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Upcoming Webinar: Migrating The Weather Channel Onto Drupal
The Weather Channel (TWC) has one of the most trafficked websites in the world, which makes it one of the largest Drupal sites in the world.But in terms of web experience for its visitors, the forecast...
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Protect thyself! Don't send TESTING emails to REAL users
Have you ever accidentally triggered emails to real users while working in a development environment? Or how about accidentally pushed data to a "live" third party service from a development...
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New Year's Resolutions: Drupal Edition
Lose weight. Eat better. Run a 5K. Travel more. These are resolutions we all make year after year. But this year, we challenged our team to think outside the box and inside the drop. Now that 2014 has...
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Keene Drupal Users Group
Dates: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 6:00pmWednesday, February 25, 2015 - 6:00pmWednesday, March 25, 2015 - 6:00pmWednesday, April 22, 2015 - 6:00pmWednesday, May 27, 2015 - 6:00pmDetails: Join us the...
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Drupal Strategy Tactics and Tools for 2015
As if the holidays are not busy enough, for many of you it’s also crunch time in planning your marketing and digital efforts for 2015.To ease some of the pressure, we can help get your Drupal website...
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Understanding the Value of a Drupal-centric Agency
Over the last 7+ years, I’ve talked to hundreds of prospects and customers regarding their strategy for ongoing Drupal-based website support. Most organizations tend to agree that their web presence is...
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Introducing the Mediacurrent Contrib Committee
After Mediacurrent's excellent retreat in October 2014 it was decided to set up some internal committees to help organize various company initiatives. Several of these committees were fairly straight...
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How to prettify the output from your remote drush commands
Have you noticed how the output from your remote drush commands wraps at awkward lengths? This is especially annoying with features commands:Well, here's a quick fix! Throw this snippet into your drush...
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Level up your Drush-Fu with aliases that work across all environments
Have you noticed how your remote drush aliases (e.g., @my-dev-server) don't work when you're logged into the remote server? It's because aliases with the "remote-host" key specified can't work locally....
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Don’t write a new SSO system (if you can help it)
A somewhat common request for projects, especially intranets, is to provide a single sign-on (SSO) system. At a rudimentary level, an SSO system allows one site to handle all logins (authentication)...
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SprintWeekend2015: A review of Mediacurrent's participation
While we at Mediacurrent have been trying to bring internal focus and organization to our contributions, the rest of the Drupal community was planning a “Sprint Weekend” for January 17th and 18th.For...
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Dynamic Data in Quick Tabs
Quick Tabs is a great module, but if your tabs are named Today, Tomorrow, and the name of the day of the week for the next day, it is not obvious how to make the third tab say “Saturday”, “Sunday”, or...
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Why Isn't My Page Caching?
To many Drupal developers, Varnish is a black magic. When it works, we marvel at its speed; when it’s broken, we break out in cold sweat. Recently, a client of ours needed to figure out why their...
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Introducing the Mediacurrent Dropcast!
Our inaugural episode. Team Kool-Aide starts a podcast and we talk about a variety of topics taken from The Weekly Drop.Your browser does not support the audio element.Episode 0 Audio Download Link...
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Contrib Committee Progress Report for January 2015
When we started on our plan to organize Mediacurrent's contributions at the start of the month we had certain goals in mind. The first was to improve collaboration amongst our staff, to help and learn...
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Efficient Drupal Development with Tmux and Tmuxinator
Have you ever wished you could just type one command and load up all of the things you need to work on for a project? Wouldn’t it be nice to have your terminal set up with the correct Drush alias,...
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Migrating Weather.com To Drupal: The Presentation Framework
In November, 2014 Weather.com launched on Drupal, and became one of the highest trafficked websites in the world to utilize an open-source content management system. This was revolutionary because it...
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Mediacurrent Dropcast: Episode 1
We're back again with a new episode! This week we talk lots of Drupal 8.Your browser does not support the audio element.Episode 1 Audio Download Link Show Notes Participants“Team Kool-aide”...
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Charlotte Drupal Drive-In 2015
This past Saturday was the second annual Drupal Drive-in event in Charlotte, North Carolina. Somewhere between a camp and a meetup, the Drive-in was conceived as an informal and ad-hoc gathering by its...
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Premature Optimization is (still) Bad
Knuth is a pretty smart personA long time ago, in a galaxy right here, Donald Knuth wrote “premature optimization is the root of all evil”. This was in his 1974 paper “Structured Programming With Go To...
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