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Rails Initialization process
require_frameworks
load_paths ( app/controller; app/models...)
load_environment
load_plugins
load_observers
after_initializeRead more >>

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) comes with nginx 0.6.34. This nginx worked fine, until one day I tried to use "try_files". Nginx returned error : "Unknown directive: 'try_files'". Later I learnt only nginx version 0.6.36+, 0.7.27+ or 0.8.x support the 'try_files' command. So, I decided to upgrade my nginx to the newest stable version, and it turned out the process was so hard:Read more >>

While it is not hard to create a new block region in drupal 6, to create one before comments section
is not as easy to many people. I have managed to add a new block region above the comments, and moved the "similar term" block into it. You can see the result on this page. Here is how I did it:Read more >>

Block regions are used to control drupal theme layout. Most of Drupal themes come with five regions:

Left sidebar
Right sidebar
Content
Header
Footer

What if you want more regions? Here I will show you how to create a new one.Read more >>

The new version of drupal 6, Drupal 6.14 was out. New drupal fixes some bugs and as well as critical security vulnerabilities, so upgrading is strongly recommended.

There is a upgrade instruction along with the drupal files (UPGRADE.txt), but I think it is a bit long, so I decide to rewrite it to make it shorter:Read more >>

Enabling drupal cache, drupal will save cached data to database and send data from database whenever the data is required. This save up time to query database and build pages / blocks from php code, hence the performance of your drupal site is significantly boost. But there is still a way to speed up your site to be even faster -- to save the cached data directly into server's memory and fetch from it. Memcached, a high-performance memory caching system is the tool for the solution. This post is an answer to the question of how to integrate memcached and drupal to speed up your site.Read more >>

To run your drupal site on nginx, the lightweight web server, you will need a custom conf file to make nginx working with php. If you want to enable drupal's clean url function ( maybe you should because a clean url is both more user-friendly and Search Engine friendly ), you will need a additional nginx rewrite rule. I have managed to get drupal 6 working on nginx, and here is what in my nginx configuration file:Read more >>

I wrote a book list for ruby beginners some days ago, now I will make a list for advanced ruby learners:Read more >>

It is not impossible to make you drupal website 10x faster just by some tuning work. If your drupal site is slow, here are some tips that may speed up your drupal site:Read more >>

Many books on programming language ruby have been published during these years. Although it is a good thing, it also is true that picking one from these books is becoming hard and hard. Here I will list 10 of the books on ruby for beginners, and try to tell the differences between them, and hope by doing so, help beginner decide which one suits him or her.

(update: a book list for advanced ruby learners)Read more >>