I am assisting in the search for a Drupal developer for one of my projects.

We are seeking a mid- to senior-level Drupal 6 developer to help finish and launch an application which lists Horse show events and allows for online registrations and payments. This is an entirely new application for a start-up company based in northern Virginia; this is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a totally new concept and to contribute to decision-making and overall success of the project.

Drupal has a great built-in caching mechanism that can significantly improve your site's performance, particularly for anonymous users. Once enabled, Drupal will automatically cache entire page views, on top of the automatic caching it does for menus, site variables, and content that has been filtered. Like most other aspects of Drupal, the caching system is extensible and is fully available to your custom module. There are two key aspects to learn for this technique: the Cache schema and the Cache API.

DrupalCon SF 2010
I've just registered to attend DrupcalCon SF in San Francisco. This will be my first big Drupal event, as I've only attended local meetups before.

I've already setup my profile and chosen the sessions that I plan to attend. I very excited to get to meet lots of great Drupalers, learn a TON about Drupal and just generally have a good time.

The event is amazingly cheap for a conference - only $220 for a ticket for 3 days which includes full...

I recently responded to a Drupal forum question about adding a simple, visual progress bar to a website. While there are plenty of libraries for sophisticated graphing, since the user had a simple problem I proposed a simple solution based on just a little HTML and CSS.

The user wanted the value of the progress bar to be based on a number stored in his Drupal custom content type. So, I had him create a new theme file named “node-project.tpl.php" and add code to pull out the value and create a two DIV set. The outer DIV is the progress bar container, and the inner DIV displays the progress value.

Since you can’t directly program CSS, the solution uses an in-line style element. While normally you strive to avoid using these, in this case we are limiting its use to controlling only the width of the inner DIV; we will control all over attributes in the CSS, where they belong.

Note that the PHP code includes checks of the...