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Drush and Drupal have co-mingled as trusted companions for more than a decade. Drush can be used to set up Drupal, maintain it, and deploy it.  Drush is a command line shell and Unix scripting interface for Drupal. It runs update.php, executes SQL queries, runs content migrations, along with… Read More
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Load-testing is an essential exercise to methodically test a Drupal site to ensure it can handle a high volume of traffic without encountering performance issues. In a previous post, we discussed how Locust can be used to simulate concurrent user requests and measure site performance.  This is… Read More
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Powering the NASA site, along with 14 percent of the top 10,000 websites worldwide, Drupal marks the next frontier in it’s 20 year history this month with the December 14 release of Drupal 10.  Among the biggest questions concerning the upcoming release: Why now? Fact is, the December 14… Read More
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I was recently thinking about Promet’s engagement with British Columbia’s Knowledge Network, and was reminded of a famous maxim from the theater world: “There are no small parts, only small actors.” I’ve always loved that saying because it drives home the point that excellence at every level and… Read More
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Cultivating a Drupal Site
Among the Drupal site owners who are experiencing first-hand how easy (and actually, how fun) it can be to make updates and switch up layouts whenever needed, the first generation of Provus® is a rather big deal. The same can be said for developers, for whom component-based design systems are… Read More
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I’ve done a lot of Drupal training over the years. Drupal is an awesome CMS and I love the opportunity to help those who are new to Drupal to get solid, career-boosting skills. Invariably, there are "AHA" moments among class participants who learn something about Drupal that they had never heard… Read More
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The pandemic has accelerated digital disruption in every sector, and possibly none more so than higher education. Faced with expectations to pivot on a moments notice with websites that need to do more heavy lifting than ever before, colleges and universities are taking a closer look at the… Read More
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As as one of the Drupal trainers for Promet Source, I have the privilege, month after month, of witnessing the lights going on among participants in our online classes as they realize the game-changing differences between Drupal 9 and Drupal 7.  Considering that Drupal 7 is slated for end-of-… Read More
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The proprietary software upon which Orange County’s previous website had been built, represented the best available solution at the time it was developed. Over the course of a decade and a half, as Drupal made quantum evolutionary leaps forward, the county’s proprietary web software proved to be… Read More
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I teach developers how to use Drupal. I think Drupal is one of the best content management systems out there today, and as developers begin to learn all that Drupal is capable of, they tend to agree that it is awesome. Throughout the training process and we go through content types, fields,… Read More
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