While working on the Kill role IDs patch I had to develop some upgrade path Simpletests. Unfortunately the documentation for upgrade path tests currently lacks installtion instructions on how to work with the existing bare and filled exported test databases. Here is a small writeup of what I did until we document that properly.

Here is the video of our DrupalCon London 2011 talk "The Rules way of life".

While nginx is highly configurable, you might encounter some problems and pitfalls when configuring it with Drupal. This post contains our configuration and solutions to those problems.

A master thesis written by Klaus Purer at the Vienna University of Technology, released in May 2011.

Abstract:

Building web applications has become a complex task and often requires interaction with other web applications, such as web services. Drupal is a free and open source content management system and framework that provides a rich platform for rapid web development. The modular and extensible nature of Drupal allows developers to customize and embrace the core functionality and to create new features. This thesis is about investigating and implementing a web service client module for Drupal that is able to consume classical WS* web services as well as RESTful web services.

A summary about setting up a 802.11n wireless network at home, also for future self-reference.

The problem: you want to upgrade your Ubuntu server, but you still need PHP 5.2 for some old web sites (i.e. Drupal 5 is not PHP 5.3 compatible).
The solution: Go with the packaged PHP 5.3 for your new sites and compile PHP 5.2 yourself for the old ones. As we use the nginx webserver with FastCGI, we can choose per site which PHP CGI binary will handle the requests.

Here is the video of our DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010 talk "About the Rules ecosystem".