Drupal
Here's a Summary of my Presentation at DrupalCamp Asheville (NC), September 18, 2010.
We tested Boost on www.busbeetruckparts.com and a test version of www.tylerbrothers.net. Both of these sites have mostly anonymous users and fairly static content. They are both hosted on a shared hosting service. These factors make them good candidates for Boost.
You can get to the Boost Project at www.drupal.org/project/boost.
Apache Bench (ab) is a performance measurement tool that comes with Apache. It comes natively on a Mac. If you are using a PC, you need to load the WAMP or XAMPP stack to get Apache and ab. Some links about ab and XAMPP:
XAMPP or XAMPP lite on a Windows machine:
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html#646
More info on the process:
The first ever Drupal Camp South Carolina is coming up this Sunday and I am giving a presentation called "Which Drupal Modules Should I Use?" The presentation is geared toward people who are new to Drupal and lost in determining which of the 5000+ contributed modules to use.
You can download the PDF or the PPT file at www.broadstreetconsulting.net/ppt.
Monday night we had our third Drupal Columbia meet-up at the Richland County Public Library and had 7 attendees. It was exciting and very encouraging since the first two meetings were only 3 people.
Most people attending were new to Drupal but I was glad to see some representatives from Pure Fishing (www.purefishing.com) there. Pure Fishing is a company that owns several well known fishing brands, including Shakespeare, which has long had a presence here in Columbia, and Mitchell, which has a very attractive Drupal Site at www.fishmitchell.com.
I spent quite a bit of time explaining blocks and CCK and views, and Bob from Pure Fishing took a few minutes to show us the MagicZoom feature used on the Mitchell product pages. Very impressive, if you asked me-- here's an example: www.fishmitchell.com/products/reels/avocet%C2%AE-ii-gold-series. You can read more about Magic Zoom here: www.magictoolbox.com/magiczoom
Tommy and I were playing around tonight. I had an idea for a Drupal SC logo, and he has the Photoshop skills. What do you think?
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