Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - 11:57
Here are some of the technologies in use on this site.
Hosting and Infrastructure
- Ubuntu server
- MySQL Database
- Apache HTTP Server
- Caching via Varnish
- DNS and hosting services provided by Heart Internet
- Source code for the site is hosted on bitbucket
Languages, Frameworks and Plugins
- PHP5 with APC
- CMS Driven by Drupal
- Tools and examples pages use separate code that is then wrapped around Drupal theme output
- Source code is controlled via git, hosted on bitbucket
- Phing script is used to deploy tagged versions of the site
- Drush Make used to pull in all non-custom code
Frontend
- Bootstrap used as frontend framework along with the Drupal Bootstrap theme
- Source code highlighting provided by GeSHi (along with the GeSHi Drupal filter module)
- Font Awesome used for icons