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Unsticking Yourself as a Drupal Developer: Googling & Getting Feedback

Posted Mon, 01/17/2011 - 11:14 by Steve

Intro

This post is being written for a presentation at the Western Massachusetts Drupal Camp on Jan. 22, 2011. It aims to share tips on getting yourself out of specific problems everyone encounters working as a developer with Drupal sites. Your presenter, Steve Cronen-Townsend a.k.a. crotown, was a Drupal freelancer for almost two years, and a few weeks ago joined Imbee as a full-time software engineer developing their Drupal-based web site.

Steve joins imbee.com

Posted Mon, 01/03/2011 - 22:46 by Steve

I am excited to announce that I have joined imbee.com as a full-time employee, as of today. Imbee.com is a secure social network for kids, and I will be helping grow imbee's technology platform, which is based on Drupal.

Western Massachusetts Drupal Camp

Posted Tue, 12/21/2010 - 12:33 by Steve

The Western Massachusetts Drupal Group, is sponsoring a Drupal Camp to be held Jan. 22, 2011 at UMass Amherst's modern two-year-old Integrated Science Building.

This site is in a cloud

Posted Fri, 12/17/2010 - 17:45 by Steve

This site, along with all others in the crotown.com domain, is now on a Rackspace Cloud Server.

A Smooth Transition for Boston Review

Posted Mon, 11/29/2010 - 23:57 by Steve

[This article describes, in overview, two recent migrations Cronen-Townsend Consulting carried out for Boston Review(BR).]

In order to host their upcoming OpenPublish-based site, BR started renting a Rackspace Cloud Server two months ago. This server will become the server for the new BR site, allows efficient changes to site structure, and can be scaled-up easily to support both their growing average needs and any anticipated spikes in traffic.

But their contract with their previous hosting provider expires on Nov. 31, 2010 and involves a two-year commitment. So, when the new web site was not yet ready to take over in early November, the decision was made to let the old contract lapse and port the old site to the new server. This solution avoided entering another two-year hosting contract to cover the time until the new site is completed, but created a new technical challenge: moving the current site to the new host, so that their site would continue to function (on the new host) when the contract for the old host expires a couple days from now.

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