Droptica Team

When you build a drupal website, the views module is your great friend. It will help you build lists of content (eg. the 5 latest blog posts). Sometimes though you would love to learn what query is the view running exactly. This may be for debugging or a different reason.

We are a proud sponsor of the Drupal Camp Wrocław 2015 in Poland. DrupalCamp Wrocław 2015 is a conference organized for Drupal community and others interested in the software. For three days (Friday, Saturday and Sunday), there will be lectures and workshops given by the Drupal experts.

We're beginning preparations for another edition of DrupalCamp Wrocław. This time we meet on 29-31 May 2015. You can register at http://www.drupalcampwroclaw.pl/

This list is a handy basic tool to quickly find out how well was a Drupal webiste built. It is by no means comprehensive, as a full audit has to take into account particular websites specifics but it is a really good indicator of what you are up against. If a websites fails on many of items on this list, this should raise a red flag. If you need more information about the items here, please contact us. We provide drupal development services and can answer your questions.

When you use code-driven development on websites based on Drupal sometimes you have to create a menu or a menu item programmatically in hook_update_N. We use this approach to development quite often when, as part of our Drupal support services, we prepare a large batch of changes to be deployed all at ones.

Conference date: 16-18.05.2014 More details: www.drupalcampwroclaw.pl

Working in a Drupal agency you do a lot of drupal development and come against various problems. Recently, on a migration to Drupal I encountered a new problem with the Drupal database abstraction layer.

Session at DrupalCamp Wrocław 2013 A sessioon about managing a multi-site installation on Drupal.

At DrupalCamp Wroclaw I was talking about build and test automation in Drupal. Today i uploaded Virtualbox image where you can find configured Jenkins CI and the example of Drupal project with simple PHPUnit tests. We provide a lot of drupal development services and over the years we created a comprehensive workflow for managing drupal websites. In Droptica all our projects are based on this workflow. We use special script for build and tests automation.

Being a drupal agency which provides Drupal support, we deal a lot with performance. In this post, I will discuss a simple setting which substantially increases load time of websites with images. On Debian, Apache installed from repositories has mod_expires turned off by default. This seriously increases server load. So what does mod_expires do?