conference) presentation at CMSExpo in Chicago. Advanced Layout...
  • Design to Theme: a taste of what's to come

    04 May 2010 - 1:58 pm
    In about two hours I will be giving my Design to Theme (in five simple steps) presentation at CMSExpo...
  • Happy April Fool's Day, here's your free ebook

    31 Mar 2010 - 11:38 pm
    I'm pretty sure that I really hate being pranked on. So this year to celebrate everyone who got pwned,...
  • PHP What? A Call-time pass-by-reference story

    31 Mar 2010 - 2:23 pm
    I'm jumping the gun. Drupal 7 may not be ready for production sites, but I've got a book to write and...
  • 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

Ivan Zugec

John Forsythe

Károly Négyesi

  • So why do I hate git?

    20 Jun 2010 - 12:11 pm
    One can copy-paste the mod_rewrite quotes from the Apache handbook pages verbatin just replacing mod_rewrite...
  • Doxygen standards

    11 May 2010 - 2:07 pm
    Please read the much evolved Doxygen standards. Common mistakes include forgetting a newline before @return,...
  • Put up or shut up

    08 May 2010 - 4:18 am
    If you have not participated in core development then please do not write ill informed, baseless derisive...
  • How to foster contribution?

    30 Apr 2010 - 3:38 pm
    I often lament that new Drupal community members are not like "old" and they are not contributing enough....
  • Moving hooks to the PHP5 era

    11 Apr 2010 - 12:30 am
    Right now we have something like hook_user_logout which is documented in user.api.php and if mymodule...
  • MongoDB: what's to love (and what's not to)

    29 Mar 2010 - 2:34 pm
    Challenge: list the nodes of a user ordered by comment count. Sounds simple but the uid is stored in...
  • To answer some trademark FUD

    28 Mar 2010 - 4:22 pm
    Somebody begun to "protest the Drupal Trademark policy [...] yet the policy requires sites, like this,...
  • Becoming a Drupal coder: a wise career move

    14 Mar 2010 - 7:46 pm
    -- Please help getting the word out by reposting this for various programmer-but-not-Drupal lists groups...
  • Drupal 7 multistep node forms are easy

    07 Mar 2010 - 9:21 pm
    The bane of multistep node forms are validation errors. But Drupal 7 has a cure. Not nice but a cure. Slap...
  • Multiple forms together

    06 Mar 2010 - 10:45 pm
    I have written a Drupal 7 module which allows you to put together any number of forms into one <form>....

Kevin Hankens

Kieran Lal

Kristof De Jaeger

Larry Garfield

  • Moving as metaphor

    14 Jul 2010 - 2:51 am
    A few weeks ago, I and several others helped some friends of ours pack up their apartment into a truck...
  • What do you want from me?

    24 May 2010 - 1:59 am
    One Con down, one more to go. DrupalCon Copenhagen is already taking session proposals. Yoinks! I've...
  • DrupalCon SF: The big time

    16 May 2010 - 4:42 pm
    Well, it's been long enough after DrupalCon for me to survive another conference and a business trip,...
  • #Reality check

    12 May 2010 - 11:56 pm
    I admit it, I'm on Twitter. I have been for a little over a year. I have a fairly low opinion of it...
  • Moving on

    01 Apr 2010 - 1:21 am
    It's been five years since I had a major life change. Five years since I finished grad school, found...
  • How's your OOP?

    22 Mar 2010 - 1:37 am
    Once again, I am slated to present general Object-Oriented techniques at DrupalCon. It's an important...
  • Conference season is upon me!

    18 Mar 2010 - 12:51 am
    Ah, the spring. So many things happen in the spring. Snow melts. Flowers bloom. The Easter Bunny...
  • 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...

Leisa Reichelt

Lullabot

Matthew Saunders

  • Drupalcamp CO - Anatomy of a D7 Sprint

    12 Jul 2010 - 11:25 pm
    I was talking with Doug Green today a little bit about Drupal releases and he reminded me that Dries'...
  • Drupalcamp CO - CHX on FAPI

    12 Jul 2010 - 10:14 pm
    Chx did a session on various field hooks, storage engines, and hooking into entities.
  • Drupalcamp CO - PCI Compliance

    11 Jul 2010 - 10:00 pm
    Rachel Makrucki of the Airforce Academy in Colorado Springs shared her experiences in setting up the...
  • Drupalcamp CO - Web Security

    29 Jun 2010 - 11:45 pm
    Ben Jeavons (coltrane) gave a presentation on basic web security. My notes are below and are based on...
  • Drupalcamp CO -- CCK and Views

    29 Jun 2010 - 11:27 pm
    Doug Vann did a presentation on Views and CCK at Drupalcamp Colorado. I didn't take many notes, but...
  • Drupalcamp CO - Drupal in Prison

    27 Jun 2010 - 6:04 pm
    Rick Nashleanas of Monarch Digital in Colorado Springs did a session on Drupal in Government focusing...
  • Drupalcamp CO -- Using Git

    27 Jun 2010 - 12:09 pm
    David Luhman - luhman.org -- did a presentation on Git. I have included video below, but really you...
  • Drupalcamp CO - Ubercart

    26 Jun 2010 - 6:54 pm
    These are my rapid notes from Ryan Szrama's session on 10 ecommerce tips presentation at Drupalcamp CO....
  • D7 Code Sprint Post Drupalcamp CO

    25 Jun 2010 - 12:52 pm
    I am excited that DrupalCamp CO has nearly come upon us. My busy schedule has made me far less engaged...
  • Examiner.com: Looking For Drupal Examiners

    16 Jun 2010 - 2:07 pm
    Examiner.com is moving to Drupal 7 and has been heavily contributing to the Drupal project. The site...

Michelle Cox

Neil Drumm

Nick Lewis

Ronan Berder

Sacha Chua

Tao Starbow

Top Notch Themes

Wim Leers

  • Drupal 6 CDN integration: a test case

    16 Feb 2010 - 10:19 pm
    In this final article in my bachelor thesis series, I explain how I proved that the work I had done for...
  • CDN integration module 6.x-1.x

    15 Feb 2010 - 11:52 pm
    In this article, I explain the rationale behind the CDN integration module for Drupal 6, which was written...
  • CDN integration module 5.x-1.x

    15 Feb 2010 - 11:34 pm
    In this article, which was in fact written in January-February 2008 (well over two years ago), I explain...
  • File Conveyor: design

    14 Feb 2010 - 10:03 pm
    In this extensive article, I explain the architecture of the “File Conveyor” daemon that...
  • 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...
  • Page loading profiling tools

    24 Aug 2009 - 4:19 am
    In this article, seven distinctly different page loading profiling tools are compared: UA Profiler, Cuzillion,...

Wim Mostrey