http://pajamadesign.com Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. - Thomas A. Edison Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:34:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was upgrading The Watcher module to Drupal 7 today and found myself having to test a lot of email sending. Looking around in vain for a fake email system to log emails to the disk instead of sending them out into the interwebs to risk getting called ... http://pajamadesign.com/2009/11/06/spam-yourself-spamalot-or-a-spamalittle-with-develmaillog/ Drupal 7's major API code freeze is behind us so time to take stock of the effect of the massive API overhauls and the hotly debated new interfaces and how they effect performance. As part of the last sprint at Acquia, I was tasked with comparing the performance ... http://pajamadesign.com/2009/10/22/drupal-7-performance-testing/ As some of you know, I've been doing some performance testing of Drupal recently. I've also started a project on github for this work. I'll be updating the documentation here, there and elsewhere as more time is invested, but for now, here is a brief intro to what jmeter ... http://pajamadesign.com/2009/10/22/measuring-drupal-performance-with-jmeter/ Sorry, long time no blog. It's been a crazy three months working on the Plugin Manager in Core project. For those not acquainted, the plan is to make a GUI based installer / updater for Drupal modules and themes. We were almost done, and even had it all accessible Then, some concerns ... http://pajamadesign.com/2009/08/06/plugin-manager-in-core-part-deux/ (Received in an email... really sounds like a Sufi, but it's not AFAICT from the name). Be Drunk by Charles Baudelaire Translated by Louis Simpson You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it—it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends ... http://pajamadesign.com/2009/07/03/be-drunk/ Okay, so that's going a bit too far. But we're getting ever closer to the dream module and theme updates and installs using a GUI in your browser! Many thanks to cwgordon, Joshua Rogers, dww and especially chx for kicking some serious arse on this issue and getting us very ... http://pajamadesign.com/2009/06/25/the-death-of-the-drupal-programmer/ In my last post, I showed how updating modules may look in Drupal 7. If you didn't see it it is here In this post, I'm going to throw up some "dream" wireframes which may or may not make the ver 1 cut, but are perhaps good start ... http://pajamadesign.com/2009/06/10/finding-and-installing-drupal-modules-from-your-site/ The problem: Updates in Drupal require FTP / SSH and a bit of know how When the average Drupal site owner without ssh, cvs and other geek gadgets wants to update modules on or themes on their Drupal site, they currently have to do the following: Go update status and ... http://pajamadesign.com/2009/06/10/updating-modules-drupal-7/ Hey, stay out of my index! So when I first joined Acquia, my fledgling Solr hosting service had IP based security. You, the customer could tell me what IPs you were going to connect with, and I would allow access to your search index from those IPs. One of ... http://pajamadesign.com/2009/06/09/wake-up-and-smell-the-coffee-through-an-hmac-filter/ A while back, I wrote a daemon. No, I'm not a satanist mom, it's a program which will basically stick around and manage a bunch of other little minions as they server content via unix sockets to a webserver (nginx). The point here is to take in traffic from nginx ... http://pajamadesign.com/2009/04/06/this-python-needs-adult-supervision/