18 April 2013
The Views module is the most powerful tool for a Drupal developer, and so much loved that from Drupal 8 the Views module has made it's way into Drupal core. As for Drupal 7, Views is still a contributed module and not all that famous for it's performance. This
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15 November 2012
With search data, statistics, cache tables, and log messages Drupal databases can get pretty big, but a lot of the data is disposable. Search data can be reconstructed, caches can be rebuilt, and old log messages can be ignored. So thanks to the help of a colleague Jonathan Webb
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25 June 2012
More often than I'd like I see issues where Drupal's cron fails or exceeds the time limit. Here is a handy Drush command which will run all cron hooks on your site and the time it takes to run. This will allow you to see which cron it fails on,
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16 September 2011
Since working for Acquia I interact with dozens of different client every day, and even though most use the Acquia Managed Cloud or Acquia DevCloud environments there are varying development methods and workflows used. I thought I would blog about my preferred workflow, then you can tell me about your.
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26 July 2011
It's that time of year again, time to vote in the .net awards. Each year .net magazine holds awards for the international web industry. It starts by asking for nominations, these nominations all get collated and are then opened up for public voting. Once the votes have all
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