My question is which track is best? I have a website already built in drupal (actually 5 sites) and know how to add modules. Would the beginners track be a waste of time? Hmm.. - LPH
A presentation on Drupy, by Brendon Crawford, Drypy's lead developer, will be made tonight (Tues, Aug 26th) at the LA Drupal User Group meeting http://bit.ly/ladrupalaug A more complete presentation will occur at DrupalCampLA 2008 on Sep. 13/14, 2008. - Stephen Gornick
“Can someone recommend some books/blogs/other resources on drupal for intermediate users? Especially focussing on a bit of drupal development, some styling, custom content types, etc. Thanks!”
“Anyone know of a module or script to display youtube videos from an RSS feed? This plugin for Wordpress is awesome and I haven't found a comparable one for Drupal http://www.daikos.net/widgets/...”
P.s. I don't want to create individual nodes from the items imported in the feed. I simply want this functionality to be provided within a single node. - Mark Krynsky
Panels solve one very large problem for me: putting mixed content (nodes and views, not just blocks) into a single page, and have it be solely in the context of a single page. If there was a non-panels way to do this beyond "redo your site," I'd stop using them. Otherwise, the issues with using it are "it lets you be stupid" and "it's inelegant," both of which are silly arguments from a practical perspective. - Mark Trapp
I'm just now learning Panels and was wondering if anyone knows of any good guides or tutorials? I'm primarily interested in creating dynamic pages based on passing taxonomy info. I have a feeling I can use Panels to reduce the number of views I'm using. - Mark Krynsky
Congratulations! I'm an SJSU alum - Debbie Faires and I were classmates back when we had classes in, well, classrooms. Where I work we just migrated our website to Drupal, and we also create online learning environments, so this post is very interesting - thanks! - Laura Norvig
oops - wasn't really paying attention - thought Meredith posted this! Thanks, Stephen. - Laura Norvig
The Web stack consists of Web and proxy servers, scripting languages and a database that enables developers to deploy Web applications quickly and easily. Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, Squid, PHP, Ruby, Memcached, and more. http://bit.ly/webstack - Stephen Gornick
“Anyone know about Apache, PHP and MySQL optimization for Drupal? My Drupal site is dominating a 1GB RAM Slice at SliceHost with only 10 sessions active. Any clues?”
Wow, that's crazy. Can you break out the memory usage for Apache and MySQL? - Mark Trapp
Yea, each Apache client is taking about 50MB, and MySQL is taking about 35MB. - Jared
Well, the easiest way to bring down memory usage in Apache is disable Apache modules. Check to see what you have enabled that you're not using. So MySQL is only using 35 MB total? - Mark Trapp
I don't have very many modules enabled. alias, auth_basic, authn_file, authz_default, authz_groupfile, authz_host, authz_user, autoindex, cgi, dir, env, mime, negotiation, php5, setenvif, status - Jared
Also, Drupal is showing multiple sessions for the same user. That could be part of the issue? - Jared
Another thing, Apache clients are supposed to timeout after 15 seconds, but if I watch them, they'll stay active for 2 or 3 minutes. - Jared
That's the WordPress Plugin called FriendFeed comments at work.Allen Stern at http://www.centernetworks.com has a similar function that shows FriendFeed comments only on his drupal site, although I'm not sure what he did to get that working. - Rob Safuto
Okay. I checked the source on Allan's web page. What he's doing is using a Yahoo Pipe at http://pipes.yahoo.com/pathawk... to connect with FriendFeed via their API using JSON. You'll need to add a script to your node template, an example of which you can find in the source of the page at http://www.centernetworks.com/.... - Rob Safuto
let me know if you have any questions about what i did - it's not that great of course but its a start if you look at this story you can see a massive comment stream from both ff and cn :) -- http://www.centernetworks.com/... - Allen Stern
