Automatically tagging content is becoming easier with services like OpenCalais and Yahoo Terms Extractor, offering their APIs for free semantic analysis of content. There’s even a great Drupal module, Auto Tagging (with a great writeup on usage) that ties these services together and

I’m working on a new project that has a Drupal site running in the cloud–specifically Amazon AWS with RightScale sitting on top to manage our servers and automated scaling scripts. The advantage of RightScale is it allows us to manage our servers

When the new myLifetime community launched we wanted to focus on performance, and one trick was to minimize HTTP requests by using the CSS sprites technique. For a great run down of this technique and examples of other major sites using this, check out

Recently, the new myLifetime Community launched and it has been an overwhelming success. With members joining at such a fast rate, it’ll soon be surging past 100,000 registered members. This site is separate from the main myLifetime site (which also is Drupal)

Almost exactly 1 year ago I redesigned this blog and today, I unveil yet another new design. This time, it’s running Drupal 6 and all that goodness. I’ve enhanced the contrast on the design quite a bit and really improved the readability

UPDATE: Earl comments below how this is already built in. Two different ways to achieve a similar result, each with their own pros/cons. Hats off to Earl Miles and the rest the views developers they have done a tremendous job with Views 2.

Note: A better version of this patch is going into Drupal 7. View the issue/patch here. Getting Drupal to play nice with your CDN can be a bit of a hassle. You have to make sure your assets (like JS, CSS, and image

The .htaccess file included with Drupal tells Apache to send all 404 requests to Drupal to handle. While this is great in some cases, the performance degradation can have a huge impact on a site that has millions of users. When Drupal processes a

At the ParentsClick Network we are soon to be rolling out many more sites on our platform. Because of our unique community API (which I will be detailing in a future post) we are running many sites (many not yet released) on the same

SimpleFeed 2.1SimpleFeed 2.1 has been released, grab it while it’s hot! This release fixes a number of outstanding issues and greatly improves the robustness of SimpleFeed. Highlighted fixes include: Critical update, fixes updating of feed items to use the new unique

Well, it took longer than I expected (announced it a couple months back), but I’m pleased to announce that my Blueprint Drupal Theme has been released! This theme uses the most excellent Blueprint CSS frameworkto setup a starter Drupal theme to make theming

SimpleFeed was released a little over 4 months ago and has been working out very well. However, it still wasn’t fast enough—at least for me. It could work faster, it could be more efficient. So over the past month or two I’

When I redesign my blog, I like to release the previous theme out into the open for anyone to make use of. I did this last year with the Orange Mint theme release and it worked out well. Attached below is a zip file

About 9 months ago I redesigned this blog unveiling the black & blue theme. For a while the redesign was great and reflected my current state of mind–the previous year had been a bit bumpy and the black & blue was to be

Update: version 2 has been released that fixes some bugs and adds new features. More than a year ago, I released an outgoing links filter (OLF)for Drupal. This module worked well and added a CSS class to outgoing links. However, I didn’t

I’m pleased to announce that Simplemenu 5.0 has been released. This new release fixes issues with IE6/7, improves compatibility with different themes, and adds some new options for controlling the menu effects and timing. From the changelog: #199224, fix display issues

Well Happy Thanksgiving everyone! This morning before all the turkey and football I’ve managed to release version 4.0 of SimpleMenu! This new release includes an upgrade to SuperFish 1.3 (note: 1.3.1+ won’t work since it requies jQuery 1.

That’s right, SimpleFeed, the fastest and easiest to use feed parser for Drupal is finally stable and release worthy! A few months back (well half a year, but who’s counting, it’s been a busy summer / fall ;-)), I mentioned a release