It’s been a quick week, and we’re still collecting our thoughts about Drupalcon Paris. As usual, it was a productive, informative, and rewarding gathering of the best Drupal minds out there. We’re very proud of our own Chris Pliakas and Michelle Lauer, who presented on Staging Drupal, as well as Jake Strawn, who presented with [...]

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The DrupalCon Paris session schedule was finalized over the weekend, and we are very excited to be presenting two sessions at the upcoming Drupal conference.

The first session, “Staging Drupal: Managing Your Project in Multiple Environments“, will be presented by Chris and Michelle. This session is in the “Code it, test it, deploy it” track. [...]

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Like many hopeful DrupalCon attendees, we recently found ourselves in the position of needing an extra ticket to the sold-out DrupalCon Paris next month. Sessions were just finalized over the weekend, and to some extent, our traveling plans were contingent upon which and how many of our team’s proposed sessions were accepted by the community [...]

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10. “Drupal’s API allows you to easily create and customize functionality.” -Michelle

9. “For a designer, Drupal is like a functional blank canvas. The possibilities are endless and achieveable.” -D

8. “I love that Drupal has now gone mainstream and picked up the support of such companies as Google, Adobe, Intuit, Disney, Sony, Warner Brothers and AOL. [...]

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There are few things that web professionals can agree on unanimously. The nature of this business relies heavily on “best practices” that can often be of a subjective point of view. That being said, there are few people in this industry that would disagree on how important it is to ask the right questions and, [...]

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Like many people, I’m often looking for ways to “make our lives easier.” At CommonPlaces, we have many different Drupal projects and contributed modules in use in those projects. When a new advisory is released for a module — often an important security advisory requiring immediate attention — we would have to look through all [...]

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There are a lot of requests on the Drupal.org site about how to change the places where the username appears in order to display the “real name” (it could be first name, last name, or any other information, like dog’s name).

What if in the “Authored By” field when you are first creating a node, you [...]

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This post walks through the creation of a simple module. Focusing on the ability to “fill the gap” in Drupal features you may find missing in your own implementations.

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Welcome to the first in what we hope will be a ongoing series of blogs that discuss the more technical side of things. Today I’d like to talk about how we theme template calls in Drupal 6, and how much it has changed from the way we did it in Drupal 5.

The Theory

Let’s dive right [...]

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You can currently read a great article about Acquia and Drupal on the Boston Globe site (thanks to Eileen for sending it to me!). Acquia is located in Andover, MA, and the article is all about how Drupal specifically, and open source software more generally, is becoming more and more accepted as reliable and cost-effective [...]

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