Patrick J Waters

Recently I had the privilege of being part of a team that converted the BMJ (British Medical Journal) to Drupal. The BMJ (British Medical Journal) is one of the world’s top five international peer reviewed medical journals with more than 1.5 million unique visitors and 6.8 million page views per month.You can read the about the project and it's success at http://drupal.org/node/1557636

Recently I decided to check out Amazon Cloudfront to use as a cdn. I had a delighted experience with it. It was so easy to setup with drupal and configured so easy in just a few steps.

Drupal can be mysterious in many ways sometimes. Tying to do the simplest things can become a complex series of function calls, that sometimes makes your head hurt tyring to remember everything. http://api.drupal.org can usually give you the answer you are looking for, if you know how to find it. Recently I had to figure out how to create a full path to a file from a file object uri and wanted to share this information. 

New Relic is the all-in-one web application performance tool that lets you see performance from the end user experience down to the line of application code. Check out New Relic at http://newrelic.com/

Step 1: Setup repository and install packages

First become root

[pwaters@drupal-dev-pwaters ~]$ sudo su -

First you need  to add New Relics repositries to your server

32 bit

After many hours of banging my head against the keyboard I finally have custom syntax highlighting with ckeditor in Drupal 6. When I first set out to add this feature I thought it would be as easy as trun a module on and your good to go. Turns out that isn't the case. I originally tried to use GeSHi with the wysiwyg module and the ckeditor javascript library. I got subpar results with this method.

With the rise of mobile applications for smart phones, working with an IDE that's versatile is important.