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A recent project put us in need of a carousel. Jcarousel provided the basics for what we needed however we had to add some additional love to get the carousel working the way the client envisioned.
We had to theme the block.tpl file for the carousel, using PHP to achieve our goal. The biggest issue we needed to address was that the carousel would need to start on the same thumbnail (depending on a page's parent) whether it was on a parent or child page. Read more..

Drupal 6 Performance Tips, by Trevor James and TJ Holowaychuk, is a newly-published title from Packt Publishing aimed at Drupal beginners, developers, designers, and webmasters who utilize the Drupal content management system to create robust websites. It provides crucial performance-related information for Drupal users of all experience levels, including module contributors, webmasters who simply configure and maintain Drupal websites, and even themers.
The book contains basic and advanced topics on Drupal performance that will appeal both to the Drupal novice and the advanced user or developer. With this book you will learn how to maximize and optimize your Drupal 6 framework using best practice performance solutions and tools. The book covers how to vastly improve performance through upgrades, caching, configuring and optimization using core and contributed modules.
As a reader of drupal.org, you can receive a 15% discount (see below) and benefit the Drupal Association! Read more..

Attached is a simple script to backup Drupal databases in an incremental-archive-friendly way (1.7KB). Instead of dumping the database into one big SQL file, this script creates many small files; one per table. With a blacklist option to exclude certain tables. It stores the structure (CREATE TABLE statements) in a separate file too. Separate files are usefull in an incremental backup situation: Drupal has many tables who’s content hardly ever changes, and has tables whos content is completely rewritten every X days.. Read more..

Drupal is one of the most powerful open source content management system, voted by community and professionals as the best Open Source CMS in last two years. I have built many websites with Drupal, and found it a great solution for almost all kind of websites from simple blog to large corporate presentations. Read more..

In an attempt to point to some of the great things that are available using Features, I tried to look for a directory of Feature Servers. Sadly, Google was not very helpful. After some digging, I was able to locate a page on the OpenAtrium Community site called Distributed Feature Servers. This points to many of the other pages I was able to find via search. Read more..

Video about the Boxes module for Drupal. Read more...

There are far too many posts comparing three of the largest PHP-coded Open Source CMSs: Drupal, Wordpress, and Joomla. They each have their own merits and place in the world. Today I felt the need to look at all three project homepages to see what the projects have to say about themselves. I found some interesting things that might shed some light onto the different projects. read more...