GFF Behind The Scenes

A little about developing and maintaining the Global FlyFisher

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What happened to GFF? Sep 8. 2023 For a painfully long time in August 2023 the Global FlyFisher was dead and gone. Our DNS-provider stumbled and took all their clients with them in the fall.	The threat of Drupal 8… eh… 9... eh… 10! Jul 29. 2023 GFF is running on Drupal 7, and Drupal 7 is terminal. It’s destined to die. And upgrading is not an easy task, not least because version 10 is already there.
The up-to-date game Sep 29. 2021 Maintaining a site with close to 18,000 pictures, 11,000+ video links and close to 3,000 articles means having a lot of stuff to keep up-to-date	Counting newsletter openings and clicks Dec 5. 2020 I have build a small Drupal-module, which enables me to see how many recipients open my newsletters and click on links in it

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Nerd alert Blog entry What happened to GFF? Sep 8. 2023 For a painfully long time in August 2023 the Global FlyFisher was dead and gone. Our DNS-provider stumbled and took all their clients with them in the fall.	Nerd alert Blog entry The threat of Drupal 8… eh… 9... eh… 10! Jul 29. 2023 GFF is running on Drupal 7, and Drupal 7 is terminal. It’s destined to die. And upgrading is not an easy task, not least because version 10 is already there.	Nerd alert Blog entry The up-to-date game Sep 29. 2021 Maintaining a site with close to 18,000 pictures, 11,000+ video links and close to 3,000 articles means having a lot of stuff to keep up-to-date
Nerd alert Blog entry Counting newsletter openings and clicks Dec 5. 2020 I have build a small Drupal-module, which enables me to see how many recipients open my newsletters and click on links in it	Nerd alert Blog entry Merging Wordpress content into Drupal Dec 2. 2020 There’s a bunch of modules to help importing content into Drupal. My experience is that they are inadequate, and don’t do what I need. I prefer DIY.	Nerd alert Blog entry The magazine image system Sep 10. 2019 The blocks of nicely laid out images on GFF has required quite a bit of work to refine.
Nerd alert Blog entry Lazy loading Nov 24. 2018 Lazy loading is a performance improvement where images (and other assets) are loaded when needed, not when the page is loaded	Nerd alert Blog entry Why I hate complexity Jun 10. 2018 It seems to me that a lot of software problems are solved by adding complexity. It's a bad solution. I hate it.	Nerd alert Blog entry Drupal, YouTube and Vimeo integration Feb 21. 2018 The GFF video section uses a few neat cowboy tricks to smoothly integrate videos from YouTube and Vimeo into the site
Nerd alert Blog entry Preserving old URLs Jun 25. 2017 I'm surprised how little web publishers cherish their old URLs. When I browse old links to the outside from our articles, I constantly meet 404-pages. I value GFF’s old web-addresses, and here's how I maintain them.	Nerd alert Blog entry Getting review ratings shown on Google Apr 30. 2017 Google can pick up quite a lot of structured information from your site, and you can help by presenting it correctly	Nerd alert Blog entry Node number 50,000 Apr 4. 2017 Just the other day the Global FlyFisher crossed the 50,000 node nid mark in the database. GFF is a large site, but still far from any boundaries set by Drupal.
Nerd alert Blog entry A little about caching Nov 15. 2016 A site as GFF needs some level of caching in order to be able to deliver pages fast without bogging down the server or database	Nerd alert Blog entry Fighting spam on GFF Sep 2. 2016 Here's a rundown of the different things I do to keep spammers from posting on the Global FlyFisher	Nerd alert Blog entry The fixed top menu Jul 29. 2016 A lot of sites feature a part of the page – typically a top menu – that is fixed to the top of the screen when you scroll down. Here are some thoughts about such a feature and how to do it.

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