On March 5th, 2016, SpinSpire team presented "Drupal 8 development for Drupal 7 developers" at Florida DrupalCamp.

Drupal is a such a powerful and mature platform that you can build a full featured location finder (e.g. Store Locator) with zero coding, with judicious configuration and some fantastic contrib modules.

Here's a rundown of the features:

This video shows how to build LEMP (Linux+Nginx+MySQL+PHP) server VM in the cloud and run a Drupal site on it. The notes for the video are below. Use them along with watching the video.

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On April 11, 2015, I gave a presentation at Florida Drupal Camp about writing applications that leverage the power of both Drupal and AngularJS. The slides for this presentation are attached.

Migrating content and its linkages between sites has always been one the more difficult tasks to master in the world of Drupal. In the past, site builders and developers would have to write lots of code to set up the migrations and field mappings. Migrating between Drupal sites is not quite as daunting of a task as migrating a site from another CMS, since many of the entities will be similar across sites, but is challenging none the less.

MySQL, as it comes out of the box on most Linux distributions, is reasonably optimized. But there are a few things you might have to tweak to get the most out of it. Here are my tweaks for Drupal, and most other applications that use MySQL.

As you can guess from the name Jython is an amalgamation of the Python and Java programming languages. It is one of three implementations of the Python language, the other two being CPython and IronPython (.Net). Jython is one of the most mature JVM languages that is available on the Java platform. The language was created in 1997 to replace the C language with Java for performance-intensive code accessed by python programs.

Why Java? Hundreds of reasons can be found with a single google search, but we all know Java language is not perfect, and so for every reason for Java, we can find an opposite. But the following two reasons are enough to convince anyone: leading development platform (brings business) and JVM. The Java platform will not go anywhere in the near future, and languages like Groovy will make certain of that. "Groovy is like a super version of Java. It can leverage Java's enterprise capabilities but also has cool productivity features like closures, builders and dynamic typing.

The way we (should) architect web applications today (circa 2014) is very different from how we architected them only a couple of years back. Different people give it different names, but they mean the same thing (I think):

• SPA (Single Page App) - I don't like this name because it overemphasizes a trivial detail (a single index.html) that may not even be true in many cases.

• Rich Web App

• Modern Web App