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One of the primary ways of keeping a Drupal site of any size running securely and at peak performance is to ensure that all of its modules stay updated. With thousands of modules in the Drupal eco-system, updates are released literally every day. Luckily, Drupal core's Update Status module helps site administrators keep notified of modules in need of updating. In this article, you'll learn how to use the power of Drush and Apache Subversion (aka "svn"), a revision control tool, to update your site's module quickly and safely. You'll be presented with two methods for solving the problem. The second method is much faster, but comes with a caveat. Read on.

The Drupal Association is trying to figure out the best way it can help DrupalCamp organizers. To that end, we've create a quick survey for DrupalCamp organizers to help the association determine how DrupalCamps are currently organized and managed.

Much has been written in the past couple weeks about the recent DrupalCon SF , the vast majority of it overwhelmingly positive. By most accounts, it was a successful event, with the overwhelming majority of attendees leaving satisfied. Granted, the accounts I read come from sites whose posts are aggregated via Drupal Planet - an admitedly very pro-Drupal crowd.

At first glance at the title of this book, you might be tempted to think that it is not too much more than a reference guide to the complex Ubercart module. Surprisingly, you're only half right. While the authors, George Papadongonas and Yiannis Doxaras, do a great job of covering almost all aspects of the modules that ship with Ubercart, they also go way beyond that.

Ryan Price and Mike Anello from DrupalEasy will be at DrupalCon San Francisco this April with a (hopefully) full agenda. Workshop: Intro to Theme Development DrupalEasy is proud to announce that we've been selected to present one of the official pre-conference workshops for DrupalCon SF on Sunday, April 18. We'll be teaching our beginner-level Intro to Theme Development workshop. In this course you'll learn the anatomy of a theme, basic XHTML/CSS/PHP, and basic template modifications. By the end of the day, you should be able to take a static HTML theme and turn it into a Drupal theme. The cost for the workshop is $350 and you can sign up on the official DrupalCon SF site .

While it is still fresh in my mind, I wanted get some words down about Florida DrupalCamp 2010 that took place over the weekend of February 20-21. I'll be writing up a much more detailed case-study in the coming days, but I wanted to get some thoughts down while they were still fresh in my head. First of all - wow, wow, wow. If last year's Florida DrupalCamp showed what was possible, this year's camp shows that the Florida Drupal community has arrived. We sold out at 150 attendees (at $5/each) nearly three weeks prior to the event and eventually had a waiting list of rougly 40 additional people. Rather than completely turning away the wait-listers, we decided to do a two-hour "Intro to Drupal" session (led by DrupalEasy's Ryan Price ) on day 2 of the camp that was open only to people on the wait list. In the end, more than half of them showed up for the free session (and got free lunch and a swag bag as well!)

In an attempt to point to some of the great things that are available using Features , I tried to look for a directory of Feature Servers . Sadly, Google was not very helpful. After some digging, I was able to locate a page on the OpenAtrium Community site called Distributed Feature Servers . This points to many of the other pages I was able to find via search. Utilmately I created a wiki page on the Packaging & Deployment group of groups.drupal.org, which seems to be one of the hottest places to discuss Features. Directory of Public Features Servers wiki page Currently, there is tons of info about how to create your own Features Server, but not much about where all the publicly available features servers are located. If you know of others, please go edit the wiki page on groups.drupal.org or leave them in the comments here.

DrupalEasy is proud to announce that we're a Gold sponsor for Florida DrupalCamp 2010 to be held February 20-21, 2010 at the offices of Mind Comet in

Several months ago Ryan Price interviewed Emma Jane Hogbin , one of the authors of Front End Drupal , for DrupalEasy Podcast 10. At the time I hadn't received a review copy of the book, so I made a mental note to check out the book based on the interview. Six months later, the folks at Prentice Hall were kind enough to send me a copy, and I was not disappointed. Emma Jane Hogbin and Konstantin Kafer have written Front End Drupal in a way that makes it a valuble resource for virtually anyone who uses Drupal in one form or another. The strength of the book lies in the fact that it explains core concepts and best practices of how sites are built in Drupal, with an empahsis on theming. Rather than writing a full-on review for a book that has already been reviewed more than a couple of times elsewhere, I thought that I'd provide a list of 10 things that this book covers really well.

I recently had the opportunity to spend a few minutes on the phone with Timi Ogunjobi of websesame ( @websesame twitter ), author of Drupal 6 Site Blueprints from Packt Publishing. Originally, we planned to share the interview as a DrupalEasy Podcast , but a poor connection scuttled those plans (things like that happen when the interviewee is calling in from Africa . Luckily, I had a backup plan (always have a backup): this article! What follows is some Q&A with Timi compiled from the pre-interview and selected quotes from the actual interview.