https://www.skwashd.net/tags/drupal/Recent content in drupal on Dave Hall (@skwashd)Hugo -- gohugo.ioenSat, 16 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2019-11-16-drupalsouth-diversity-scholarship-winner-announced/Sat, 16 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2019-11-16-drupalsouth-diversity-scholarship-winner-announced/A few weeks ago we announced our diversity scholarship for DrupalSouth. Today we announce the winner.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2019-10-04-announcing-drupalsouth-diversity-scholarship/Fri, 04 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2019-10-04-announcing-drupalsouth-diversity-scholarship/Dave Hall Consulting announces a scholarship to improve diversity at DrupalSouth.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2017-09-24-drupal-puppies/Sun, 24 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2017-09-24-drupal-puppies/Over the years Drupal distributions, or distros as they’re more affectionately known, have evolved a lot.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2017-09-16-trying-drupal/Sat, 16 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2017-09-16-trying-drupal/While preparing for my DrupalCamp Belgium keynote presentation I looked at how easy it is to get started with various CMS platforms.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2017-04-27-continuing-conversation-drupalcon-and-future/Thu, 27 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2017-04-27-continuing-conversation-drupalcon-and-future/My blog post from last week was very well received and sparked a conversation in the Drupal community about the future of Drupal.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2017-04-22-many-people-want-talk/Sat, 22 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2017-04-22-many-people-want-talk/WOW! The response to my blog post on the future of Drupal earlier this week has been phenomenal.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2017-04-06-remote-presentations/Thu, 06 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2017-04-06-remote-presentations/Living in the middle of nowhere and working most of my hours in the evenings I have few opportunities to attend events in person, let alone deliver presentations.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2016-09-17-road-drupalcon-dublin/Sat, 17 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2016-09-17-road-drupalcon-dublin/DrupalCon Dublin is just around the corner. Earlier today I started my journey to Dublin. This week I’ll be in Mumbai for some work meetings before heading to Dublin.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2016-01-25-environment-config-drupal-8/Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2016-01-25-environment-config-drupal-8/One of the biggest improvements in Drupal 8 is the new configuration management system. Config is now decoupled from code and the database.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2015-05-15-leaking-information-drupal-urls/Fri, 15 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2015-05-15-leaking-information-drupal-urls/Update: It turns out the DA was trolling. We all now know that DrupalCon North America 2016 will be in New Orleans.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2013-01-02-visualising-drupal-development-history-gource/Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2013-01-02-visualising-drupal-development-history-gource/Over the Christmas break I came across gource, a software version control visualization tool. Gource produces really nice visual representations of software projects growing.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2012-10-08-coder-talks-wanted-drupalcon-sydney/Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2012-10-08-coder-talks-wanted-drupalcon-sydney/One of the many hats I wear these days is Development and Coding Track Chair for DrupalCon Sydney 2013.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2012-07-13-gitlist-and-my-todo-list/Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2012-07-13-gitlist-and-my-todo-list/Months ago I was searching for a good web front end for git for doing code reviews and browsing repos.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2012-05-20-your-site-should-be-full-beans/Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2012-05-20-your-site-should-be-full-beans/From: Dave Hall To: boxes boxes-module@drupal.org Subject: Our Relationship Dear boxes, I’m sorry but things just aren’t working out between us.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2011-11-11-drupal-enterprise-aka-vote-my-drupalcon-session/Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2011-11-11-drupal-enterprise-aka-vote-my-drupalcon-session/For the last few months I’ve been working for Technocrat on a new Drupal based site for the Insurance Australia Group’s Direct Insurance brands.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2011-05-17-drush-make-and-module-dependencies/Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2011-05-17-drush-make-and-module-dependencies/Drush make is a wonderful tool for constructing Drupal platforms. A lot of Drupal developers are used to adding a list of modules, a few libraries and theme or 2 then running drush make to build their platform.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2011-01-26-looking-back-drupal-downunder/Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2011-01-26-looking-back-drupal-downunder/I spent the weekend at Drupal Downunder in Brisbane. The venue was excellent. I’m a fan of not using “traditional” venues for conferences, to help make them even more memorable for attendees.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2011-01-02-100-drupal-site-series-part-7-wrapping-it/Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2011-01-02-100-drupal-site-series-part-7-wrapping-it/Thanks to everyone who read the posts in my $100 Drupal site series. Today I will be responding to some of the points people have raised in comments and via email as well as adding a few closing comments.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-12-29-100-drupal-site-series-part-6-business-considerations/Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-12-29-100-drupal-site-series-part-6-business-considerations/During this series on creating a profitable business around the concept of building Drupal sites for $100 I have attempted to demonstrate that there is a viable business model here.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-12-28-100-drupal-site-series-part-5-support/Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-12-28-100-drupal-site-series-part-5-support/Through out this series, the cost of labour has been identified as one of the biggest risks for this project.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-12-28-100-drupal-site-series-part-4-platforms/Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-12-28-100-drupal-site-series-part-4-platforms/So far in this series we have covered a potential target market and business plan, resources and infrastructure and the tools required to deliver Drupal sites with a sale price of $100 per site.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-12-26-100-drupal-site-series-part-3-tools/Sun, 26 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-12-26-100-drupal-site-series-part-3-tools/In the previous instalment of my $100 Drupal site series I covered resources and infrastructure. In this post I will be covering the development tools I think you need in order to build and sell Drupal sites at the $100 price point.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-12-24-100-drupal-site-series-part-2-resources-and-infrastructure/Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-12-24-100-drupal-site-series-part-2-resources-and-infrastructure/In my previous post in this series on the $100 Drupal site I outlined a possible target market and set out why I thought very low cost sites could be a viable business model.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-12-24-100-drupal-site-series-part-1-it-possible/Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-12-24-100-drupal-site-series-part-1-it-possible/In late October Gdzine posed the question “$100 CMS web site feasible? What do you think?https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-08-08-kicking-javascript-footer-drupal-8/Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-08-08-kicking-javascript-footer-drupal-8/As a platform, Drupal has excellent javascript support. Drupal 7 will ship with jQuery 1.4.2 and jQuery UI 1.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-07-22-travelling-speaking-scaling-and-aegiring/Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-07-22-travelling-speaking-scaling-and-aegiring/The next couple of months are going to be a crazy ride. I will be visiting at least 7 countries, speaking on 8 or more days in a 5 week period.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-06-26-multi-core-apache-solr-ubuntu-1004-drupal-auto-provisioning/Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-06-26-multi-core-apache-solr-ubuntu-1004-drupal-auto-provisioning/Apache Solr is an excellent full text index search engine based on Lucene. Solr is increasingly being used in the Drupal community for search.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-04-16-ebook-review-theming-drupal-first-timer%E2%80%99s-guide/Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-04-16-ebook-review-theming-drupal-first-timer%E2%80%99s-guide/My experience themeing Drupal, like most of my coding skills, have been developed by digging up useful resources online and some trail and error.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-04-09-motorola-dext-my-firts-impressions/Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-04-09-motorola-dext-my-firts-impressions/Today I purchased a Motorola DEXT (aka Cliq) from Optus. Overall I like it. It feels more polished than the Nokia N97 which I bought last year.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-02-22-check-drupal-module-status-using-bash/Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-02-22-check-drupal-module-status-using-bash/When you run a lot of Drupal sites it can be annoying to keep track of all of the modules contained in a platform and ensure all of them are up to date.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-02-04-packaging-drush-and-dependencies-debian/Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-02-04-packaging-drush-and-dependencies-debian/Lately I have been trying to avoid non packaged software being installed on production servers. The main reason for this is to make it easier to apply updates.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2009-12-08-updating-all-your-drupal-sites-once-aka-lazy-persons-aegir/Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2009-12-08-updating-all-your-drupal-sites-once-aka-lazy-persons-aegir/Aegir is an excellent way to manage multi site drupal instances, but sometimes it can be a bit too heavy.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2009-12-03-php-print-thello-world/Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2009-12-03-php-print-thello-world/My blog is now syndicated on Planet Drupal. I am very excited about this - thanks Simon.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2009-11-30-drupal-6-javascript-and-jquery/Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2009-11-30-drupal-6-javascript-and-jquery/I have just finished reading Matt Butcher’s latest book, Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery, published by Packt Publishing - ISBN 978-1-847196-16-3.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2009-08-29-missing-software-freedom-conference-kosova/Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2009-08-29-missing-software-freedom-conference-kosova/Today I should be in Prishtina Kosovo running Drupal workshops at the first Software Freedom Conference Kosova.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2008-11-27-updated-imce-plugin-drupal-yui-editor/Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2008-11-27-updated-imce-plugin-drupal-yui-editor/My IMCE plugin for YUI Editor has been included in drupal CVS git and the 6.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2008-10-22-yui-editor-imce-drupal-6/Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2008-10-22-yui-editor-imce-drupal-6/Update: This has now been included in the 6.x-2.33 release of Drupal’s YUI Editor module and I have added support for YUI 2.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2008-05-21-virtual-host-project/Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2008-05-21-virtual-host-project/Not long before my old laptop got to the end of it usable lifespan I started playing with the Zend Framework in my spare time.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-04-20-phpgroupware-release/Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-04-20-phpgroupware-release/I have been thinking about how to deal with releases of phpGroupWare. For me it is a technical, procedural and political question.