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Very clean tutorial of how tospeed up drupal site

Excellent resource for PHP op-code cache information

"Drush make" in the spirit of *nix 'make' command, allows developers to create make files that will automatically download project files (Drupal.org and external).

One of several helpers included in the ctools module, ctools dependency is described on the module page itself as "a simple form widget to make form items appear and disappear based upon the selections in another item". It's designed to make it easy and quick to hide/show form elements based on the value of other form elements in the browser using javascript.

"So remember: don't rely on regions and template files to hide blocks; they do so visually only. Using block visibility settings will ensure that extra processing is not performed on blocks that aren't being printed out in the first place, and keep your server nice and speedy!" See also the comment regarding the Context module and even Panels. Personally, I rarely use the traditional block page these days and rely more and more on the Context module as well as the Panels module in some cases.

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