Parallel is an amazing library that lets you run commands in ... parallel. You can tell it how many jobs to run in parallel (a default of 1 job per CPU) and can really speed up ad-hoc jobs. However, i...
Its been a long time and I decided now would be a good time to overhaul how my site looks. As part of branching out of just using Drupal, I figured a nice experiment would be to see how to integrate w...
At my workplace, we (used to) use GlusterFS as our NFS between various servers. It stored uploaded user files, various versions of our assets, etc. GlusterFS has had a love-hate relationship in our co...
Over the past month, I've been attempting to learn more about Drupal 8 by attempting to port the @font-your-face module which has a lot of different pieces; it touches on Content Entities, Config Enti...
Its been a long time and while I would normally kick off such a long hiatus with something exciting, I'm going to sneak him a memo instead. I've been working on an Islandora project over the past few ...
About 2 years ago (soon after Drupal 7 was released), I had a site with a number of fields attached to a content type. When I had to clear caches and reload a page, it would take an awfully long time....
It has been 4 months since my last blog post. In that time span, we have seen doomsday come and go, I passed the 30 year mark (I suppose *that* was my doomsday?), and over 3 months have passed into th...
We had an amazing Drupal meetup in Santa Monica a few days ago (link). Our turnout was much higher than it has been in quite a while (atleast 40 people showed up) and the atmosphere was very cheerful....
Most folk that talk to me about linking content within a Drupal site (and use a wysiwyg module) know that I am a big fan of the Linkit module with pathologic. It provides a nice way to reference conte...