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Solr for Drupal Developers, Part 2: Solr and Drupal, A History

Drupal has included basic site search functionality since its first public release.

Thursday, August 21, 2014 - 14:40

Solr for Drupal Developers, Part 1: Intro to Apache Solr

It's common knowledge in the Drupal community that Apache Solr (and other text-optimized search engines like Elasticsearch) blow

Monday, August 11, 2014 - 19:42

Moving on to Acquia

I wanted to post this here, since this is more of my sounding board for the Drupal community, but the details are on my personal blog: starting October 6, I will

Tuesday, July 29, 2014 - 19:22

Multi-value spatial search with Solr 4.x and Drupal 7

For some time, Solr 3.x and Drupal 7 have been able to do geospatial search (using the location module, geofield, or other modules that stored latitude and longitude coordinates in Drupal that could be indexed by Apache Solr).

Friday, July 11, 2014 - 20:59

DevOps for Humans - Ansible presentation at DrupalCon Austin

I'm still recovering from an intense week of Drupal here in Austin, TX. I kicked things off by walking around the downtown area, then taking the intensive Acquia Drupal Developer Certification exam.

Saturday, June 7, 2014 - 02:17

Thoughts on the Acquia Drupal Developer Certification Exam

tl;dr: I passed, the exam is better than I was expecting, but I still have mixed feelings about Acquia's Drupal Developer Certification program.

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 03:55

DrupalCon Austin 2014 - Notes on my First Timer's Guide

I wrote A First Timer's Guide to DrupalCon two years ago, and 99% of the advice in that post is still relevant.

Monday, May 26, 2014 - 20:50

Drupal and Node.js at STLJS Meetup - Thursday, May 15!

I'll be presenting Node.js and Drupal — Working Together at the STL.JS meetup this Thursday, May 1

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - 03:18

Drupal 8 - A Brief Introduction (DrupalCamp STL.14 Presentation)

I presented Drupal 8 - A Brief Introduction at DrupalCamp STL.14 on April 26, 2014.

Sunday, April 27, 2014 - 18:21

DrupalCon and DrupalCamp news + free DrupalCon ticket!

Friday, April 4, 2014 - 15:19