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Written by Anonymous on January 26, 2018
Update: This is currently a developing story in the Drupal community, and we will continue to monitor and update this post as we learn more information from Drupal on this issue. Earlier today, it was reported a significant number of Drupal 6 and 7 sites were targeted with what appear to be...
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Written by Anonymous on January 17, 2018
Decoupled Drupal is a topic that's been in larger community conversation for years, and has recently taken center stage with the release and growth of Drupal 8 and its API-first architecture. But what does it all really mean?  What is decoupled Drupal, and how could your business and its specific...
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Written by Anonymous on December 14, 2017
The Drupal community has historically been a bit less than bullish when it comes to the relatively recent growth spurt of the Javascript ecosystem. Most of the Javascript libraries that have made it into Drupal Core have been rather conservative choices that were widely adopted and extremely...
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Written by Anonymous on December 7, 2017
If you've been a web developer for a bit, you're probably familiar with the concept of templating. We pass data to a reusable chunk of HTML (the template), the data are interpolated into the template, and we get a finished product that's ready to present on the front end. Pages on a Drupal site...
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Written by Anonymous on October 26, 2017
At a Drupal meetup earlier this year, I was talking with a Drupal veteran who worked with me on a client project. I told him the client had decided to move their websites from Drupal to WordPress. He was surprised and told me about his another client who had made a move away from Drupal. One of...
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Written by Steve Williams on July 13, 2017
Building real-time features into Drupal is now easier than ever with the integration of the Node.js module. The Node.js module provides an API for socket based polling and pushing of updates to open connected clients. Writing custom modules to create dashboards for real-time monitoring is one way...
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Written by Chad Hester on June 27, 2017
Drupal 6 was initially released in 2008. For reference, Drupal 7 was released in 2011 and the Drupal 8 estimated release is sometime in late-September (subject to change). Because of the effort required to support 3 versions of Drupal at a time, once Drupal 8 is released, Drupal 6 support will...
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Written by Chad Hester on June 10, 2017
With the release of Drupal 8 knocking on the door, many organizations and individuals are considering it for their project. A current estimate suggests a release candidate sometime in late September (subject to change). The question is: Should we use Drupal 8 for our project? As one might...
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Written by Chad Hester on September 22, 2015
2bits has a great article explaining the theory behind tuning your Apache server's MaxClients directive. It explains how to optimize this setting for your server's available memory based on this simple equation: (Total Memory - Operating System Memory - MySQL memory) / Size Per Apache process. The...
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Written by John Florez on August 21, 2015
When you decide that you want to work as a software developer, there are generally two options for how you want to do it: freelancer or employee. Deciding which direction is best suited for you depends on numerous factors. Freelancing brings with it independence; you’re your own boss, you set your...
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