Drupal
How to Add Theme Settings for Drupal 7
You know that list of checkboxes on the theme settings page that let you turn on and off parts of the theme like the logo or slogan?
Drupal
Deadline for Google Code-In quickly approaching!
Quick summary for those out of the loop about GCI: We define bite-sized programming tasks, Google comes in and finds people who want to do them, we...
Artificial Intelligence
The Survey For People Who Make Websites, 2010
The annual Survey for People Who Make Websites from our friends at A List Apart has gone up, and I encourage you to take ten minutes to parti
Drupal
Faster 404s with Drupal and ImageCache
Drupal generates nicely styled 404 pages that are easy to customize. And since 404 responses can be served from the page cache, the performance hit...
Artificial Intelligence
New York Times Claims HTML5 is a "Pandora's Box" of Privacy Risks
Alarmist rhetoric from news organizations about the web is nothing new, but today's front-page headline on the New York Times still caught my eye: "
Drupal
URL Shorteners Must Die
URL shorteners (such as bit.ly and tinyurl) have been called the "herpes of the web". Beyond just link-rot, a public shortening service is per se an...
Artificial Intelligence
What Makes HTML5 so Great?
When the W3C started working on HTML again in 2007, they posted a set of guiding principles for the new version, emphasizing compatibility
Drupal
Using JSONP Safely
Learn how to safely implement JSONP in Drupal, avoid common security flaws, and understand its limitations for better cross-domain requests.
Drupal
Playing Drupal the card game the Drupal way
Now that NodeOne is running out of Drupal the Card Game I feel like it's time to introduce my version of the game rules which I believe are actually...
HTML & CSS
optimizeLegibility does not work with @font-face
Recently, twitter was buzzing with news of a CSS technique called
Git
Mechanizing Git bisect: Bug hunting for the lazy
Learn how to automate bug hunting using Git bisect, a powerful tool that helps efficiently identify flawed commits in a project's history.
Drupal
Running Drupal Secure Pages behind a proxy
Learn how to configure the securepages module in a Drupal SaaS application behind an SSL-terminating proxy, ensuring secure connections without...
Drupal
What's in a framework, experiences from Rails and Drupal
I've now been working professionally in Drupal for a year and have learned a lot about it; I have some patches into contrib but I've not really done...
Drupal
Semantic Views is Awesome
Like any Drupal themer, I've done my share of grumbling about the frequently ridiculous level of nested divs with dozens of classes.
Drupal
How To Write Multibyte Safe Code With Drupal
Learn how to write multibyte safe code in Drupal with key functions and best practices for handling UTF-8 in a multilingual, multi-site environment.
Drupal
A JMeter test plan for Drupal
Learn how to execute a comprehensive JMeter test plan for Drupal, including anonymous browsing, authenticated browsing, editing, search, and login...
Drupal
Nesting Views like a Mecha-Eagle
As you have probably figured out, I love views. I love teasing out little features that are completely buried and obscure.
Drupal
Making your clients love Drupal's menu system as much as I love candy
NOTE: Apologies for the gap, I said I would post on Monday but well, I decided to get married instead. So there.
Drupal
Plotting your load test with JMeter
Learn how to use the JMeter load testing tool. It comes with a built-in graph listener, which allows you to watch JMeter do, well... something. While...
Drupal
How We Upgraded Metal Toad to HTML5 and Drupal 7
Our new site design is live, so if you're reading this in a feed reader, please click on through!
Drupal
A Git + Drupal Primer
Now that the Drupal community's migration to Git is in full swing, it's a great time to switch your own projects as well. Curious? Perhaps you saw...
Drupal
Do your clients send you presents? If not, maybe we can figure it out together, lets talk about D7UX.
Learn how D7UX aims to revolutionize Drupal's user experience, making clients love their websites and developers push UX boundaries.
Drupal
Drupal snippets #1 (Views exposed filters, F5 tweaks)
Quick tips for Drupal developers on views exposed filters, taxonomy term order, and optimizing CDN caching with F5 load balancers. Enhance your...
Drupal
First Thoughts of Drupal- Part 2
Continuing on with the previous topic of essentially “what is Drupal?” we move on to the discussion of PHP and its importance in being able to build...
Drupal
First thoughts of Drupal
Like any good Gen-Y-er, knowing I would be starting a job at a web development company that specialized in Drupal technology, my first step was to...