Join Us at DrupalCamp Colorado in August
DrupalCamp Colorado is taking place during the first weekend of August. This is going to be a really interesting event. DrupalCamp Colorado is being held at…
Author: Steve Burge
Steve is the founder of OSTraining. Originally from the UK, he now lives in Sarasota in the USA. Steve's work straddles the line between teaching and web development.
Building PHP Applications with Composer and Pimple
Moses Ngone is an Atlanta-based developer who is heavily involved in the local communities around webdesign, PHP, app development and more. So, it’s appropriate that…
Cropping Images in WordPress
WordPress is famous for being easy to use, but some features can still be confusing. We find that cropping images is one thing that frequently…
Joomla Day Minnesota: Free Student Tickets
We’re always particularly happy to sponsor new open source events. This July we’re helping with the first ever Joomla Day Minnesota. Rod Martin from the…
Control Multiple WordPress Sites with ManageWP
Managing multiple WordPress sites can be a challenge. There are always plugin updates, theme updates, backups, comments and more to deal with. ManageWP is a…
Building a Business Directory With Drupal
Over the last couple of weeks, several different OSTraining members have asked me about creating a directory in Drupal. I’m going to recommend a 4-step…
Clean Up the Drupal Content Form
Drupal comes with a lot of options. For some users, all those options can be overwhelming. One of our members asked for our advice on…
Building a Really Fast Server Stack
Nic Rosental is a developer based in Atlanta and he recently gave a great presentation on how to build a really fast server stack. Nic…
Drupal Book of the Year: Drupal 7 Explained
Writing a book is a long and painful process involving many hours crouched over a desk. So when a writer finially emerges with a finished…
Why You Should Use Firefox OS
Like many people I have a love-hate relationship with Mozilla. They get a lot wrong. Firefox has been struggling as a browser. Their Persona identity…
10 Minutes with WP Super Cache
Every time you load the frontend of your WordPress site makes many, many database calls. WordPress pulls together many different assets and compiles them into…
Using the Drupal FullCalendar Module
If you want a calendar on your Drupal site, the FullCalendar module is one of your very best options. Some of the advantages of the…
Absolute Beginners Guide to AngularJS
One of our predictions for 2014 was that traditional CMS’s will become much more reliant on Javascript. That prediction is coming true, and AngularJS is…
Learn Development Workflows with Pantheon
Many of the people who watch our video classes are new to web development and looking for guidance as to the best tools and processses.…
How to Survive an eCommerce Project
This is a really fun presentation from Joomla Day Atlanta. E-commerce projects are really difficult. In fact, they can be so difficult that website developers…
Contextual Filters and Arguments in Drupal
Sometimes the name you give something is really important. In Drupal 6, a key feature in Views was called “arguments”. This term made perfect sense…
A Beginners Guide to Browser Caching
Is your website running slowly? Does your site have a lot of repeat visitors? Browser caching is one tool to help your site load much…
Add CSS Style to Drupal Views
This week one of our OSTraining members was working with the Views module. They were able to create views, but weren’t sure how to improve…
Publish and Unpublish Dates for Drupal Content
One feature that is common with other software but missing with Drupal is the ability to schedule content. The Scheduler module fills in this gap…
How Do We Stop the Next OpenSSL Disaster?
Open Source hasn’t had good press in recent weeks. The OpenSSL Heartbleed bug led to many articles revealing how badly run OpenSSL was. One typical…