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Written by John Florez on August 13, 2013
Making the jump from freelancer to business owner is never an easy step. It's a decision riddled with fear, doubt and uncertainty. But despite these challenges, there are enormous advantages to establishing a multi-person organization versus a one-person operation. One of the biggest shortcomings...
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Written by Chad Hester on August 6, 2013
The Drupal community is a great educator for the platform.  On July 26th and 27th I was happy that I could attend my first CapitalCamp:  A two-day, education-packed event held at George Washington University in Washington D.C., all for $20.  My wife, Shelley, also happens to be ramping up her web...
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Written by Nina Samberg on August 1, 2013
A few tips on managing the dreaded B-word. If you work on tech projects in any capacity then I’m pretty sure that one of your least favorite topics is “the budget”. You are not alone. There are many complex reasons that sticking to “the budget” is challenging to say the least. As someone who...
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Written by Jonathon Whitener on August 1, 2013
I've been a professional Drupal developer for over 6 years now. In that time, I've seen a wide variety of projects come across my desk. These days, a healthy portion of my day to day activity is being the technical sales person / solutions architect on sales calls, RFP responses, timelines, and...
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Written by Anne Easterling on July 24, 2013
As our name proclaims, Drupal is the tool of choice for developers here at Drupal Connect. If you’re new to Drupal, the technical language might be confusing. Here are a the most important words in “Drupal-speak” to help you feel more comfortable when you start working with your new site. Nodes...
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Written by Mike Crittenden on April 15, 2013
Drupal's upgrade mantra has always been "we will break your code but we won't break your data" and for that reason, Drupal core and contrib maintainers typically spend a lot of time and effort in providing upgrade paths for your data so you can theoretically just run the upgrade script and update...
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Written by Mike Crittenden on March 11, 2013
So your Drupal site doesn't seem to be sending any email. Bummer. Here are some steps to debug the issue you're having. Step 0: Check your spam folder As always with email related issues, step 0 should be to check the junk folder. You can save yourself a lot of debugging. Step 1: Test email...
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Written by Mike Crittenden on March 7, 2013
Converting an existing Drupal site to MongoDB All the cool kids lately are using MongoDB field storage to scale their Drupal sites. That’s all fine and dandy if you use it from the get go since that’s what it’s made for, but converting an existing Drupal site to it can be a bit of...
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Written by Tim Loudon on October 26, 2012
Trekk Beta 3 Release Drupal Connect is happy to announce the release of Trekk Beta 3! This new release has been updated to Drupal 7.16 and includes improvements to the Trekk Client module, which makes it even easier to write custom clients. You can read more about Trekk and download this latest...
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Written by Brian Craigie on October 18, 2012
Overview Merkleinc.com is a corporate site for a large international company. The focus for this project was to pickup where the previous development company left off and to bring the project to completion. The main points of focus during the push to deployment where maintainability,...
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