Janez Urevc

Latest issue of Linux Journal is completely dedicated to Drupal. You will find a lot of really interesting articles in it. 

One of them is my article about cache in Drupal, where I describe how it works and how to use it. I also compare performance of different cache backends and describe some techniques that will help you to make your website run faster. 

There was my patch committed to Relation module (which is great - if you have not tried it yet definitely do) today, that adds Migrate support to Relation and uses it to provide upgrade path from Term/User/Node/Entity reference fields to Relation.

At Drupal developer days Barcelona I gave a session about cache in Drupal 7. Video and slides are now available for those who missed it. 

Problem

We have a bigger media website on Drupal 7 with an editorial team of ~20 members. Lately they started to complain about strange behavior when updating content on site. They said, that changes were not saved at all. If they opened a node form immediately after saving it Drupal served old (outdated) content. I first suspected Varnish, but it turned out that Varnish worked OK. Later I realized that the problem obviously lies in field cache. 

There was a Drupal Balkan summit taking place in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina, yesterday. The last session, given by perke, was about awesome things that are happening in Drupal 8. When he presented a Views in Core initiative something absolutely awesome happened. People started to collect money to give a common contribution and I transferred $150 to initiative's Chip-in there at the session. 

There are a lot of places, where you need client's IP address in Drupal (or any other CMS/web app of course). The problem arises, when you use a reverse proxy server (like Varnish), since every request to web server will be done by the latter. We will have every single visitor of our website coming from a single IP (reverse proxy), as a result.

Slovenske novice are Slovenian national daily newspaper with largest circulation on national level. Last week we lunched redesign of it's web variant, which is a news portal with about 200.000 unique visitors and 4.5 million impressions per month. This numbers wil definetely become larger soon, as they have monthly growth between 10 and 15%.

I am currently working on my bachelor thesis at Faculty of Computer and Information Science in Ljubljana. The topic of my thesis is implementation of Scrum methodology in a webdev department of the biggest national daily newspaper company, Delo. 

Derivatives API is a Drupal project I developed during this year's Summer of Code. It is a framework, that tries to implement a simple, reliable and powerfull framework for asset derivation in Drupal. It can cover a lot of different use cases. We are in the times of emerging new technologies of HTML5, mobile publishing, responsive web, ... I believe that Derivatives API has it's piece in a puzzle of support of this new technologies on Drupal. 

Today I had a task to add nodequeue manipulation contextual links to some view. First I found this blog post, which explains, how to make desired menu items contextual links ready. As Marcus states in his post, I first needed to alter nodequeue menu items: