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News, interand tips about Drupal and Open Source from the Lullabot Team

Command Line Basics: Symbolic Links

This video shows how to use the magical symbolic link, or symlink. These are basically a handy *nix way to create shortcuts. They come in particularly handy if you want to organize code for your websites outside of the web server's document root and that ...
2 weeks ago

Drupal Voices 75: Bevan Rudge on Civic Actions and Drupal in New Zealand

Bevan Rudge has been a Drupal developer and engineer at Civic Actions and talks about the structure of Civic Actions and challenges and benefits of being spread out across many different time zones. Bevan also talks about the Drupal scene in New ...
3 weeks ago

Drupal Voices 74: Katherine Druckman on Managing the Linux Journal Website

Katherine Druckman is the sole "webmistress" for the Linux Journal's Drupal site. She talks about the evolution of managing the site, including recently incorporating version control and starting to build out more and more features as their needs ...
3 weeks ago

Liza Sabater on Drupal Site Building and Power Blogging

Liza Sabater is a Drupal Site Builder and active blogger who runs both Culture Kitchen and The Daily Gotham. She talks about being a non-module developing, site builder and the role of technical adviser to non-technical clients. And she also talks about ...
3 weeks ago

Drupal Voices 72: Simon Hobbs on the Evolution of his Drupal shop

Simon Hobbs (aka "sime") talks about the evolution of his Drupal shop Em Space based in Melbourne, Australia. Specifically, he talks about the shifts in job descriptions and challenges of running a small Drupal development shop. He also talks about the ...
3 weeks ago

Drupal Voices 71: Joeri Poesen on DrupalCon Paris & the French Drupal scene

Joeri Poesen of AF83 was one of the organizers of DrupalCon Paris, and talks about the process of organizing the conference in coordination with the French Drupal Association. Joeri talks about the French Drupal community and some of the sites being ...
1 month ago

Drupal Voices 70: Jeff Eaton on Token in core

Jeff Eaton talks about the third most popular contributed module in Drupal: the Token module. Jeff talks about the architectural changes necessary in order for Token to be committed and included into Drupal 7. A lot of the changes will also eventually be ...
1 month ago

Drupal Voices 69: Karoly "chx" Negyesi on his Drupal core work

Károly Négyesi, better known as "chx", talks about some of his motivations and work that he's done on Drupal core. At the time of this publishing, Károly has participated in over 169 pages worth of Drupal issues over the past five and a half years -- ...
1 month ago

Lullabot Podcast 80: Top 40 Drupal Modules Revisited

Angie Byron, Jeff Eaton, Nate Haug, Kent Bye, and Jeff Robbins discuss the latest Drupal news and then revisit the Drupal Top 40 podcast, this time with a list of 50+ "must have" Drupal modules. Enjoy this epic 2 hour podcast! read more
1 month ago

Podcast 79: Drupal 7

Angie Byron, Nate Haug, Karen Stevenson, and Jeff Robbins discuss the new features of Drupal 7 as well as the latest Drupal news. read more
1 month ago

Command Line Basics: Compression and Archiving

This command line video covers the three most common commands for compressing and archiving files, including how to get them back out again. Most commonly you first hit the need for these when you download a file and need to get it uncompressed. We'll ...
2 months ago

Drupal Voices 68: Jeff Miccolis and Alex Barth on Open Atrium and the Features Module

Jeff Miccolis and Alex Barth talk about the latest work on their Open Atrium distribution, and the Features module. Development Seed has been on the cutting edge of dealing with making deployment of module configurations easier from different development ...
2 months ago

Drupal Voices 67: Eric Gundersen on Mapping, Open Source in Government, and Features

Eric Gundersen is the President of Development Seed, which Eric describes as a hybrid between a International Development organization and an IT shop -- quite a unique combination. Development Seed is at the heart and center of the Washington, D.C. ...
2 months ago

Drupal Voices 66: Jimmy Berry on the Drupal Test Framework

Jimmy Berry (aka boombatower) is the Drupal 7 Testing Subsystem Maintainer and maintainer of testing.drupal.org. Testing has become an integral part of the core Drupal development process as Drupal 7 has adopted a test-driven development model, which ...
2 months ago

Drupal Voices 65: Konstantin Kafer on Optimizing Javascript and CSS

Konstantin Käfer (aka kkafer) gives an overview of his Drupalcon Paris talk on optimizing the front-end Javascript and CSS -- including some YSlow tips. Konstantin also talks a bit about his Support File Cache module that allows additional front-end ...
2 months ago

Drupal Voices 65: Konstantin Kafer on Optimizing Javascript and CSS

Konstantin Käfer (aka kkafer) gives an overview of his Drupalcon Paris talk on optimizing the front-end Javascript and CSS -- including some YSlow tips. Konstantin also talks a bit about his Support File Cache module that allows additional front-end ...
2 months ago

Drupal Voices 64: Narayan Newton on Drupal.org Performance and Scalability

Narayan Newton is a database administrator who has been a long-time member of the Drupal.org infrastructure team since the time that he was a student at Oregon State University's Open Source Lab. OSUOSL hosts a number of open source projects, but they ...
2 months ago

Drupal Voices 63: David Strauss on Performance, Scalability, and Pressflow Drupal Distribution

David Strauss from Four Kitchens talks about the special patched version of Drupal that he has been maintaining that runs the Drupal.org website. Drupal.org is the hub of activity for the Drupal community, and probably the most active community that is ...
2 months ago

Podcast 78: Drupal Screwups and Common Mistakes

Addi Berry, Angie Byron, Jeff Eaton, Karen Stevenson, and Jeff Robbins talk about their own screwups as Drupal newbies and common mistakes often seen when creating Drupal sites. The podcast includes a long list of common site building, coding, and Drupal ...
2 months ago