Join Ryan Price and Mike Anello as they talk to Trevor James (twitter.com/jamesweblabs), one of the co-authors of Drupal 6 Performance Tips from Packt Publishing. Unfortunately, Trevor's co-author, TJ Holowyachuk, was unable to take part in the interview.
Drupal 6 Performance Tips is a new book that focuses on Drupal-based performance technologies. The book covers topics for all levels of Drupal users, starting with keeping your site updated to memcache integration.
Trevor, Ryan, and Mike discuss basic Drupal performance settings, the Boost module, the different aspects of Drupal performance techniques, as well as different types of caching technologies available to Drupal. In addition, Trevor provides some quick tips for different types of Drupal sites and talks about the plethora of additional information available.
Packt Publishing has given us a couple of copies of the book to giveaway - simply leave a comment below (be sure to leave your twitter or drupal.org username so we have some way to contact you) and we'll pick two winners at random.
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I would love a copy!
Sounds like a great book!
drupal.org = jimmynash
twitter = jnasharu
Thanks for the fantastic podcasts! Keep up the great work!
Would love to get a copy of this
I could really use this book. Am currently learning Drupal using Dreamhost and am less than happy with the performance results.
See you at Design 4 Drupal at MIT.
contact: james dot brockman at gmail dot com
Thanks!
Nebraska Rocks!
I'm from Lincoln, just 50 miles away from Omaha. Loved the podcast. We are in the process of implementing drupal as an option to update web content sitewide at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Book request
Solid interview -- thanks for making it available.
I'm currently building a Drupal site with a lot of multimedia, and would benefit greatly from reading that book.
Thank you!
-mjross (on Drupal.org)
Omaha Bookaway Conspiracy
Hey, that's funny. Eric Lawrence and I (Travis Carden) go to the Nebraska Drupal meetup together. Our local Drupal community is slowly coalescing. We know there are more Drupalers in the area that aren't attending. Come join us!
Great stuff - I just got
Great stuff - I just got Boost installed on a site I've been having trouble with, while listening to the podcast. It's trying to do far too much with hardware we can't upgrade just yet.... Starting to behave better already!
And hey, I'll try my luck-- shaddragon on drupal.org. Thanks!
Boost
Glad to hear all the talk on the Boost module :)
I actually recommend boost for small sites as well; it has some nice settings for sites that get updated fairly infrequently. Usually small sites are on cheap hosting, thus the benefit can be even greater.
-Mikeytown2
Send it over the Atlantic, please.
As always an enjoyable and interesting podcast. Thx!
You can find me on drupal.org as dddave.
Cheers!
Book request
This was a very useful podcast,, as I'm just building my first Drupal site for a community radio station. A copy of the book would be a great help. Thanks!
--futtara at gmail.com.
Great Podcast
Just these days I stumbled about your podcast. Great job - great information!
Regards form makw (on drupal.org )
I'd love to know why my site is so slow....
...perhaps _Drupal 6 Performance Tips_ will tell me !
drupal.org username = bridgehook
twitter = bridgehook
Awesome
I really enjoyed this podcast, Now I learned lot about boost module, Which currently I am playing with. Very Nice module to boost your site performance. Thanks for the awesome podcast.
Regards,
Santhosh Abraham
e-mail: [email protected]
twitter: santhoshabraham
Loved the podcast would love a book
I enjoyed your podcast and got me very interested on the book and would love to be able to add it to my Drupal library.
I can be reached at http://twitter.com/tijeagle
Thanks and keep up the great work.
Antonio
Who knew?
Wow! What great tips on site performance!
http://twitter.com/jsozzi
Boost rocks!
Great episode, guys! We just launched our new web site at the School of Education at University of California, Davis. We're using Boost. It took some tweaking, but it's running great now!
I'd love to get a copy of that book since I'm sure there is more to know about Boost and I still need to do some performance tweaks on it.
In fact, if you're looking for a "Site of the week", check it out!
Shawn DeArmond
Twitter
Forgot to leave my twitter for the book drawing:
http://twitter.com/shawndearmond
Enjoyed the podcast
Enjoyed the podcast would love the book.
http://www.twitter.com/fogofire
Thanks for all the podcasts
Enligtening
Thanks for the podcast that really opened up some avenues for performance boosting my sites!
Ed Davison
[email protected]
D4D!
Hey guys!
I'm a few weeks behind in listening to the podcast (obviously) but I wanted to comment saying I'm excited you're going to come to D4D in June! Last year's event rocked hardcore, and we're hoping this year will be even more kickass! We'll show you guys a great time, for sure.
Also, thanks for the shoutout in the podcast before this one! Though I find it funny I'm known as 'starshaped' and not by my real name :). You guys rock.
Aubrey aka starshaped
Starshaped
It seems like so many people in the community go by their screen name. If you ever meet hardcore IRC people at events, they introduce themselves as "liberatr", and if you tell them you're "Ryan", they ask "what's your real name?"
We're glad to have you as Aubrey or Starshaped, and I look forward to Boston.