Loading data into Drupal

Migrating content of any kind into a different system is almost always an inevitable headache. A process of auditing the previous system, normalizing who-knows-how-long's amount of data, and bringing all of that together in a harmonious flow from old to new. In the past we have discussed: the procedures you might take to prepare your data, custom PHP coding that could facilitate a specific import case, and also...


'Varnish' Your Drupal Setup

For every high performance website that gets hammered by a decent traffic volume, some sort of caching mechanism is essential and Drupal is no exception.  The Drupal caching approach, to a great extent, depends upon the type of visitors who frequent the website and this suggests different Drupal specific caching techniques depending upon the type of visitors to the website; for instance if the predominant visitors to the website are authenticated users versus unauthenticated.  So in this blog, I’d like to discuss Varnish as a caching option for...


Drupal - Part II

I can’t resist the urge to write this, but winter is officially over today and I didn’t have to use the snow blower (not even the snow shovel) a single time this winter season (no, I don’t live in Florida) and at this pace, odds are, in few years I’ll never have to wear any winter clothing; I love global warming. Back to business; so we touched base a short while back on a potential Web Content Management (WCM) tool as a potential replacement for WebCenter Interaction (WCI): ...


How About Drupal?

  It is a soul searching time for many of WebCenter Interaction (WCI) customers as the product’s remaining lifespan is approaching retirement and its residual years are numbered in a single digit.  Some customers are contemplating sticking with the WCI stack and perhaps upgrade to 10gR4 making the best out of the product’s lifetime, others are considering other Oracle enterprise solutions:...


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