Blogs

As Drupal gains popularity, the need for developers is increasing and consequently so is the need for trainers. Let's make sure that the first point of contact for people to the community is a positive experience by open-sourcing our methods of teaching.

Where we recount the enjoyment that was had by mistakenly thinking that there was a simple solution to our search problem, then stumbling across one of the few cases that seem not to be handled "out of the box" by the Apache Solr module and learn how much fun it is to write your own faceted filters.

Supporting Activity Streams in Drupal is an interesting problem. On the one hand you have the endless possible actions afforded by Drupal and on the other hand you have the necessarily restrictive standard on which to map those actions. Add to that the need to make this as transparent to the user as possible and it becomes a really fun little exercise. In this post we take a brief look at Activity Streams and what some of implications of supporting them in Drupal are.

Does Drupal really have a steep learning curve? If you read the usual CMS comparison posts around the web that seems to be the general consensus. But I don't believe that is entirely fair and, as most things, it is all about relativity - how steep the mountain is depends on what is at the top of the mountain once you get there.

Can Drupal revolutionise its contribution process and tap into the long tail of developers that have little time to contribute but want to help in a meaningful way? A proposal for the Drupalcon San Francisco Developer Summit.