Comments for Renee Stephen dot com http://www.reneestephen.com Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:45:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Stop wasting my time! (or: a primer on using Drupal properly) by Ivan Grynenko http://www.reneestephen.com/2011/05/stop-wasting-time/#comment-512 Ivan Grynenko Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:45:05 +0000 http://www.reneestephen.com/?p=89#comment-512 Sounds like if I wrote this post :) Can't agree more. Sounds like if I wrote this post :) Can’t agree more.

]]> Comment on Stop wasting my time! (or: a primer on using Drupal properly) by Makalah http://www.reneestephen.com/2011/05/stop-wasting-time/#comment-507 Makalah Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:34:19 +0000 http://www.reneestephen.com/?p=89#comment-507 You know what, I'm very much inlicned to agree. You know what, I’m very much inlicned to agree.

]]> Comment on Mind: blown (or: How to use Drupal’s post teasers properly) by Gord Christmas http://www.reneestephen.com/2011/08/mind-blown-or-how-to-use-drupals-post-teasers-properly/#comment-496 Gord Christmas Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:45:02 +0000 http://www.reneestephen.com/?p=122#comment-496 Great post! The idea is one that I have implemented on a number of sites. It required buy in from everyone on the team to be truly successful. With Drupal 7, you can now define other modes beyond full node, teaser display. With that in mind, you could essentially model any variation needed, as in sidebar or block mode? The default wrappers and formatting for fields is often way more than needed, enter Semantic CCK. With this module you can define at the field level exactly the CSS/XHTML you want. With this combo, using the display field settings, and the Field permissions module you could setup a very dynamic display that is consistent across the entire site with zero code. I am a fan of tpl files as they are so easily versionable, with the proper caching setup any node load issues are mitigated with ease. Semantic CCK does work with Features, so as an alternative to tpl files, creating a nicely setup Feature with your styling can now cross the theme barrier that tpl file present. That kind of setup is really where it is at, a layout of node content by mode, implemented via Features and not abused by template files or crazy complicated views with field output overrides. Cheers! Gord. Great post! The idea is one that I have implemented on a number of sites. It required buy in from everyone on the team to be truly successful.

With Drupal 7, you can now define other modes beyond full node, teaser display. With that in mind, you could essentially model any variation needed, as in sidebar or block mode?

The default wrappers and formatting for fields is often way more than needed, enter Semantic CCK. With this module you can define at the field level exactly the CSS/XHTML you want. With this combo, using the display field settings, and the Field permissions module you could setup a very dynamic display that is consistent across the entire site with zero code.

I am a fan of tpl files as they are so easily versionable, with the proper caching setup any node load issues are mitigated with ease. Semantic CCK does work with Features, so as an alternative to tpl files, creating a nicely setup Feature with your styling can now cross the theme barrier that tpl file present.

That kind of setup is really where it is at, a layout of node content by mode, implemented via Features and not abused by template files or crazy complicated views with field output overrides.

Cheers!
Gord.

]]> Comment on Stop wasting my time! (or: a primer on using Drupal properly) by chris bovard http://www.reneestephen.com/2011/05/stop-wasting-time/#comment-483 chris bovard Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:51:27 +0000 http://www.reneestephen.com/?p=89#comment-483 I love this post. So true!!! Keep it up. chris I love this post. So true!!!
Keep it up.
chris

]]> Comment on Stop wasting my time! (or: a primer on using Drupal properly) by Renee http://www.reneestephen.com/2011/05/stop-wasting-time/#comment-480 Renee Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:35:00 +0000 http://www.reneestephen.com/?p=89#comment-480 Thanks, Sharon! Your blog's got a lot of great stuff, also. :) Thanks, Sharon! Your blog’s got a lot of great stuff, also. :)

]]> Comment on Stop wasting my time! (or: a primer on using Drupal properly) by Sharon Krossa http://www.reneestephen.com/2011/05/stop-wasting-time/#comment-479 Sharon Krossa Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:18:52 +0000 http://www.reneestephen.com/?p=89#comment-479 Excellent post! I'll be referencing this a lot in the future. Excellent post! I’ll be referencing this a lot in the future.

]]> Comment on Stop wasting my time! (or: a primer on using Drupal properly) by ha5bro http://www.reneestephen.com/2011/05/stop-wasting-time/#comment-476 ha5bro Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:19:10 +0000 http://www.reneestephen.com/?p=89#comment-476 Couldn't agree more. The urge to program is uncontrollable for some of us. While coding skills can obviously make or break a project, the ability to read and keep informed about the Drupal ecosystem is equally important. Why waste a lot of time and money re-inventing something? Experimentation and improving code sometimes make it necessary to leap forward, but not in a production environment if it can be avoided. Couldn’t agree more. The urge to program is uncontrollable for some of us. While coding skills can obviously make or break a project, the ability to read and keep informed about the Drupal ecosystem is equally important. Why waste a lot of time and money re-inventing something? Experimentation and improving code sometimes make it necessary to leap forward, but not in a production environment if it can be avoided.

]]> Comment on How to handle taxonomies – CCK Fields or default? by Renee http://www.reneestephen.com/2011/03/how-to-handle-taxonomies-cck-fields-or-default/#comment-470 Renee Tue, 24 May 2011 19:35:55 +0000 http://www.reinette.ca/?p=73#comment-470 Er, OK, I'm not exactly sure what you mean - there is an issue because of an outdated conception of taxonomy, and I've solved it by using tools that repackage that conception in a more modern way. Short of ditching taxonomy altogether (which loses the power of filtering and various other things) I'm not exactly sure what you'd propose. Er, OK, I’m not exactly sure what you mean – there is an issue because of an outdated conception of taxonomy, and I’ve solved it by using tools that repackage that conception in a more modern way. Short of ditching taxonomy altogether (which loses the power of filtering and various other things) I’m not exactly sure what you’d propose.

]]> Comment on Drupal Performance (Post 1 of 32492) by Renee http://www.reneestephen.com/2011/03/drupal-performance-post-1-of-32492/#comment-468 Renee Tue, 24 May 2011 19:10:35 +0000 http://www.reinette.ca/?p=77#comment-468 Thanks for the feedback, I'm glad it helped. *muttering mean things about APC* Thanks for the feedback, I’m glad it helped. *muttering mean things about APC*

]]> Comment on Drupal Performance (Post 1 of 32492) by Ted Wood http://www.reneestephen.com/2011/03/drupal-performance-post-1-of-32492/#comment-124 Ted Wood Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:25:50 +0000 http://www.reinette.ca/?p=77#comment-124 I've been running three separate cPanel VPS gigs for the past several years and thought that I was getting good performance. I spent hours upon hours tweaking my code and the server to minimize page load times. But I recently switched to a bare-bones server running Nginx and with the exact same code I'm getting 10x (10 times) the performance. And pages snap into place without even a hesitation. It's amazing! I’ve been running three separate cPanel VPS gigs for the past several years and thought that I was getting good performance. I spent hours upon hours tweaking my code and the server to minimize page load times. But I recently switched to a bare-bones server running Nginx and with the exact same code I’m getting 10x (10 times) the performance. And pages snap into place without even a hesitation. It’s amazing!

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