My blog has been suffering alongside my work with DrupalCamp Gothenburg. It's hard work since we're only two guys making it happen this year, and there's a lot done and more to do. It brings me great pleasure to say that we just passed a major mile-stone when releasing the website for DrupalCamp Gothenburg. It's a new take on camp-sites, at least what I can gather. This site wont disappear after a couple of years, when the community looses interest in it. This site will not only promote this year's camp, it will also act as a collection of the earlier sites, tying sessions together, acting like a "blast from the past" - one site to rule them all. Why, you… Read more...
Fact: Using the Update module for collecting data has been the standard since Drupal 6.0.Another fact: Sites not using that module aren't submitting usage statistics to drupal.org.Yet another fact: Third-party monitoring services are rendering the Update module rather useless.Result: Misleading statistics on Drupal core and module usage. When Drupal 6.0 was released the Update module started submitting statistics to Drupal.org, a great initiative. Though, you can disable this module for different reasons, thus creating misleading statistics on Drupal.org. The same goes for Drupal 7, you can disable the module there as well. Third-party services rendering… Read more...
For long, I've been using Droptor to get an overview of all my Drupal sites and it's a powerful service that not only gives you an overview but also statistics of your content and several checklists (security, performance, SEO and health) to see how your website is doing. It's great and much needed, but there isn't happening a lot at Droptor. I've submitted several suggestions on how to improve their service and they have applauded them, saying that these suggestions will come in newer versions of Droptor but then ... nothing. If you, on top of the lack of evolution of the service, add a couple of lengthy outages, and a complete silence on twitter, their… Read more...
When I'm working on screencasts or guides of some sort, either for a customer or for my own website, screenshots are an important part of the process. To make my work easier, I've made some changes to the workflow when it comes to screenshots and I thought I might as well share them with you. Instead of having the screenshots ending up on the desktop of my mac, I've done some changes that saves the screenshots to a certain folder. To make this happen you must enter a command in the Terminal program that ships with your mac (or a similar terminal program). Supposing that we want all screenshots to go into a dedicated folder called Screenshots within the… Read more...
So you're a regular at drupal.org, and feel right at home in groups.drupal.org, Drupal Answers is practically your own living room and Google's results on "drupal" is your best friend. Well, have you tried these resources of Drupal knowledge...? DropBucket Ever had a great line of code you save and re-use over and over again? Well, you're not alone. Not at all. And with DropBucket you can share this with the rest of the Drupal Community, and get some karma along the way. At DropBucket you can find snippets to use with Drush, making modules, theming, you name it. The service is created by Tim Kamanin (TimOnWeb Drupal developer).Visit http://dropbucket.org… Read more...