Drupal 7 + memcached + APC + NGINX + PHP5-FPM + Squeeze Optimization
By default, Drupal comes with a pretty extensive caching and aggregation system which affords even basic users the possibility of using what used to be advanced methods for improving their site performance. Unfortunately, at some point these built-in methods are going to fall short, especially when a site has thousands of records and is displaying […]
Should you build a custom entity in Drupal 7?
Along with a host of other new features, there was a major structural change between Drupal versions 6 and 7. This concept is known as the entity. Drupal 6 developers were/are intimately familiar with the three major parts of architecture – nodes, taxonomies, and users. With the advent of the entity, these building blocks need to […]
Drupal 6 with UberCart / UberPOS – A Love-Hate Relationship?
As most techies and programmers have heard, the Drupal CMS is an extremely flexible, dynamic, scaleable, and extendable platform. However, when it comes to running e-Commerce, the field is filled with competing systems that challenge the Drupal framework (Magento, osCommerce, OpenCart, Spree, Zen Cart, etc.) and push it to some possibly unforeseen limits. The question is, […]
Using VM Ware for Web Development
A web developer, especially one who focuses on Drupal, has to have a stable platform on which to work in order to be the most productive. After many years of struggling to find the right combination of hardware manufacturer, operating system, software, integrated development environment (IDE), and server operating system, VM Ware came to the […]
ffmepg and html5 Video – Avoiding Flash Technology
As indicated by Saimon, a lot of people have wondered how they could use ffmpeg to produce videos that can leverage the use of the html5 tag <video>. The objective is to avoid the use of the Flash technology. In order to achieve this objective, you need to run the following command to get a WebM […]