Drupal

After successfully deploying Varnish2 on our solr cluster I decided to give it a try on the web nodes and use it to strip the analytics cookies off. The results have been impressive.

The above is the CPU usage on www3.drupal.org. As you can plainly see, the difference between Squid/No Caching and Varnish/Anonymous Caching was significant. While we are still resolving some issues after the switch, it has been a large success on the whole and has lowered the load on our web nodes across the board.

Views Slideshow: Dynamic Display Block module is a views_slideshow plugin mainly used to showcase featured content at a prominent place on the frontpage of the site in an attractive way. A featured content slideshow can contain e.g.: New articles, Most popular content, New products, Portfolios, etc.

The Drupal OpenLayers project creates a set of modules that integrates the OpenLayers JS library with Drupal. It provides a set of features and functionality that allow users to create dynamic and unique looking maps on their site.

The watchdog aggregator is intended for people that run some or a lot of drupal sites and may have a central site (maybe an intranet site) that they can visit and see if something is wrong on their other sites.

It collects all watchdog messages of a certain level (f.e. WATCHDOG_ERROR and above) from other sites similar to the news aggregator module that collects news.

maybe easier than creating nodes for every view every time to let regular users edit views header footer text

How Indymedia New Zealand converted their site to Drupal.

Custom access control module meant to take the input of several others and make the final, overriding call.

I like this theme, would have used it for the StopTheWars October17 site.

Includes brief mediawiki style recipe. (Thinking for what Nate Curtis wanted.)