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juan_g's picture

Tutorials: Drupal caching, speed and performance

To make it easier to find information on these matters, I've started the new handbook page Drupal caching, speed and performance in the Tutorials section of drupal.org. It's just a guide to information and tutorials on optimizing Drupal's performance, speed, and scalability, with an initial listing of fourteen resources. If anything is missing, you may edit it to add other useful Drupal performance resources.

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cloneofsnake's picture

Looking for tutor - or can we make our first offline meeting a tutorial session?

First of all, somehow this line got stuck in my head when I thought about starting a thread about tutoring here - "I'm not completely incompetent!" LOL... I think that was from Get Smart? Gotta love Steve Carell.

Anyway, yes, tutor... I had spoken about my "Environmentally Conscious Food Directory" idea, I've actually tried to learn Drupal and in the end, decided to hire some professional help to create the site so I could 1) get it up & running ASAP and 2) learn from his finished product so I could get a jump start... making that leap from beginner to intermediate level.

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pedrofaria's picture

apt-get install drupal5

Tenho visto que muita gente tem preferido instalar o drupal pelo proprio gerenciador de pacotes do Ubuntu ou Debian e tem tido alguma dificuldade na hora de colocar o site no servidor de produção.

Após este tutorial você vai ver como é simples.

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starbow's picture

Tutorial: A dynamically expanding AJAX/AHAH Drupal form

I have spent the last couple of weeks trying to figure out how to cleanly do dynamic forms with incremental page updates. I have put together an example module which is available for download. I have also put together a tutorial that explains my technique and the issues I ran into. I am interested in hear what people think of my approach.

http://www.starbowconsulting.com/blog/tao/dynamically-expanding-ajax-aha...

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mpare's picture

Tips and Encoding Settings for Long Duration Screencasts

After several sets of trial and error I found that the settings provided in this document have rendered desirable output for me when creating basic “screencasts.” These settings have been tested on long duration videos, in excess of 1 hour. I have had final file sizes as low as 66 MB for a video that is nearly two hours long with a final screen resolution at or near 800 x 600. Your usage and mileage may vary but these settings have proven successful for me.

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joshk's picture

Great Success!

Well, I consider our first lesson event to be a total success. Victorkane has done an incredible transcript (below) complete with code, and after watching the screen capture of the session, I feel really good about how much we covered and what kind of potential there is for the future here.

My immediate thoughts are on what we should do for the next lesson. I really do want to regularize the timing, so should we change it? After Thursday's success I am willing to take time out of work or weekend to see this group go forward. I'll put up a poll.

Also, we had some good talk in the IRC channel about even better screen-sharing for the event, and next time we'll know to tell people that skype is required. I will also be better able to prepare with one lesson under my belt.

I'm excited!

Use the comments here to throw out ideas for the next lesson in terms of content and procedure. I'll start a separate poll and thread for picking a time.

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joshk's picture

Dojo Lesson #1 -- FormAPI and CCK

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2007-01-05 12:00 - 14:00 Etc/GMT-8

kung-fu droop by SquidsterAfter some discussion in IRC, it seems that there's definitely interest in having "lessons" here at the Dojo. Ideas range from HOWTO on specific features and topics to having creators of interesting sites lead the group in an under-the-hood tour. Really, the sky is the limit.

It is my intention to try and make lesson-time be a recurring weekly feature. To that end I will run the first few. Hopefully within a couple weeks we will have a format that works and other experts can step in/step up.

For our first lesson, we will try to cover the basics (ala Angie's lesson plan): drupal terminology and what it means, the basic module hooks, good coding style and best practices.

Since this is of high value to all dojo members -- and it's a lesson that could/should be repeated many times as new developers join -- we're also going to try and create good documentation out of this. A primer for new Drupal coders, so to speak.

(image credit: Squidster)

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Robert Castelo's picture

London Workshop Content

We're building up some courseware content here for the London Workshops:

http://www.drupal.org.uk/tutorials

We have two events a month, one for beginers and intermediary, the other for intermediary and advanced - which explains why the difficulty levels jump around.

Feel welcome to use or add to these tutorials.

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