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Over the Christmas break I came across gource, a software version control visualization tool. Gource produces really nice visual representations of software projects growing. About 2 years ago David Norman produced a gource video of development of Drupal up to the 7 release. This is pretty cool, but it only shows who committed the patch, not who contributed to it. After some searching I found the Drupal contribution analyzer sandbox project ..read more

One of the many hats I wear these days is Development and Coding Track Chair for DrupalCon Sydney 2013. As outlined in the track description we are planning on showcasing what is awesome today in Drupal 7 and the cool stuff that is coming in Drupal 8. Given that there are no core conversations in Sydney we are trying to put together a more intermediate-to-advanced level track. I want people to come to these sessions and go away with their heads full of ideas about what they can do better in their next project ..read more

In my last blog post I outlined how to use per project installation profiles. If you read that post and want to use installation profiles to take advantage of site wide content changes and centralised dependency management, this post will show you how to do it quickly and easily. The easiest way to switch installation profiles is using the command line with drush. The following command will do it for you ..read more

Unbeknown to many users, installation profiles are what is used to install a Drupal site. The two profiles that ship with core are standard and minimal. Standard gives new users a basic, functional Drupal site. Minimal provides a very minimal configuration so developers and site builders can start building a new site. A key piece of a Drupal distro is an installation profile. I believe that developers and more experienced site builders should be using installation profiles as part of their client sites builds ..read more

Months ago I was searching for a good web front end for git for doing code reviews and browsing repos. My short list ended up being Gitweb and GitLab. Gitweb is a Perl based web front end for git that is a sub project of the official git project. Out of the box Gitweb is pretty ugly and I have never found it to be very user friendly. Even with all of its problems, it does what it does pretty well ..read more