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New Relic Real user monitoring hooks for Drupal
If you are using New Relic for performance monitoring a Drupal project, you may have noticed a large discrepency between the browser throughput and...
Upgrade to PHP 5.5 on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
Rapidly install PHP 5.5 on OS X 10.8 by compiling from source, including essential libraries. Follow our step-by-step guide for a quick setup.
Keeping track of page load times in Munin
Monitoring web page load times efficiently using a custom Ruby script for Munin to avoid timeouts and ensure comprehensive resource loading.
Bucket policy for friendly file exchange on Amazon S3
We sometimes need to exchange huge files with our customers and partners (too big to fit within the typical storage limits of Basecamp, or the free...
Puppet Labs Chooses Drupal
Puppet Labs launched a responsive website using Drupal, showcasing advanced features like drag-and-drop GUI and Panels, highlighting Drupal's...
Fixing "no such file" error in Capistrano upload()
Resolving Capistrano upload errors by utilizing the :mkdir option in net-sftp to ensure target directories are created during deployments.
Metal Toad University #8: The Wolf Theme
This session had us finding new images to create a new theme for our site. Once our new wolf images and patterns were created and exported, we went...
Faster Database Backups via Drush! Plus Capistrano Integration
Enhance your Drupal deployment with faster database backups using Drush and Capistrano integration.
Parse / extract server settings from your Capfile
Learn how to parse and extract server settings from Capistrano config files for efficient project documentation and integration with non-Ruby tools.
Simplify your WordPress Deployments
Deploying code to WordPress installations has always been a bit of a struggle. Although there are a few WordPress plugins that help in deployments,...
What is SASS?
You may know about some of the problems that CSS has as a language. There is a lot of repetition. There is a lot of repetition. You may have worked...
Integrating Compass with a Git / Capistrano deployment workflow
When we added the Compass CSS authoring framework to our projects, new wrinkles appeared in the deployment process. Committing the artifacts to Git...
Capistrano authorization How-To
Learn how to set up Capistrano authorization for efficient deployments, manage SSH keys, and troubleshoot deployment issues with this comprehensive...
NTP out of sync?
Is your unix-based system time out of sync? If it is out of sync by more that 1000 seconds, you will need to manually force it back into sync.
Capistrano: Drupal deployments made easy, Part 1
Automate your Drupal deployments with Capistrano for efficient, error-free processes. Learn setup and best practices in our step-by-step guide.
Drupal Deployment Checklist
Drupal deployment checklist covering settings and configurations to ensure optimal performance, security, and functionality for your production site.
Automated CVS checkouts of Drupal Core + Contrib
If you've built out more than a few Drupal projects, you've probably gone through the same song & dance a number of times - find the most recent...
VMWare: Recovering from running out of disk space on the Host machine
Recovering from disk space issues on a VMware host machine involves manually killing VM processes and restarting them to get back to normal...
Adding a directory to subversion, and ignoring the directory contents
Sometimes when committing things to svn you want to commit a directory, but ignore all of the files inside it. Here's how.