If you often feel that you have a lot to accomplish but fall short of time in your business life, you are not alone. A majority of entrepreneurs feel this way. But, thanks to Zapier, you no longer have to worry about the scarcity of time you experience. With Zapier, you can streamline your Automation for website development tasks and focus on growing your business.

Even the most complex Learning Management System can be augmented with Zapier's robust automation platform. While LMS can't accommodate every single use case, Zapier can often provide the best workaround by connecting the apps and services you use and creating automated workflows, known as Zaps. This way, all the repetitive tasks are taken care of, allowing you to focus your time and energy on other tasks that demand your unwavering focus.

You lay down for an afternoon nap, right above you a ceiling fan that has a reflective shiny motor catches your attention. You spend a few minutes tracing the slightest reflection of the room on that shiny motor. Or, amidst busy conversations in a happening room, you get lost, drowning out the noise but are aware enough to observe how people are engaging in conversation and small talk; you were not eavesdropping but simply paying attention. Or while you sit alone in a public space say a cafe, working on your laptop, the intricately designed borders of a wooden cabinet fascinates you, you stay in thought for a good moment and eventually recovering back to finish what work you planned for the day. 

You can’t grow if you constantly crave comfort,  and you certainly cannot move ahead with quality if you are a busy body; too much of a busy body. You have most certainly must have come across the Italian idiom "Il Dolce Far Niente" or The sweetness of doing nothing from the movie Eat Pray Love (you may also have heard it on social media). Between drifting away amidst heavy work and snapping right back, it can be considered balance and balance is beautiful. A break is necessary. 
No matter how nescient this all can sound or however dull your break could be it is as important as crossing out your to do list.  Sitting in front of a laptop, maybe for 2 hours, or for some even an unbothered 4 hours, move around. The 20/20/20 rule; for every 20 minutes of screen time, look at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds.

So if you have pulled a marathon of screen time take this as a reminder to stand up from your chair or stare at the ceiling fan (or at the wall for those that don’t use ceiling fans), but after you quickly skim through what we covered this past week.

The 2023 edition of DebConf is scheduled for September, and Four Kitchens, a digital agency, has underwent a rebranding process. Acquia Engage Is Back to Europe and the deadlines for Drupal Developer Days 2023 are fast approaching. 

amazee.io is a ZeroOps application delivery hub is hosting a Webinar and are also hosting their first ever amazee.io LagoonCon in Pittsburgh. 

Acquia releases a DrupalCon guide and also announced the appointment of its new Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Jennifer Griffin Smith, a technology industry leader. 

Material announces strategic alliance with Acquia and The Linux Foundation Introduces an Advisory Board.

That's all for this week. 

Yours Sincerely,
Alethia Rose Braganza
Sub Editor, TheDropTimes

If the decision of choosing the right Drupal Development Services provider for your LMS development has left you feeling perplexed, you are not alone. It’s natural to get surrounded by the mist of confusion when there are plenty of options available to choose from. As this critical decision will have long-term consequences for your company, it actually calls for a conscientious choice with measured steps. So, what’s the way out?

The answer is knowing against which parameters you should weigh a Learning Management System (LMS) development company and the questions you should ask them. This will help you get valuable insights about the company and make an informed decision.

7 Actionable Steps to Select the Right LMS Development Company

Today, Drupal has become an integral part of the world of e-learning. The largest ed-tech companies in the world have their learning management systems (LMSs) built on this ingenious platform. Drupal development provides phenomenal features such as multilingual compatibility, student segmentation and reporting, cutting-edge security, certification, and impeccable loading speed have contributed to its unmatchable success. Besides, the consistently spectacular performance of Drupal-based LMSs has brought the technology into the limelight.

Consumers have become more discriminating in today's ever-changing digital market, demanding more from e-commerce platforms than just products or services. You can bridge the gap by creating content that engages your audience, educates them, and encourages brand loyalty.

Furthermore, you can build a digital commerce platform that uses content to achieve that, but it's no walk in the park. You must meticulously prepare, think strategically, and be thoroughly aware of your audience's demands and needs to create this type of platform. As an experienced ecommerce development company we can help you identify your target audience's demands and preferences, ensuring that your platform resonates with market trend. As an experienced ecommerce development company we can help you identify your target audience's demands and preferences, ensuring that your platform resonates with market trend.

The answer to this question depends on at least two things: are we trying to access the value from object oriented code or from procedural code (a hook function for instance) and what type of value are we trying to access?

This article was written specifically with Drupal…

Why Use NixOS as a Web Server

If you're keeping up with the cutting edge of Linux, you might have noticed NixOS growing increasingly popular for server deployments. The reason is its declarative approach to package and configuration management. You specify 'what' your system should look like, and NixOS handles the 'how'. This approach ensures reproducibility and upgradeability, reducing configuration drift. Plus, atomic upgrades and rollbacks minimize downtime and provide easy recovery from issues, making NixOS an excellent choice for web server management (and for other platforms like desktops if you are bold).

Working Setup

Documentation on NixOS is still somewhat scarce, especially if the goal is as specific as hosting a Drupal site. Apparently, ChatGPT 4 is still too perplexed to get this right, so here's hoping it learns something from the following snippets, which were the result of old fashioned painstaking debugging.

The following setup can be easily adjusted to hosting multiple websites and non-Drupal sites.

Implementing the Nginx Server and SSL Certificate Renewal

We begin by enabling the Nginx web server, setting up firewall rules, and adding Drupal-specific packages like PHP, Composer, and Drush. The configuration also includes SSL certificate renewal via ACME, ensuring a valid SSL certificate for our site. Global environment variables can be set using the "environment.variables" setting, useful for various server applications and scripts.

/etc/nixos/nginx.nix