December 2008
The Drush Module
The Drush module has recently become one of my favorite new Drupal "toys." Drush, or the Drupal Shell, allows the site admin to do a number of useful things from the command line. Among the most useful is the ability to download and install Drupal modules without ever opening a browser. Just type drush pm install views for instance to install the views module. Even better, type drush pm update and you will be prompted to update any modules that are out of date. (Note: this doesn't yet work for core updates, but it will).
Does Drupal scale (and what does that mean, anyway)?
As a consultant specializing in enterprise Drupal, I often find myself answering a relatively small (and consistent) set of questions about the Drupal platform early on in any engagement. Many of the larger Drupal sites are media and publishing oriented, which makes these questions even more common across projects. As a result, I've started to compile a list of most common Drupal questions and the answers I've been able to provide. First up is the most common concern enterprises have about Drupal - scalability.
