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The Many Ways Aegir Can Help Your Business ergonlogic The Aegir Hosting System is the only fully free and open source distributed provisioning system for Drupal. It allows you to manage anywhere from a few sites for a single organization, to thousands... Intermediate Business + Strategy
The Proper Care and Feeding of your MySQL Database davidstokes MySQL is the database for most Drupal sites. But what do you need to do to keep your database happy? What signs do you watch for to make sure it is healthy? How often do you have to backup data?... Beginner DevOps
The Psychology of Qualification: Identifying Truly Rewarding Projects bskowron Most of us have heard of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs at some point in our life. It's a theory of human motivation which posits that humans seek to satisfy certain basic needs (like food, water,... Beginner Business + Strategy
The Science of Guessing - Drupal estimation techniques from project managers svettes, chrisstrahl, solipsist What usually happens before you get started planning, designing, writing and coding is estimation. Your customer wants to know what the party will cost them. It’s a tricky question to answer. This... Beginner Business + Strategy
The Story of 10gen.com riboflavin, DyanneNova 10gen.com is the corporate site for 10gen, the makers of MongoDB. Last year, 10gen made the decision to migrate away from its legacy website backend, built in-house using the WebPy framework, to... Intermediate Business + Strategy
The strategy of giving back: How contributing to Drupal can make your company thrive owenlansbury Many companies struggle to balance client work with contributing back to the Drupal project, but things become much easier when it's embedded into your core business strategy. Whether your company... Beginner Business + Strategy
The Survivors Guide from The Overnight Website Challenge cosmicdreams Building Professional Drupal Websites Faster and More Efficiently on a Deadline Building a professional Drupal website under time constraints is never easy. There are numerous roadblocks,... Beginner Business + Strategy
The Swiss Army Knife of Drupal Project Planning: The CivicActions Project Framework ianrhett Every Drupal project is a solution to a client problem and the beauty of Drupal is its flexibility in solving problems. As a wise project architect once said, “There are many paths to the top of the... Intermediate Business + Strategy
The Tao of Project Management (It's Not About the Tools) atedgerton, chrisstrahl Drupal loves to talk about tools. They’re something you can touch, see, use, and wield. However, much like a sword, tools can be ineffective or even dangerous in the wrong hands. It’s great that we... Beginner Business + Strategy
The Ultimate Toolbox –Using Content to Build Your Dream Home moondancerjen Building a powerful content and social strategy is a lot like building a house—various tools are needed to keep all of the pieces moving and working together. Workflow. Content development for... Intermediate Site Building
The Voice of Switzerland: How to handle 5000 visits per second (How to sleep without the server-crash-fear) Schnitzel Hosting small to medium-sized Drupal sites isn't typically a big challenge. But what about large sites where up-time is business-critical for a customer? How should we as Drupal sys admins best... Intermediate DevOps
The Voice of Switzerland: How to handle 5000 visits per second (How to sleep without the server-crash-fear) Schnitzel Hosting small to medium-sized Drupal sites isn't typically a big challenge. But what about large sites where up-time is business-critical for a customer? How should we as Drupal sys admins best... Intermediate DevOps
The why and the how of moving to 5.4 wimg With PHP 5.4 out and many production environments still running 5.2 (or older), it's time to paint a clear picture on why everyone should move to 5.3 and 5.4 and how to get code ready for the latest... Intermediate Coding + Development
Theme a System (™) beeradb, mortendk A technical usecase with outragious stories... Intermediate Frontend
Too Much and Never Enough: What is the Content Curation Cure for Drupal? mhackner Why is Pandora the most popular way to listen to music online, and the number one competitor to NPR? Because it can guess what you want, when you want it, using information you and the broader... Intermediate User Experience (UX)
Tools, Tips and Techniques for Private Cloud Deployments xbrlspy Whether you’re an independent developer or development manager in a large company, “the cloud” is on everyone’s mind. But just because it’s in the cloud, doesn’t mean development and deployment is... Beginner Business + Strategy
Top Ten Reasons You Should Say No to Fixed Bids svettes, solipsist Fixed bids has long been the standard process to establish a contract between a web agency and the buyer. They've been favored by customers who want control. But fixed bids only offer superficial... Beginner Business + Strategy
Transforming Yalesites: The Inside and Out of Yale University's Drupal Service vinmassaro, nflowers1228 Yale University has recently transformed the YaleSites service by upgrading the platform from Drupal 6 to 7 and providing additional features to make building a site on the University campus easier.... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Tricking Out Your Ride: Bringing the User Experience to Stock Drupal metaltoad The expectation for great administrative experiences continues to increase every day, but stock Drupal 7 is still the same experience it was when it launched a year and a half ago. What's a UX... Intermediate User Experience (UX)
Tutoring@Colorado State University: Connecting students with opportunities for ongoing learning JimFolk Tutoring services on university campuses play an important role in increasing student retention rates and improving overall academic success. Despite this significance, tutoring on university... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education

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