Web Development

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At DrupalCamp NYC last Saturday, I gave a session on data migration using Feeds and Migrate 2.x called Getting your data into Drupal. The session slides and screenshots of the live demo are now up at http://mvc.koumbit.org/presentations/2011-drupalcampnyc/. Enjoy!

Points covered by the talk include:

Je viens de terminer les modifications à une de mes extensions pour la faire fonctionner sur Joomla 1.6. Il n'y a pas énormément de changement à faire. La différence entre les version 1.5 et 1.6 n'est absolument pas aussi grande qu'entre les versions 1.0 et 1.5. Je vais donc énumérer ici les principales modifications que j'ai eu à faire. Ça ne couvre pas tout les changements de l'API 1.6 mais c'est un bon début.

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According to Wikipedia, continuous integration

implements continuous processes of applying quality control — small pieces of effort, applied frequently.

This is part 1 of my March 9th 2011 Confoo presentation. Refer to the Table of Contents for the other parts.

This is a meta-presentation. It's a presentation of the tools and things I've used to build and perform the actual presentation I gave. It is not directly related to Pyramid or Python.

This is part 6 of my March 9th 2011 Confoo presentation. Refer to the Table of Contents for the other parts.

The original announcement for my Confoo presentation was to use RabbitMQ to do real-time communications, but then, after finding a way to use Redis to do it, I found it was simpler and more straight-forward for a live demo.

When developing web applications, we often run into performance issues. People often blame PHP or MySQL for bad performance, but in most case the answer is not that easy. Blindly trying to optimize random parts of our applications can lead to some uneven results.

There are many available tools to profile a PHP application. Learning how to use them can help us pinpoint which parts are slow. With this information we can pick the optimizations that will give us the best results.

This is part 5 of my March 9th 2011 Confoo presentation. Refer to the Table of Contents for the other parts.

This is part 4 of my March 9th 2011 Confoo presentation. Refer to the Table of Contents for the other parts.