Drupal Experts Blog

Angela Byron is co-administrator of the free software Drupal Framework and Content Management System. She spoke with us a little about her role in the Drupal project and the recently released Drupal 7, the latest version of Drupal.

When we present Drupal as the platform that we recommend for the development of a Web project, it is inevitable that the client will be concerned about how stable it is and, above all, if it will be able to support the traffic projected for the project.

Drupal Commons is a Drupal-based solution that is focused on offering services for virtual communities. Certainly the Acquia people have done a great job with Drupal Commons and with it they seek to reach the niche of external and internal communities.

Development on mobile platforms has grown considerably and the Android operating system built by Google is one of those that has registered the greatest growth, which is why it has attracted the attention of many developers and every day more tools appear that help adopt the platform.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation in collaboration with the Tor project has launched a beta version of the HTTPS Everywhere Extension, this extension encrypts communication with a large number of websites making requests over https, many websites although they offer https support are not intuitive to use or link to sections without https which does not ensure that we are always on an encrypted connection, with this extension we can stay in an encrypted connection as long as it is available.

In the talk that Dries (pronounced Dris) Buytaert gave at the Drupal Business meeting last Tuesday, November 29 in cold Chicago, he gave the attendees an account of how he got into the task of developing a internal communication system for students at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, as part of their degree project, and how that development eventually took different forms and with that possibilities for publishing content that, with its maturation, became what it is today. It's Drupal.

In just thirty years, hardware technology has made quite considerable progress. If you don't believe it, look at the following image where a comparison is made between what it meant to have 20GB of disk space 30 years ago and 32GB today. The comparison is clear both in physical space and price and weight, especially the latter.

In this video tutorial, Human Bits explains how to create a drush make installation profile to install Drupal with the contributed modules we want. Additionally, it can automatically download the external libraries we choose.

DrupalCon is approaching and we already have this year's programming.

For those of us who are constantly developing on Drupal, we know that the Views module is one of the great pillars of this CMS, however its way of structuring the HTML and the class names are not a very good experience given that we find a somewhat cumbersome structure, especially from the semantic point of view.