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A Call for an Open Source CoverOregon.com
This is a copy of an open letter written to the Governor of Oregon regarding the Oregon health exchange.
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The 2013 Emmys Leverage AWS
When preparing for a big event, it is our job to make sure the general public sees exactly what is expected, and with the help of Amazon Web Service...
Drupal
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...
Database
What I Learned Today: MySQL Shell Commands
This is a quick one that I learned from a co-worker.
AWS
It's still not a F&*$ing iPhone.
So here it is, the post about why I am switching from an Android to an iPhone, with just weeks before the new iPhone 5S release. First let me clarify...
Drupal
Drupal Debugging: Clues from the Database
Have you ever chased a bug down a rabbit hole and spent a few hours down there only to come back up for air thinking "why, oh why does the bug taunt...
Artificial Intelligence
The Successful Digital PM, Part 4: Knowledge
There's no rocket science behind this post. Just like a construction project manager is probably going to want to know a thing or two about...
Database
Metal Toad University #10: Real Time Word Press
In this episode our intrepid adventurers embarked on a quest to install WordPress. I have to admit, this was quite easy and didn't take nearly as...
Artificial Intelligence
Drush pm-download and pm-update: When and Why to Use Each
Drush is a Drupal developers Swiss-army knife.
Drupal
Drupal 7 Tutorial: Customizing Services Input and Output format
Recently I was working with the Drupal services module, and ran into a few hang ups. For my project I needed a rest service that could export xml...
Database
Celery Periodic Tasks: From Installation to Infinity
This is a quick example of how I got Periodic Tasks to work using Celery without Django.
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How (and Why) Google Needs to Invest in Open Source
As more and more people start using the internet, and as websites get increasingly full featured Google continues to see growth in its userbase. Open...
The Cloud
Programming Skills Every Non-Programmer Should Have
I recently came across Rahul Singh's Non-Programming Skills Every Programmer Should Have
Drupal
How to Pass Multiple Values through an Exposed Filter in Drupal Views
I regularly work with Views and recently I have had a few odd needs. One of which was when a user selects an item, that item then disappears from the...
Drupal
Faster Database Backups via Drush! Plus Capistrano Integration
When working with Drupal sites, Drush is your go-to tool. This post is going to focus on the drush sql-dump command. This allows you to export your...
Drupal
Quick Tip: Clean Up Your Drupal Modules Folder
Let's say you inherit a Drupal site and the modules folder looks like this:
Drupal
How to Write Drupal Update Scripts
This is the second part in my two-part series about Drupal update scripts, specifically focusing on using update scri
Drupal
Why You Should Spend the Extra Time to Write Drupal Update Scripts
Drupal update scripts are a great way of automating database updates.
Artificial Intelligence
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,...
Drupal
Using the Drupal Batch API
Recently I was working on a site for a library that had a lot of data that needed to be imported into Drupal as nodes. Each book title, e-book, DVD,...
Database
Using Node and CouchDB to get things done
As I mentioned earlier, I love JavaScript. Today, I'd like to talk about how to use it to get (fun) things done.
Drupal
Avoid Potholes When Deploying Drupal Sites to Media Temple Virtual Private Servers
I recently had occasion to set up a new Drupal site on a dedicated virtual private server on Media Temple (dv 4.0).
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Drupal 7 Deployment Checklist
This list makes sure that we covers our... Ahem, bases. This is an update to the blog post originally written by Dylan Tack, our Lead Drupal Engineer.