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Our Slides from Drupal Camp NYC 8

Evolving Web had a great time at Drupal Camp NYC last weekend. The camp was a huge success thanks to the excellent turn-out and presentations on exciting topics such as administrative interfaces, Context, and Drupal security. The team of organizers who put the camp together did an amazing job!

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Evolving Web at Drupal Camp NYC 8

This weekend, Evolving Web is down in New York for DrupalCamp NYC 8. The camp has had a great turnout and we're really excited to be here and sponsoring the camp. Evolving Web is presenting at five sessions over the two-day camp.

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CCK Formatters: Creating an Audio Widget from a URL

CCK formatters are useful for theming content in a sustainable way. Instead of creating piles of template files to format content types, you can create re-usable CCK formatters and select how your fields are formatted using the "Display Fields" tab of a content type.

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Flattening Content in the Book Module

Deep menu trees are not fun to navigate and make for an awkward user interface. We recently faced the challenge of how to simplify the book module's navigation so users wouldn't have to dig down through many levels of navigation.

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Setting up a High-Performance Distributed Drupal in the Cloud

Jeff and I are proposing a session for DrupalCon Copenhagen. At DrupalCon San Francisco, I was struck by how many people had questions about high performance Drupal. Many of them were thinking of moving to the cloud.

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Login from the Command Line with Drush Login Link

When starting to develop a new Drupal site, there are a couple of things that you need to do first. You need to log on to your development server, probably done through the command line over SSH), and you need to log on to your site via the browser. My word! Two authentications! Wouldn't it be nice if this dreary, menial task could be accomplished with a spiffy command line tool?

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Theming Views in Drupal with Templates and Preprocess Functions

If you're building a large website in Drupal, you're likely to have a long list of views that you're using. Often, views require some custom configuration to match a given design or to provide the user with additional information. Sometimes you want to add dynamic text above or below the view, such as the number of results, or want to create a dynamic title beyond what views lets you configure through the user interface.

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Apache Solr and Multilingual Theming at Drupal Design Camp

Evolving Web had an awesome time at Drupal Design Camp this weekend. It was a great success with hundreds of Drupal designers, themers, developers, and site builders in attendance from the northeastern states and beyond.

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McGill University Health Centre Case Study

The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), is one of the most comprehensive university health centres in North America. It includes a network of five major hospitals and is both a patient and research-oriented organization.

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Controlling Your Cloud with Puppet

If you haven't noticed already, we are getting pretty excited about cloud computing at Evolving Web. Our latest deployment included 5 Rackspace Cloud servers being controlled by Puppet and provided the client with the ability to scale up and down easily depending on traffic. Scaling up involves spinning up a new server instance and configuring it for its role. But what is the best way to configure it? By hand? By scripts? By images? Well technically any of those methods will work, but I want to tell you about one you may not have heard of.

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