Drupal Founder, Dries Buytaert, to Keynote GitKon 2022

GitKraken, the world’s leader in creating premier Git tools for software developers, will host the 2nd annual GitKon tech conference 11-13 October 2022. This free, virtual event will bring together developers, technical teams, managers, executives, and thought leaders united by a passion for software development, team collaboration, and Git.  The event will offer 36 sessions across three days of content with speakers from companies like GitHub, GitLab, Microsoft and VS Code,

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Libsyn Podcast : Talking Drupal #365

Today we are talking about The Event Platform with Kaleem Clarkson & Martin Anderson-Clutz. www.talkingDrupal.com/365 Topics Where the idea originated What are the main goals What does it do out of the box Is this a Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) Replacement Why make a module and not a distribution Does this follow the new recipe or starter kit concept Which theme do you target What is on the roadmap Where

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Drupal 9: Debugging Cache Problems With The Cache Review Module

Drupal has a robust and dynamic cache system that allows complex pages to have different parts of it cached in different ways. Having a cache means that Drupal doesn’t need to go back to the database and ask all the elements of the page to re-render everything for every page request. The results of the render can be stored in a cache and served much faster than having to recreate

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Top Drupal blog posts from August 2022

The last month of summer treated us to a whole bunch of great Drupal-related articles. Here are some of our top picks.   Open source runs on non-code contributions We’re kicking off this month’s selection with an article that’s more broadly about open source rather than specifically about Drupal, in which John Picozzi talks about non-code contributions to open-source projects. The article is a recap of John’s session from the

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Drupal Commerce development sprint at DrupalCon Prague

It’s been three years since DrupalCon Amsterdam, the last time we were able to bring our American and European teams together at a DrupalCon. In remote work years, that’s practically an eternity, so we’re stoked to be back together again during DrupalCon Prague. 🤘🏼 This time around we decided to “focus on us” after a busy summer of client project launches coordinated around vacation schedules. Instead of staffing a booth, we’ll

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Join strategic and community initiatives at DrupalCon Prague

DrupalCon Prague is next week with more than a thousand in-person attendees and leads of various key initiatives there. Meet the leaders of improvements to Drupal core and drupal.org and advance the platform together! Here are chances to meet them and connect. Keynotes The Drupal Initiative Leads keynote on Tuesday at 1:30pm will feature Lauri Eskola (CKEditor 5), Leslie Glynn (Project Browser), Ted Bowman (Automatic Updates), Marine Gandy (localize.drupal.org’s Drupal

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DrupalCon Prague 2022: expectations of a first-time attendee

Among the multitude of Drupal events, DrupalCon is the one that makes the hearts of thousands of Drupalers beat with special excitement. This September, DrupalCon Europe will take place in the magical city of Prague. It will gather Drupal developers, project managers, content strategists, marketers — and the list goes on for the job titles of folks who attend the event for insights, networking, skill-sharing, and inspiration. Among them, there

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Board Election 2022 Candidate: Meet Nikki Flores

Who are you? (biography/background) Greetings to the coordinators and voters, my name is Monica “Nikki” Flores and I am currently a Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) and technical project manager and co-owner at Lullabot, a strategy, design, and development agency supporting redevelopment/new rollouts for Fortune 500 brands, government agencies, higher education, publishers, and enterprise technology companies. I love the web and learned to code in 1999. Since 2004, I’ve worked on 200+

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Drupal Cache Strategy with Varnish and Edge CDN on Acquia

The requirement is to cache content for as long as possible, but update promptly when content changes are made in Drupal.  Note that in this setup I’m using Acquia Edge powered by Cloudflare, but the strategy would be similar for Acquia Edge powered by Akamai. The objective is to bootstrap Drupal as infrequently as possible, by relying on the Varnish and CDN layers, but always to serve fresh content: Cache

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Těšíme se na Vás v Praze!

Po devíti letech se ve dnech 20. až 23. září do Prahy vrací DrupalCon. Kuoni Tumlare Congress ve spolupráci s Drupal Asociací Vás zve na další evropský ročník konference věnované Drupalu, její komunitě a příbuzným technologiím.   Na co se můžete těšit?  Více než tisíc mezinárodních účastníků  Program nabitý informacemi  Keynotes včetně přednášky samotného zakladate Drupal platformy – Driese Buyterta  Společenské události  A mnohé další    Na programu se podílí

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