Drupal Love

This video presentation shows some interesting aspects of the Form API in Drupal 7:

• build dynamic forms without JavaScript
• dynamically display sections
• add new inputs
• search box as an autocomplete input

[…] there is a really cool video that demonstrates how the structured data that is available in many Drupal deployments […] can be exposed and leveraged using RDFa semantic data. The video shows deep searches of Drupal data using Yahoo! SearchMonkey and also some visual navigations of this linked data.

(Source: newtechpost)

A presentation of the unoffical Ubercart successor “Drupal Commerce”.

The article includes a list of Drupal modules that are useful to themers as well as third-party tools that can make the job faster and easier.

[…] I’d like to […] show how the hype cycle affects the Drupal community — particularly core developers — during the development lifecycle of a major release.

[…] one issue that remains a constant pain point in the community is dealing with core and module CSS. I think we all agree that it’s broken, but there are two completely opposite views on how to go about fixing this problem. There are those that want to get rid of it altogether, and those that want to fix it at the source. […] I’m firmly in the “fix it” camp, and I’m going to take this opportunity to explain why, and also share what I think can be done about the situation.

(Source: gramos1984)

PDF which gives a quick overview of variables and template files used by the PHPTemplate theme engine in Drupal 7.

(Source: morethanthemes)

Drupal 7 has introduced several new techniques that allow you far greater flexibility and control in the scripts you can have on your Drupal site’s pages.

(Source: morethanthemes)

 XTND.US announced a plug-in for integrating Drupal into Eclipse IDE.

(Source: morethanthemes)

The app store […] enables website owners to add functionality simply by selecting an app and adding it to their SubHub website. […] Any developer can submit an app to the SubHub app store to be made available to SubHub’s growing network of website owners.

Opcode Cache, MySQL, Apache 

(Source: morethanthemes)

gerrybot:

Nice little article about how Drupal can work seamlessly on mobile devices. Worth a read if you build sites using this CMS and want to tailor the experience for iPhone and other mobile visitors.

In this video Erik Webb, consultant at Acquia, speaks about the best practices when deploying Drupal.

Just to be clear, the purpose of this post is to explain why we feel a Drupal-based website has advantages over Wordpress for many larger web sites we design and develop .

Drush simply put is a command line utility specifically for Drupal. It can help you install modules, download modules, uninstall modules and much more all without even opening a web browser. It also cuts down on development/upgrade time significantly.