Alexander on Web Development

While searching for some data in the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs website I stumbled upon the U.S. Department of Housing and Development web site. After some browsing there I noticed some rather familiar pagination links...Drupal pagination links.

Quickly hitting the shortcut for viewing the source code in Firefox revealed what I feared: the sites/all/[modules,themes,etc] file structure typical of Drupal, the ../taxonomy/term/foo-bar taxonomy hierarchy and finally a concatenated or optimized JavaScript file with a file name ending in Drupal, which I found by searching the source code for the word "Drupal".

Are we ready for some Drupal sightseeing? There are a couple Web sites around in the Internet that are all about featuring what sites use Drupal. Visiting them however, might be overkill to those who need a concise list without interpretations. I have created this list for the benefits of those people and as a reference to potential Drupal newcomers.

News and Publishing

Heh, I've always liked this video. I wonder what took so much to post it here. Pirillo basically says: Wordpress is simpler, and if you have one blog with multiple contributors, then Wordpress is definitely the way to go. (That's what he's using for his personal blog). But if you have anything more complex than that, like a blog site with multiple blogs with multiple bloggers each one, then there's no question as to which one to use...Drupal.

Drupal modules shouldn't be installed without testing first. Not on live production sites. Especially if they are in Alpha, Beta, or Release Candidate status. In this case a client of mine installed FB Connect and FB Social, and totally screwed up his website. Initially I thought that the server was running out of memory, but when we checked the memory stats it was operating well below it's maximum capacity.

Updating, administering and programming in your Drupal has never been easier...and fun!

You know that you just got a hung up cron job in Drupal when you try to run cron and Drupal responds with "another cron is being run" or something similar. A similar problem also happens while clearing the cache from the command line using Drush and you get an error that says "bus error". I've found an effective way to resolve these two problems is to: