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January Drupal Training in Denver: Turn your Site Up to 11!

Ezra — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:44:44 -0600

This January I'm headed out to scenic Denver, Colorado to co-teach two of three sessions of an Intro to Drupal 6.x class with Growing Venture Solutions. The course is targeted towards people who are new to Drupal and covers several levels of site administration as well as using essential Drupal modules such as Views and CCK (Content Construction Kit), image handling with Imagecache, and creating sophisticated landing pages using Panels. Then we'll cover theming/templating and finally module development, performance and security best practices.
The course happens over three Saturdays, so students can go home (or back to work), tinker around and return brimming with questions and enthusiasm about turning their Drupal sites up to eleven.
If you're thinking of attending, it's best to secure a spot at the pre-2009 discounted rate.
You can read more about the course on the GVS website.

Hope to see you there!
(photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamuraa/1162062936)

Your Questions Wanted: Open Source CMS Panel Discussion

Ezra — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:15:00 -0600

Ultra Light Startups, a New York-based tech entrepreneur's group, is
hosting a panel discussion on Open Source content management systems on Thursday, December 4.

I'll be speaking about Drupal along with experts from Joomla (Donna
Vincent) and WordPress (Steve Bruner). People often ask for comparisons between these projects but it's uncommon to find people who have a depth of familiarity in all three systems together in one place, so this promises to be a unique discussion. The panel will be videotaped and made available online.

In order to facilitate a valuable discussion, I've started a list of suggested discussion questions. I'd like to ask you, fellow Drupalers (and any non-Drupalers), to suggest questions that you think will help highlight the differences between these systems and add value to the discussion. Below is my list of suggested questions, starting with ones that seek introductory information to the platforms:

What kinds of websites/web applications have been built on your platform?
How large is your development community? Approximatley how many installations are there? How many modules/plugins and themes are available?
What license covers the code in your project?

Am I going to Drupalcon 2008?

Ezra — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:43:42 -0600

Am I going to Drupalcon Boston 2008? You can bet your hidndquarters I am.

Benchmarking Authenticated Drupal Users with ApacheBench

Ezra — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:00:00 -0600

The sections of this tutorial are as follows:

Brief background on ApacheBench and performance of Drupal Anonymous vs Authenticated Users
Accessing the cookie containing the Drupal session ID
Passing the session cookie to ApacheBench
Verifying that the Drupal installation being benchmarked recognizes the cookie and is serving authenticated Pages

ApacheBench, also known as 'ab', is a command line program bundled with the Apache Web Server that measures the performance of web servers by making HTTP requests to a user-specified URL. ApacheBench displays statistical information, such as the number of requests served per second and the amount of time taken to serve those requests, that is useful for evaluating (benchmarking) and tuning the performance of a webserver. ApacheBench does a decent job of simulating different types and levels of load on a sever.

Kramer has a Blog

Ezra — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:55:20 -0500

Noah Carton Kramer's blog. A spontaneous project, it was up and running within 30 minutes of purchasing the domain. Of course, it runs Drupal.

Building a Photo Blog

Ezra — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:54:30 -0500

I'm building a photo blog! I started several hours ago, so it's still a work in progress with some oogly exif data, untuned layout and missing features. Check it out in its current state!

OSCMS 2007

Ezra — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:28:29 -0500

I'm at OSCMS 2007! Stay tuned for pictures.