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In yesterday's installment of this series we looked at adding some wow factor through the aesthetics of a project. Today's we'll look at: Creating Wow - Service

Often when asked to add a search function to a Drupal website using Apache Solr, many developers/site builders are of the belief that this is some kind of very-hard-to-master black art. They could not be more wrong.

Drupal has a vibrant community supporting it. A lot of people around the world are involved in its development, way more than in a purely technical sense. How do they do it?

I hate spam. It's that little annoyance, just a tiny one, that keeps chipping away. And it gets worse, more intense, more frequent. But can it be beaten? In truth, probably not. But we can go a long way towards lessening it. Which means fewer spam accounts and comments.

I’ve been building websites since 1996. Almost 20 years. I’ve talked a lot about parts of the process - mainly at the technical end of things, but I can’t recall writing a whole pile about the process of building a website. Some parts change from time to time, and I’m sure the process followed today will seem antiquated in a short time. Nonetheless, I’m going to document the process of building a website from start to finish. 

In the first part of this series, “Scalable & Sustainable Media Management for Drupal Websites”, I talked about media management solutions for Drupal. Specifically, I am interested in managing large amounts of files in a reusable manner. The solution I like best at the moment is Scald.

I was given various bits of advice leading up to my attending my first DrupalCon ever. The essence of the one that stuck with me the most is:

Plan. Be realistic. Know you won’t see everything, so make what you do see count.

First on the agenda - get the travel bug out of my system.

It was great. I have a new favourite city, and very fond memories of a real, live Van Gogh.
Monday: explore city. Check.

It's that time of year when the Drupal Ireland community get together for a weekend of Drupal talks, workshops, and the Drupal Ireland Association AGM. As ever, Annertech are sponsoring the event. Not just that, but Mark Conroy (@markconroy) - Annertech's content strategist - is the main organiser, having offered to take up the mantle at Drupal Camp Cork last year.