Semantic web development and publishing

Author Archives: Murray Woodman

Drupal Hosting Environment (part 4)

Sometimes the server environment must be taken as a given and we must work within the bounds of what has been provided. Moving servers can be a time consuming process and not something you wish to do if it can be avoided. It’s best to make the right decisions up front ensuring you have room [...]

Drupal and Server Profile (part 3)

Drupal is a very flexible content management system and can solve a wide range of publishing problems. It is capable of handling everything from highly trafficked, often updated, large sites on multiple servers such as drupal.org down to a humble blog. The type of performance issues a site can have will therefore vary depending on [...]

Server Tools (part 2)

Before we get into the fun stuff it is important to become familiar with a few basic tools which can help you (i) measure performance and (ii) monitor the system over time.

Squeezing the last drop from Drupal: Performance and Scalability (part 1)

Drupal is a very flexible content management system capable of providing a very wide range of functionality. It’s modular design, whilst flexible, does have the downside of being on the slow side in the performance stakes in certain cases. This guide shows you how to squeeze the last drop of performance out of Drupal by [...]

Uriverse publishes DBpedia in Drupal

Uriverse, a site which aims to provide an interesting and compelling interface to linked data sources, has just had its initial alpha release.

topicmap.com redesign

Cruncht maintains the topicmap.com website which is a portal and blog for all things concerned with topic maps. It has been running for 10 years now and has traced the development of the topic maps community.

WordPress Wordle plugin released

Cruncht is proud to announce the release of the WordPress Wordle plugin, a plugin which allows you to output tag cloud text suitable for import into Wordle. If you ever wanted to make a Wordle from your tags but weren’t sure how to do it then this is the plugin for you. All you need [...]