May 2012

19 May

Drupal and HP Cloud: DrupalEasy Interview

Posted by matt

At DrupalCon Denver, Ryan Price of DrupalEasy interviewed me about what it means to be a Developer Experience engineer at HP Cloud. We talked about the new HP Cloud PHP bindings, our new HP Cloud Drupal module, and the recent release of my Drupal 7 Multi-Site book/ebook. As always, hanging around with Ryan was a blast.

Since that podcast, there have been a few happenings on the topics I cover:

  • We've vastly improved performance on the HP Cloud PHP library. I have a blog coming with details about how we chopped 70% of our network traffic time off of our HTTP requests.
  • HP Cloud is about to launch a MySQL Database As A Service, and we'll launch updated PHP bindings and the Drupal module too.
  • I also recently posted an update on getting Drupal Vagrant running on Windows 7. It's now quite a bit easier than it was when I wrote the book, as the devs for Ruby, VirtualBox, and Vagrant have all been hard at work. Hooray for Open Source!
19 May

Updated Instructions for Installing Drupal Vagrant on Windows 7

Posted by matt in drupal, git, multi-site, vagrant, virtualbox

VirtualBox, Vagrant, Ruby, and Git have all gone through upgrades (major and minor) since I wrote the chapter on installing them in Multi-Site Drupal. While this hasn't made much of a difference for Mac and Linux/UNIX, Windows 7 support is now much better.

Here is a guide for installing the Multi-Site vagrant image for Drupal 7 on Windows 7. (If you're interested in running Drupal Vagrant, these instructions will work for that project as well.)

Drupal 7 Multi Sites Configuration

Posted on 19. May, 2012 by matt
Drupal 7 Multi Sites Configuration
05 May

QueryPath in Practice: Migrating ICANN.org to Drupal

Posted by matt in drupal, html, import, migrate, php, programming, querypath

The Four Kitchens blog is running a story on how they used QueryPath and the Migrate module to migrate over 10,000 pages of content, in many different languages, into Drupal. I love to hear stories about the creative ways developers use QueryPath to accomplish complex tasks. A huge thanks to Mark Theunissen for the detailed write-up.

In related news, the new QueryPath 3 engine is just about done, and will make monster imports like this much faster.