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Backdrop, forking Drupal

Posted by Jonathan Dale on September 18, 2013

"In Open Source Software, forking is considered a feature. Nevertheless, the Drupal community has generally frowned upon forking. We’ve been a fairly cohesive community. We work together, share what we’re doing (even while we compete with each other), collaborate with each other, offer help, contribute patches, all in support of the commons we love: Drupal." --Laura Scott

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Six simple tips to improve Drupal for your content managers

Posted by JD Collier on September 11, 2013

During a website project there are distinct phases that allow us to plan for the various audiences of a website. In this process, I have often seen an audience omitted: content managers. We need to ensure we are also weighing the needs and expectations of the content manager when we build a site. Remember content managers are an audience too.

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Sandbox module: BarTables

Sandbox Module: BarTables

Posted by Jonathan Dale on July 30, 2013

Nearly 20 years ago Dave Raggett produced a document outlining proposed features for HTML+ which included one of the first ever references to tables. Since that time, tables have been used for both the display of data and controlling the layout of pages.

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Testing checklist for a Drupal website launch

Testing checklist for a Drupal website

Posted by JD Collier on July 09, 2013

When building a Drupal website, you need to ensure you have thoroughly tested the site before you turn it over to your client. If a client discovers a significant issue, it degrades their trust and can cost sales if the problem is enough to block a website visitor's ability to interact with the site.

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Architecting Drupal performance

Architecting Performance

Posted by Jonathan Dale on July 02, 2013

One of the chief complaints from new Drupal users tends to relate to performance. Anyone attempting to run modern web applications will often find that they can only handle a small amount of traffic before the server and the site begin to collapse.

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Google Drops Chrome Frame — What Do We Do Now?

Posted by JD Collier on June 27, 2013

We have depended on Google Chrome Frame to help us direct website visitors on older browsers to modern alternatives. Specifically, we use the Drupal Chrome Frame module to quickly implement this functionality.

Google has announced they are retiring Chrome Frame January 2014.

Now what?

I really don't want to do nothing—I don't want visitors on old browsers to just see a broken site.

The Drupal community already has an answer (actually, this module has been around for over a year). After some research, we are trying out jReject.

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DrupalCon Portland Group Photo

DrupalCon Portland: It's About the Community

Posted by Jonathan Dale on June 11, 2013

While DrupalCon Portland ended nearly three weeks ago, some of us are just now decompressing from the experience. Spending a week with 3,300 attendees learning about and contributing to Drupal was both inspiring and instructive.

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Everplans: Behind the Curtain

Posted by Jonathan Dale on May 07, 2013

Everplans.com is a website meant to help people prepare for and deal with death. The previous iteration of their site presented numerous technical challenges, making it difficult for their team to achieve their goals. It became Digett's job to give Everplans a website that works for, not against, its users and administrators. 

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Drupal 8 meets Symfony

Continuous Innovation with Drupal 8

Posted by Jonathan Dale on March 20, 2013

When I began using Drupal five years ago, Drupal 6 had just been released and closely resembled a custom-built solution I was using at the time. At the same time, I had also evaluated Symfony 1.1 and determined that it didn't quite meet my needs. Little did I know that five years later I would be using both.

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