A Brief Review of the APC Opcode Cache
On my quest to improve a client's Drupal site performance I considered installing the Alternative PHP Cache.
For Better Performance, Don't Use AJAX in Views
Get the most out of (and into) your page cache: Leave AJAX disabled in your Views, especially with exposed filters.
Ground Zero Master Planner Daniel Libeskind's Web Site Launched on Drupal 7
We received the go-ahead from Studio Daniel Libeskind to take their web site live a few weeks ago, but it was presenting here at Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit that we realized we should mention it to the world.
Definitive Guide to Drupal 7: Correction
There is an important correction to be made to the top-selling Drupal book, the Definitive Guide to Drupal 7.
Agaric is Not Hiring (but for you, we might make an exception)
Agaric, as a worker collective, does not have bosses and employees. We have skilled, hard-working teammates coming together to figure out and do ... everything.
First Annual May First People Link Membership Meeting
Congratulations to the new leadership committee for May First People Link!
In Chicago? Don't Have a DrupalCon Ticket Yet? But You're Reading This on a Weekend?
Update: Ticket taken. But if you want to come, please read below the fold.
See Permissions' Machine Names (and much more) with Xray Module for Drupal 7
With Drupal 7's third and final release candidate unleashed on us all this morning, it is long past time to help the #D7CX movement with a seasonal offering of our own.
+1 to Ending comment-to-subscribe on Drupal.org
As starving authors we at Agaric don't have a lot of cash to burn right now, but we've thrown $25 in the project to make it possible to subscribe to drupal.org issues without commenting. (On top of whatever we donated when this request for funding went out a year and a half ago).
Drupal Work Collectives
Agaric proposes the creation of a new kind of workplace, essentially a Drupal commune, but really more like an open source free software idea & brainstorming commune, kind of along the same lines as an artist's or writer's colony.
We're Writing a Book!
Yes it's true, for the past few months we've been hard at work with a lot of other co-authors on The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7.
Agaric Backs Community Coworking Center in NYC
Thinking it would be a great place to work a day or two while in New York City for clients or DrupalCamps, Agaric dropped a few dollars in the Kickstarter fund for New Work City: Community Coworking Center for Independents in NY.
Agaric Sponsors Modulecraft for the Building of Drupal Shared business, Development, and Training Tools
For community shared business, development, and training tools, Agaric throws a little sponsorship at modulecraft.
Agaric Provides Very Minor Assist in Readying Insert Module for Drupal 7
Benjamin Melançon of Agaric helped with a patch for the Drupal 7 version of Insert module.
Agaric?
What the word agaric means and why Agaric took it for our cooperative's name.
Designed to Life
Functionality designed to your life is the Agaric Design signature. Utilizing open source, free software from around the world, Agaric Design websites are impeccably crafted with a modern, sophisticated and understated spirit.
The Story on Agaric
I've always had a passion for good design and healthy coding, even back in the days of owning a web site cart in downtown Natick. Back then, my business partner and I made all natural HTML roll-up web sites and, as an incentive for customers to wait in line, we baked Drupal into different flavored designs.
We could also choose not to connect the final items with a comma, if we were ignoramuses unaware of the Oxford comma. In this case for our example we would see "By Clayton Dewey, Ben Melançon and David Valdez." We are aware, however, so we would enable the series comma option in the In Other Words formatter configuration.
Editor's note: The extreme partisanship in favor of the serial comma is all that Ben contributed to this blog post, but this same unreasoning fervor contributed to starting the module in the first place and creating a PHP package for making lists using the Oxford comma, which the module relies upon.
If we want text before or after, that is also an option. In this case, preceding the authors with "By " is a nice way to denote attribution.
It is worth noting, though, that In Other Words module can count! To display different preceding or following text if only one item is present, put the plural version first and then a | (pipe symbol) and the singular version. We could have configured the field display to hide the "Author(s)" label and configured the field format to have Text before of "Authors: |Author: " if we wanted to keep a more regimented style while including the nicety of precise labels. This feature can also be used for subject-verb agreement, "Jim and Steph are the authors" and "Steph is the author" could be achieved by configuring the Text after to be " are the authors| is the author". (This is a place where we could improve how intuitive the interface is, for sure.)
