Recently I posted an Apache configuration file that allows you to detect mobile devices and pass a query parameter to the back-end that informs your web application what type of device is accessing your website. This without the need for device detection in your back-end (e.g. Drupal).
The main goals for that script where:
From time to time I get questions about caching strategies and mobile devices. Definitely when you want to create different responses in the back end based on the device AND you have strong caching strategies, things get very tricky.
An example scenario in Drupal (but can relate to any CMS) is where you boost performance by storing the generated pages as static files (see Boost).
These solutions rely heavily on Apache in a way that Apache delivers the static files in case these files exist. Otherwise it passes the request to the CMS.
Submitted by Tom on Sat, 09/10/2011 - 22:42
In a couple of months the Drupal community, and businesses will attend Drupalcon London 2011. An opportunity for us developers to learn about new trends, decision makers to evaluate Drupal and for a lot of Drupal pro's the opportunity to share knowledge with a wider community.
On thursday Northpoint, who recently became an Acquia partner gave a presentation on "Mobilizing Your Organization With Drupal". The webinar was presented by myself and Matt Dorman.
For who want to review the slides, or missed the webinar, here is the presentation.
Thanks to my colleague Ian at Northpoint, who created some nice logo's, Mobile Tools finally has it's own logo! I got 4 different designs and I wanted to hear what you think.
Modules that have their own logo, just give them that extra piece of credibility, ... What does not mean they are actually better:)
So here they are:
For who is following this blog and the Mobile Tools module, has noticed some spike in my contributions the last days ...
I would like to have a more even distribution of my contributions, but day to day work brings my focus often for longer periodes to different domains (like the Marthastewart new solr integration).
However, for the upcoming Acquia Webinar that I will co-presenting this coming thursday, I did an extra effort to work on the module and write some documentation. With thanks of course to Northpoint to give me the time to work on these projects!
So, if you want to learn more about Drupal and mobile and hear me talking about Mobile Tools, tune in tomorrow to the Acquia webinar:
If you already have questions up front, you can post them as comments!
Submitted by Tom on Tue, 03/22/2011 - 15:33Yesterday I blogged shortly about the new Mobile Tools integration with Context.
I currently updated the support for Build modes, and would like to illustrate this with an example using ImageCache.
First of all if you want to use build modes, you have enable the Mobile Tools module to provide build modes:
Submitted by Tom on Mon, 03/21/2011 - 19:56Since we all love the Context module so much, I figured it was time to integrate Context with Mobile Tools and create a special Mobile Tools plugin.
The new dev version of Mobile Tools currently allows you to create a context based on device type (mobile or desktop) or device groups.
In order to use this functionality, just create a new context and search the context for mobile devices context
Submitted by Tom on Mon, 03/21/2011 - 01:10
With an ever increasing number of users for the Mobile Tools module ( > 4000), I am looking to assemble a list of mobile drupal sites (that use or not use the mobile tools module). I get more and more requests from people asking for examples of mobile Drupal sites.
If I get a good amount of responses, I will feature these sites on this blog in order to demonstrate the mobile capabilities of Drupal and give readers some inspiration when thinking about their mobile site, functionality and design.
If you are interested in getting your site listed, please leave the url as a comment!
To name already a few:
In cooperation with
see Nokia for a list of mobile-code readers.