This week I’m in Chicago, IL – US attending DrupalCon ’11. This conference is different than most of the conferences I attend in several way, the most important being scale. This conference is huge. It is on the scale of OSCON as opposed to most of the conferences I attend, which are on the scale of ZendCon. Click on in, check out my thoughts and leave one of your own.

This week I am in downtown Chicago making new friends and attending sessions and parties at DrupalCon ’11. I will have to say, I’ve been to a lot of conferences in the past 6 years but it is rare that I meet a community that is as enthusiastic and friendly as the Drupal community.

To be successful, larger Drupal sites face key issues of site performance and scalability. This webinar is targeted at managers and developers who are trying to get the most out of a Drupal site. We’ll discuss common Drupal performance bottlenecks and a number of techniques to dramatically improve site performance. A detailed review of recent performance and stress testing will highlight PHP opt…

Zend and Acquia have jointly released a new white paper entitled: Optimizing Drupal Performance – Benchmark Results.

This paper presents the results of performance benchmarks for comparing several common PHP runtime environments and configurations. The application used for benchmarking is Drupal, the open source social publishing platform.

Tested runtime environments included plain PHP, Zend Server (www.zend.com/products/server), and open-source optimizers, such as APC and WinCache.

A custom Drupal development company, 2bits, decided to do a performance comparison of Drupal running on Zend Server CE vs. Apache mod_fcgid. (They had previously done a comparison between mod_fcgid and mod_php)

I attended the 2009 DrupalCon in Washington DC this year, and was extremely impressed by the conference and the Drupal Community in general. I’ll admit that I’ve never used Drupal, though always had a number of friends who used it regularly. So I was attending as an ‘outsider’ to so speak, not knowing the lingo nor how that community differed from the more general PHP community.

Whether you’re an enterprise developer working in a large shop or setting up a blog for yourself, you’ve almost certainly been tasked with keeping your development code in sync with some type of stable release. Whether a project is big or small, you still need to ensure that the core code you work with remains consistent. This article will walk you through the development of an Adobe AIR and AJAX application used to synchronize the modules of a site developed in Drupal, the popular free and open-source content management system used in thousands of sites across the Internet.

Drupal is a fantastically well featured, and free, content management system written in PHP. No wonder so many companies are using it internally or externally as one of their business applications. But often Drupal alone is not enough. It needs to be integrated or extended to match the needs of the organization. One way to extend it is on the front-end through something like an Ajax or Flex based widget.