This year at Drupalcon DC, I'll be doing a session on Patch Testing for Drupal 7. It's long been a premise of mine that patch testing is really fun once you get the hang of it, it's just too hard to learn how the Drupalistas want it done!

Fear no more. I'll make it easy for ya. Come see me at my Drupalcon Patch Testing session and I shall outline a process whereby anyone can download a patch file, install it, figure out what it does, and report the results in a meaningful manner.  read more »

We just got finished installing floor to ceiling whiteboards around some of the offices and common spaces in the Sacramento office. Here's how you can do it without spending thousands of dollars on large whiteboards.

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I'm going to Drupalcon! Whee!

I missed the Szeged conference, but I'll be there at the Washington, DC convention. W00t! I can't wait. I love this stuff.

Recording videos for drupal camps and cons.

I’ve been pleased to be a part of the budding WorkHabit Sessions online video movement, but now that we’ve done video capture for two Drupal camps I have learned a few things that I thought I’d share with the community in case someone else is struggling with the same things we are.  read more »

We've been biten by this on a couple of occasions and I suspect others have struggled with it as well.

When running a process that calls a Drupal function inside of a loop you might encounter memory errors in Drupal. The place that we see it most often is when building import tools. Our code is happily looping over the user data from our import and calling user_save() in Drupal. Or we're grabbing rows from a phpBB database and inserting them as forum posts in Drupal via node_save(). After importing a few thousand rows, the process dies and your web server tells you PHP has run out of memory. So you increase the available memory and your import runs a little longer, but still runs out of memory.  read more »