Found great article about Drupal 6.x performance

must read & keep
http://www.morningtime.com/Drupal-6x-Performance-Guide/513

 A young drupalist, that has recently learned Drupal, asked me what do I recommend for him as the next course he'll take:

PHP, Databases, or CSS ?

So I went and asked my friends and drupal colegues on LinkedIn, here is a link to the question What is the best next-step course for a beginner-drupalist: PHP, Databases, or CSS ?

here are the answers by the drupal experts:

One of our clients, asked for an "Accessible website", and he wanted to "know how much will it cost"?

So what does Accessibility means?

For example, text provided for Images and meaningfull names for Links, helps blind users using text-to-speech or text-to-Braille.
Big images and underlined links make it is easier for poor-sight and color blind users to notice and understand.
Many people navigate by keyboard only, because they cannot use a mouse, so anything should be navigable without a mouse, and no keyboard traps!
Flashing effects may cause seizures, and more...

Recently i got this error in my log
Cron run exceeded the time limit and was aborted.

so why does cron, shouted this ?

I have found nice snipet to track the source of the error

<?php
// redirect only if this is not cron script  
if ($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] != '/cron.php') {
  drupal_goto('<front>');
}
?>

apparently it was because i have added a redirect page to keep an old path and avoid 404 error
so i have added a page with php code with a simple drupal_goto()

having this problem ?

Having a live drupal website, that needs to be upgraded, or just a simple task such as adding Languages or changing a Themes, we would like to hold all content changes, till the work is done.

We found a nice module to set the site for Read-Only mode

http://drupal.org/project/readonlymode

Using the module is simple, just need to check the box, and the site moves to a Read-Only mode

The only thing missing in that module was that it still allows to add comments.

This article uses the OpenSearch Specification that is
implemented inside Google Chrome

Today I want to show you the use of Google Chrome search engines on drupalsearch.org site.

when you visit drupalsearch.org site in Chrome, Chrome automatically adds this provider to your browser search providers
this magic happens because this site implements OSDD - OpenSearch description document

drupal.org is a great site with a lot of good content that help us to solve problems that already have been solved
but drupal.org search is somehow slow

so we have found this site

http://drupalsearch.org
this is google cse site that index drupal.org

so i order to provide firefox users an easy access we have created a Firefox Addon

Everyone asks us "which of the CMS platforms will be best, for my website?"
and they want to know why we think so,too.

We found a good article that covers that:

Drupal, Joomla!, and WordPress – Which CMS to Choose?

We choose to work with Drupal

read more Why Drupal

One of our clients has a big Power Point presentations he wanted to upload, to his website.

he tried changing the limits to 4M file-size using

/admin/settings/uploads 
 
But he failed, and got a long error message from Drupal, saying:
Your PHP settings limit the maximum file size per upload to 2 MB. 

Depending on your server environment, 

these settings may be changed in the system-wide php.ini file...
 
The solution is to:

Working on Linux, we have to use cron to execute jobs such as backups, drupal's search index build and many others.

But how come nothing happens when you run:

 crontab -e 

Many reasons could cause this, but it is most likely that your session's default editor is not installed or somehow ... vanished

Assuming you have vim working on your Linux,

here is how you can change your session's default editor to vim:

 export EDITOR="vim"

 Now, if you type again