Drupal 7

How does caching work in Drupal?

published by Albert Skibinski on Wed, 2012-01-18 10:15
Question

In my experience, there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding how Drupal caching works. I'm not talking about advanced caching mechanisms like Varnish, APC or memcache here, I'm talking about the core Drupal caching: page cache and block cache which are available in Drupal 7 core. Drupal 6 is similar but works a but differently because page caching was simplified for Drupal 7 (e.g. aggresive mode is now a available as a settings.php var) and the entire system also has become pluggable.

SCRUM driven Drupal development

published by Albert Skibinski on Sun, 2011-06-19 13:20
scrum drupal development agile
Scrum is an agile process that allows to focus on delivering the highest business value in the shortest time and is quickly gaining popularity in the Drupal world. Here are my impressions on our first project using SCRUM.

Drupal 7.0 is here!

published by Albert Skibinski on Thu, 2011-01-06 21:44
Drupal 7
Drupal 7.0 was released on wednesday 4th of january 2011, after three years of work by thousands of people all over the world. Instead of telling you about how awesome it is, check out an overview of media coverage and buzz on the web.

Migrated to Drupal 7!

published by Albert Skibinski on Sun, 2010-12-12 23:39
Architects
Drupal 7 release client 2 came out yesterday, so we thought it might be a good time to get our hands dirty. Our old blog was still in Wordpress so it was about time we migrated it to Drupal, and along the way do a quick redesign based on the new default theme Bartik.

Drupal blocks as Edge Side Includes

published by Albert Skibinski on Mon, 2010-11-22 09:00
Drupal blocks as Edge Side Includes
Edge Side Includes (ESI) are a way to tell your reverse proxy (e.g. Varnish) that some parts of the page should get some special attention. For example a shorter expire time (TTL) or if they should be cached by USER, PAGE or by ROLE. If you know your site well enough, you can provide some advanced caching for authenticated users this way.

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