I've been away from full time Drupal development for a couple of years and have recently returned, this time making a commitment improve my understanding of core. There's a lot of information out there on Drupal caching, but I found much of it to be fragmented and outdated (Drupal 6). I wanted to provide a more comprehensive look at Drupal 7's core caching, explaining how some of this stuff is actually working under the hood.
Tags: Drupal, Drupal Planet, Performance
I recently started on a project that involves migrating some data from a legacy app & database into Drupal. The old application is a collection of PHP scripts that basically just generate forms, accept data, insert said data into the database, and output it on a website. Pretty simple stuff - there's not a whole lot going on. It was developed long before many of the popular CMS's and frameworks came to be, and probably before people really started paying attention to the character encoding of their data.
Tags: Drupal, encodings, Drupal Planet
I write quite a bit of Ruby scripts that run at scheduled intervals via cron, and need a way to monitor their output easily. Ruby has a few popular logging solutions, including one that is part of the standard library, that can be fairly easy to integrate into your script.
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This is a small release. A lot of people have been having trouble with the carousel not loading properly, and I'm sure this is because of the image preloader. The carousel has always worked by first attempting to forcefully load all of the images before initializing. This is a well known difficulty within the javascript community. I thought I had a pretty solid preloader finally figured out, but alas people continue to have issues with it.
Tags: Waterwheel Carousel
Managed to get out three updates to the Waterwheel Carousel this weekend. I'm working towards getting this carousel to replace the Feature Carousel - it doesn't make sense for me to maintain both of them when they are already fairly similar.
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Tags: Waterwheel Carousel