Excellent article on the history of Drupal focusing in particular on how it has served political advocacy campaigns.

In the .htaccess file, change the following code by adding additional handlers.

# Set the default handler.
DirectoryIndex index.php

Here's an example that works for most situations:

# Set the default handler.
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
 

Using WinMerge

Winmerge is a free, open source, and easy to use program for MS Windows systems.

Handy Drush commands

• Backup DB:
drush sql dump > /BACKUPS/SITENAME-$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S).sql
• Update filies:
  drush update
• Update DB:
drush updatedb

Drush and cron

• Add the following to cron:
  ~/PATH/drush sql dump > ~/BACKUPS/SITENAME-$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S).sql

We provide website and document development services for small to medium sized organizations. We specialize in strategic use of industry-leading GNU and open-source technologies, such as Drupal, MySQL, PHP, Apache, and LaTex.

Good tips for optimizing and maintaining Drupal Views code.

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The invaluable news service, TruthOut recently switched to Drupal. They made elegant use of Drupal flexible theming, taxonomy, and content type systems to present a massive collection of new reports in an easy to navigate and attractive format.

One of the best case studies I've seen on how to setup a complex drupal-based site.

Recognizing the power, flexibility, and security of GNU software, the US Whitehouse site has been converted to Drupal. They are quoted as saying, "Security is fundamentally built into the development process because the community is made up of people from all across the world."