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BACKBONE ♥'S DRUPAL - Liberate the server from client tasks! robbieferrero The internet has grown up and so should Drupal. Browsers have become powerful platforms and users expectations become more mature. Using Drupal with frameworks like Backbone.js can get us there.... Intermediate Coding + Development
Do more with LESS ronnbot, lorendavidson LESS extends CSS with dynamic behaviour and runs on both the client-side and server-side (with the Drupal LESS module). It is also receiving more active development lately (compared to Sass). In... Beginner Frontend
Creating a Drupal Co-op - the Ins and Outs MatthewS How do you manage the risk of hiring full time staff? How can your one-man-shop ever take on large projects? You should consider a co-op. A cooperative of Drupal professionals is a great way to... Beginner Business + Strategy
A GPS for Drupal: how to record, play and pause documentation and configuration walkthroughs. kvantomme The documentation process in our community is broken. As long as we keep solely depending on a group of dedicated highly altruistic individuals it will never become sustainable. Documentation should... Beginner Coding + Development
Project Management Processes - Get Your Efficiency On MatthewS Learn from my 18 years of Project Management Experience. I've done it all - cowboy, waterfall, extreme, and agile scrum. Learn why... Waterfall doesn't always work Agile has a place, but isn't... Beginner Business + Strategy
Drupal M&A: Under the Covers jwalpole, wesku, Fred Plais, mcaccavano Come on. We know you want to ask. Bring your best questions to a panel of Drupal merger veterans (Phase2, Commerce Guys... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Reloading Rules UX with fluxkraft! fago The Rules module gives superpowers to site-builders by enabling them to define conditionally executed actions based on any occurring event. However, with its current user interface common tasks are... Intermediate User Experience (UX)
Tales from DevOps Hell—Deploying and Maintaining Large-Scale Drupal Sites in the Real World, or How to Accidentally Trigger a Mutiny BMDan As Director of Operations at BlackMesh, I've shepherded the deployment of sites as diverse as the official webpage of a Presidential cabinet-level agency, to the world's largest point-of-sale system... Intermediate DevOps
Social Drupal – To Infinity and Beyond Susan Cato Your website may already be a star, but the online universe is all about shining light beyond your site to include other channels—including social networks, email newsletters, and mobile applications... Advanced Business + Strategy
Parlez-vous Drupal? Translating a complex Drupal site into a second language. Kristen Pol, susanmccormick, Aimee Degnan, mrf What happens if your client has a complex Drupal website and decides it needs to handle another language? What if you need to develop and maintain the two sites separately: the old one and the new... Intermediate Site Building
Outsourcing Drupal - A 360º View MatthewS, csg, lindsayo, ohthehugemanatee An outsourcER and outsourceEE firm provide a 360º overview of their relationship and why it works. We show how two shops - one in the United States and one in Hungary - have embraced outsourcing to... Beginner Business + Strategy
Who's on First? Building Knowledge Management Systems in Drupal rgs Learn how Drupal can be used to create sophisticated e-learning platforms across different industries and segments. Take a tour of knowledge management functionality built for industry leaders... Beginner Site Building
Behaviour-driven development and regression testing with Behat alberto56 Learn how TP1 and the STM (Montreal's transit authority) are managing stakeholder expectations, regression tests and the team's understanding of specifications using Behat, Mink and Selenium.... Intermediate Coding + Development
DevOps 101: building a development environment for a Drupal shop ohthehugemanatee, MatthewS Do you know someone who's starting their own Drupal shop? Have they asked you for help yet? Around the world, individual Drupalists are starting their own consulting firms. Just take a look at... Beginner DevOps
How Drupal is Bringing Value to Academia Research jyee, irinaz Drupal is becoming a powerful research tool that relieves faculty and researchers from working on creating and managing databases and user interface tools and allows them to focus on actual research... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Content Strategy for Search Driven User Experience with Google Search Appliance and Drupal shawnmole, mistcat On some sites, especially those with large amounts of evergreen content, a user's experience is heavily biased towards searching. Designing for search can yield great benefits, and a good search can... Intermediate Government, Nonprofit, and Education
100 modules and a baby Dave Reid, Oliver Reid While I have been a Drupal developer, I've gone through several major life changes in the last two years alone. I started my first real full-time Drupal job, I got married, and last October I became... Beginner Community
Schema.org-based Drupal Development Sheldon Rampton, scor Schema.org was created to provide “a collection of schemas ... that webmasters can use to markup their pages in ways recognized by major search providers.” It is part of a broader effort to develop... Intermediate Coding + Development
Distributing the CMS jeppehamming, Hugo Wetterberg When you build a high scale media site, you always get caught in between. You want to have a distributed setup with several independent sites, but at the same time you want to be able to share... Intermediate Coding + Development
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

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