Tag: performance
Kind words from a client
When working with clients to help solve their problems, we're always interested in the impact. We like to know that the time and the commitment goes beyond "drawing a paycheck." It's rewarding to know that you've done something to help someone else. We received mail from one of our clients the other day and felt compelled to share.
Strange Loop 2011 : Retrospect
At Strange Loop 2010, we were blown away by the diverse knowledge and skill set from the attendees and speakers alike. This year was no exception.
Using Xdebug to find slow code in Drupal
We were recently contracted to improve performance on a large Drupal install. This is a Pressflow site that's been touched by many different hands over the years, a heavily modified theme (~30 custom templates), and over 200 modules. While the site felt snappy, there were some pages that took a long time to load (5-9 seconds).
American Physician Scientists Association
American Physician Scientists Association (APSA) asked us to help them with performance problems on their Drupal/CiviCRM installation. While at first glance, their site was responsive and seemed to perform well, they wanted to improve page load times for authenticated users and views generated pages.
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We often write "throw-away" code for one-off tasks or to scratch our own itch. The source might not be immediately useful for others but the lessons learned are invaluable. We always try to blog, tweet, or share those lessons when appropriate.
- Avalanche Forecast
- Breakout in Processing
- Brewfest Mobile App
- CiviCRM Discount
- CiviCRM Profile Permissions
- Danger Rose Field
- DB Tools
- Image Node Reference
- Linode Drupal StackScript
- Liquid Planner Shell
- OpenVZ Drupal Installer
- Randstring Safari Extension
- RSRA Database
- Ubercart/CiviCRM Integration
- User Login Block
- Webform Download Archive
In the process of writing custom software for our clients, we've also contributed bug fixes, patches, unit tests and documentation to various open source projects.
