Open Source and More with Drupal Association’s Heather Rocker
Welcome, Heather!
To kickoff women’s history month, we sat down with Drupal Association Executive Director Heather Rocker. Heather brings her experience as the former CEO of GirlsInc. of Greater Atlanta to encourage girls to explore tech careers. In this interview, she reflects on year one in her new role and shares what’s on the horizon for the Drupal community on the path to Drupal 9.
How to Make the Most of Your DrupalCon BOF Experience
DrupalCon Nashville is coming up and that means another chance to create deeper connections with the Drupal community by attending or facilitating Birds of a Feather sessions (BOFs). The DrupalCon team has summarized what a BOF is on the DrupalCon website:
How Drupal is making a difference in South Los Angeles
In the fall of 2012 while doing a talk at a local conference in Los Angeles I was approached by Oscar Menjivar, founder and CEO of Teens eXploring Technology (TxT), a non-profit organization teaching inner city teenagers from South Los Angeles about technology and leadership. Oscar was looking into Drupal as a potential technology to include in the summer coding academy his organization holds every year.
Managing the Drupal Maintenance Challenge - Part 2
In Part 1 of my article on The Drupal Maintenance Challenge & How to Manage It, I raised some interesting problems inherent to planning out and executing a Drupal website project. Now in Part 2, I will give some advice on how to address these challenges based on what I’ve learned in my time as a web developer.
Managing the Drupal Maintenance Challenge - Part 1
One of Drupal’s greatest strengths is it’s huge catalog of modules and themes. At the time of this writing, Drupal boasts over 15,000 modules and almost 1,500 themes on Drupal.org. The challenge is knowing which modules, themes to use and how to maintain them with custom code and other customizations throughout the life-cycle of a website.