Hi, my name is Craig, and I create content. Between gabbing about industry trends, waxing political, songwriting and recording music, not to mention posting sporadic updates to my status on myriad social networking sites, I am out and about on the WWW. Not as much as some, but of late, the ingest/output ratio has definitely started becoming more balanced.< more
Posted at 09:30 pm by DPCI Bloggers
Here's a presentation Jeff made at a recent DPCI seminar (October 29th, 2009). The subject is Scaling Drupal in the Enterprise. If you have any questions, please post them as comments here and I'll try to answer them.< more
Posted at 11:33 am by DPCI Bloggers
The White House's official internet home recently refreshed with Drupal as their foundation. Upon hearing the news, I, like so many open-source evangelists, was elated. Big win for Drupal and the open-source community.< more
Posted at 08:54 pm by DPCI Bloggers
Testing against an exact copy of a live site is essential to successful Drupal deployments. This, unfortunately, can be both time consuming and mind-numbingly tedious. If, for example, something goes wrong with an update script that changes the database schema you need to fix the issue, rebuild the database, and test again. A potentially laborious task.< more
Posted at 12:38 pm by DPCI Bloggers
When developing a Drupal site, there's a constant sense of deja-vu. "I know I've done this before!" As with many things in life, it becomes a race to do it faster this time than you did the last.< more
Posted at 10:15 pm by DPCI Bloggers
Smashing Magazine recently called out a potential security risk with SVN that I think is worth reposting here. This isn't an SVN vulnerability that needs a patch, but rather a symptom of poor deployment practices that are easily avoided. Here's how:< more
Posted at 07:31 pm by DPCI Bloggers
So here’s the short version: Artist makes a cute little robot. Robot carries a flag with a destination written on it. Robot is set loose on the streets of New York City. Passersby see the little robot, figure out where it is going, and help redirect it towards its goal.< more
Posted at 06:53 pm by DPCI Bloggers
One of the best features in Drupal is the ability to configure Drupal from within the Web UI. While this allows quick manipulation from the front end, regardless of technical expertise, it can quickly become a nightmare when migrating modified data between local, development, test, and production servers.< more
Posted at 11:35 am by DPCI Bloggers
UPDATE: For those visiting from Slate's article "Message Error" by Chris Wilson, please check out my rebuttal. Thanks!< more
Posted at 03:17 pm by DPCI Bloggers
Drupal and Joomla are the two most popular open-source cms solutions around, and there is a long-running debate as to which is the superior product. After having worked with both, I am ready to choose a side:
Drupal is the superior CMS.< more
Posted at 09:32 am by DPCI Bloggers
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