Drupal

Summing up day 3 – the last day at the conference for us. You can also check out day one and day two.

10:00  Lesser known Drupal 7 (link)
Queues

Job queue API
working queues (on cron run)

There also seems to be backport of this for D6.
implementations of queues:

sql (in core)
beanstalkd (contrib)

Pluggable caches
In drupal 6 you could swap the [...]

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Here is a quick update of our second day at Drupalcon Copenhagen. See also the posts about day one and day three.

10:00 How Earth day handled 80 million hits in 2 days (link)

don’t use statistics module (additional sql queries)
watch out with apache solr search
use drupal 7 if you don’t want headaches with high performance sites [...]

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This week, our team arrived from the Netherlands by car and plane in Copenhagen, Denmark. We are attending DrupalCon and here is a overview of our  day one. You can also read about day two and day three.

9:00 Drupal distributions Do’s en Don’ts (link)
Presented by one of the maintainers of Open Atrium.
Some topics:

install profiles
Exportables (ctools)
Kit specification [...]

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I while ago, I wrote about the developments of the media library in Drupal 7. And while the release of Drupal 7 is only months away, there is still a high demand for a similar solution in Drupal 6.
The media module for Drupal 7 aims to provide a unified field which allows you to use [...]

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There are many ways to build functionality into a Drupal site. Take a sitemap for example. A typical ‘page’ which is often one of the standard elements in a website design. You could say, we’ve got the sitemap module for that, and in most cases it does the job. But wait a second, do we [...]

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