Drucumber is a new module that converts native-language like text into a Drupal Simpletests. The goal of this module is to allow end-users and project teams to implement behavior driven development: specify behaviors or features of a Drupal site in a test and never again worry about checking it.

n the two years since I’ve used Mollom, the service probably has blocked more than 100,000 pieces of spam from being posted at my site.

Basically it adds a hidden form element which your users won’t see, but automated spambots will. If anything is placed in the textfield, validation fails. So instead of making the user prove that they are human, we allow the spambot to betray itself as a bot.

Taking advantage of Nginx’s direct Memcache integration by delivering Drupal pages from cache - even for authenticated users.

There are many ways to improve the performance & scalability of Drupal. Comparison of a selection of performance and scalability modules.

Lifetime Digital case study highlights the proven scalability and performance of Drupal websites in a high traffic environment. By utilizing Akamai technology for caching of rich media and for anonymous users, Lifetime Digital’s 6 Drupal sites have proven successful in supporting 50 million page views per month.

As anyone who has developed a Drupal site with devel module’s query logging on can tell you, a Drupal implementation can quickly get out of control when it comes to hammering the database.