Drupal tutorials database on dtutorials.com is getting bigger and here are current top 10 tutorials:Read on →

Many developers are getting lost when they are setting their hourly development rates. What is a reasonable rate for my work? How much should I get paid to feel myself comfortable?

Well, of course there are average market prices and other things to consider, but here is a basic calculation made from a "how much do I want to get paid" view:Read on →

I'm promoting a facebook fan page of my download games website, which gets 7000 uniques per day. Today, the fan page has 205 fans, there were no any promotion of the page on the website.

So, I decided to make an experiment: to put a facebook widget on every game page. In a week or so, I will post an update on how many fans such promotion can bring.

I found a pretty cool addition to Chrome browser. This extension allows users to search drupal.org and the drupal API quickly. You can use "6:keyword" or "7:keyword" to search the drupal API. You can grab it from here: http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1295403

A bit of relaxing info. A very nice compilation of funny fails:

My favorite moment is when a guy back kicks a robber in a mall. Which moment in this video did you like?

Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories - and maybe, a way forward.Read on →

I updated dtutorials.com - Drupal tutorials aggregator and added Drupal books section there. All books are tagged with compatible Drupal version. Overall, we have 18 drupal books right now.Read on →

Christmas is just around the corner. I'm sure, you've already decorated your house, time to decorate your virtual properties too. I've found a nice Xmas Icon Set (and cool thing, it's absolutelly free for any use!):

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Speed really matters, especially on the Web. Is your page loading fast? Woot, you added some cool fancy widgets? Do you know how slower your page is loading now? Can you imagine how much users you've lost because of that? Amazon lost 1% in sales because of loading page time increased just on 100ms, Yahoo experienced 5 - 9 % drop in full page traffic because of +400ms in page loading times, people googled 20% fewer because of Goog's 500ms page loading time increase. Speed matters! Be sure and watch this presentation for more info:Read on →

A month ago, I've asked about which PHP framework to choose. Thank you very much for your suggestions, guys. After surfing and reading and testing and thinking and bla bla bla... I decided to stop with Symfony Framework (http://www.symfony-project.org). Curious why?Read on →