Drupal

Need defined

HTML can only say that the span of text "ID586172" is something that should be positioned near "Acme Gizmo" and "$199", etc. There is no way to say "this is a catalog" or even to establish that "Acme Gizmo" is a kind of title or that "$199" is a price. There is also no way to express that these pieces of information are bound together in describing a discrete item, distinct from other items perhaps listed on the page.

Semantic Web

The semantic web comprises the standards and tools of XML, XML Schema, RDF, RDF Schema and OWL that are organized in the Semantic Web Stack. The OWL Web Ontology Language Overview describes the function and relationship of each of these components of the semantic web:

Boost is a contributed module that provides static page caching for Drupal websites. It can help you realize a significant performance increase for personal blogs, small business, corporate sites, portals and directories that receive mostly anonymous traffic.The built-in crawler makes sure expired content is quickly regenerated for fast page loading.

What is Google Page Speed?

Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them.

How To Optimize Your Site With GZIP Compression

Compression is a simple, effective way to save bandwidth and speed up your site. I hesitated when recommending gzip compression when speeding up your javascript because of problems in older browsers.

But it’s the 21st century. Most of my traffic comes from modern browsers, and quite frankly, most of my users are fairly tech-savvy. I don’t want to slow everyone else down because somebody is chugging along on IE 4.0 on Windows 95. Google and Yahoo use gzip compression. A modern browser is needed to enjoy modern web content and modern web speed — so gzip encoding it is. Here’s how to set it up.

Wait, wait, wait: Why are we doing this?

Before we start I should explain what content encoding is. When you request a file like http://www.yahoo.com/index.html, your browser talks to a web server. The conversation goes a little like this:

These are some of my favorite keynote speaches:

Eric Schmidt at Morgan Stanley on Technology Directions

• In 5 years Technology will be 10 times, in 10 years 100 times as powerful.
• Phones with 1 Mbit connections will be everywhere, Large monitors with fiber
• Client server is replace with cloud computing based on LAMP
• Sales Team revenuereplaced by Advertizing revenue
  

Dries Buytaert at Drupal Conf 2010 SF DrupalconSF

Eric Schmidt at Mobile World Congress

John Mancini AIIM 2010 Keynote (click to view)

Linus Torvalds on git

Version 2 has been released for two months and is stable.  Greg took over as maintainer and cleaned out the issue queue and released a stable version of Web services module. View the video here.

Web services uses in Drupal have historically been for Flash, however lately use for Mobile applications has taken off.

The way web services work:

1. Servers receive requests from devices
2. Authentication validates the correct access
3. Services process the request and return a result through the servers to the device

This was a great presentation. 

Doug Vann & Rain Breaw made reference to a presentation on views done 2009 in Los Angeles.

Drush is a command line shell and Unix scripting interface that automates may administration tasks for Drupal.  The new drush version 4 adds commands.  You can read the documentation to explain more.  There is also the drush.org web site at drush.ws. Look for examples at:<drush path>/examples/ 

Overview of steps

1. Install Composer
2. Add composer's bin directory to the system path by placing export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH" into your ~/.bash_profile (Mac OS users) or into your ~/.bashrc (Linux users).
3. Install latest stable Drush: composer global require drush/drush
4. Verify that Drush works: drush status

1. To install Composer on Centos, Red hat or Fedora

Follow the instructions put together by idroot

Step 1. First let’s start by ensuring your system is up-to-date.

yum -y update

Step 2. Installing Composer.

Download and install Composer by executing the following command:

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Once the process completes, you can make the ‘composer.phar’ file executable by running the following command:

"Cloud Computing does not mean what you think it does.  Open Web services and Open Data are just as important as Open source code."

• Cloud computing does not mean what you think it means, The cloud includes:
  • Devices acting as sensors
  • Devices whose UT is on the Web
  • Data from and to multiple online services (location, search, traffic, imagery)
• The PC is out of the loop
• The Internet Operating System is a Data Operating System
• Who do we want to own the Internet Operating System, (see who owns what)

Tim referred to his blogs The War for the Web, and The State of the Internet Operating System.  Also, he referred to the blog Truly Open Data.

Main Points:

• DIY Spirit.
• Need Open Data
• Real time, traffic one minute ago is not good enough
• Technology keeps evolving.
• Work on stuff that matters.

Examples:

Dries Buytaert welcomed us by saying he was a little nervous facing the 3000 people at DrupalCon SF this year.  He got started by showing a web site Drupalistas stuck in Europe.

This is the first year the Drupal Keynotes are broadcast with live video over the web. 

2.8 million hits per day by Khalid Baheyeldin from 2bits.com

Took a site from .4 million hits, 96,000 hits per week. 65K users 15K Nodes.  Site was locking up every few days

How did we do it?

• Click here to see a video of the presentation
• Click here to see the slides
  

We did not use any of the modules.

Problems

excessive swaping

Many services running that not needed like FTP

No PHP accelerator, no memcache