Case study on FishHub.org

Using Drupal to create large scale websites with multiple instances.

CASE STUDY: FISHHUB

Florin Tarnovanu – epoint

Todd Thille – Amplifier Strategies

Some funny facts

21516 lines of code

1024 1033 tables in database for a community

over 120 liters of coffee

over 60 AA batteries for mice

Thursday became our “Friday 13th”

Fun facts

Overview

About Fish Hub

Fish Hub is a Drupal application built to help communities of fishermen across the USA to manage resources, plan boat and harvest catches, promote and manage their business, interact and exchange useful information.

Overview

Fishermen communities across USA

Community Partners

HomepageOverview

CommunitiesOverview

Workflow

1 Week Sprints

Weekly releases

Client feedback each week

JIRABitbucketAtlassian (Crucible, FishEye)Google Drive

Skype

Overview

Agile process

tools

Environment

Cloud hosting

Server

4 GB RAM

2 Core processor

Apache, php5, mysql, xcache, memcache

Fishermen Community = Drupal Instance

ÆGIR

Overview

Environment

Overview

ApplicationsMain functionalities

Platform (Wheelhouse)Applications

Dashboard for each main tool


PROfile information


Messaging system


Marketing page


feeds


News & events


Business information

Boat PlanApplications

Planning a business

Boat Plan

Yearly Plan

Income / expenses

Real-time generated charts

Automatic calculations

Share plan as pdf or by mail

Instant / actual income & expenses

Applications

Planning a business

Boat PlanApplications

Settlement sheets

QuotaXApplications

The marketplace of the community

QuotaXApplications

TRANSACTIONS / PORTfolios

QuotaXApplications

Programs

NOAA Connector

A government agency managing fisheries in the USA

Data entered from hand written-forms with lots of errors. Fishermen need a tool for monitoring the data.

Tools to connect to NOAA websites

cURL

scriptable GUI

Rules to generate Alerts

Todd

WHAT is NOAA?

Main issue

Our solution

NOAA Connector

Todd

Challenges in Drupal

Features synchronization

Challenges

Keeping everything the same

Local 1 Local 2Local 3

Dev

Stage

Community A

Community B

Community C

Community D

Node synchronization

Central species list

(updates made)

db_set_active()

Push updates to all communities

Challenges

Master communityChallenges

Master species listChallenges

Performance

CachingMemcached, xcache

Entity cache

Aggregation of css, jsmod_expireinno_db parameters

Challenges

Complex application requires performance improvements

Top contrib modules used

Views (/views)Modules

The swiss army knife of Drupal

Field collection (/field_collection)

Modules

Field in field in field in field in field in field ...

Homebox (/homebox)Modules

Custom blocks resizable and reorderable everywhere

Profile2 (/profile2)Modules

One user, multiple profiles

Webform (/webform)Overview

Bringing forms to the next level

Modules

AJAX Forms at your fingertips

Brings the menu back on the right path

Modules

Chaos tools suite (/ctools)

MENU trail by path (/menu_trail_by_path)

Modules

SCSS – Faster to write, easier to maintain. Extends CSS with variables and selector inheritance. Compiles with Compass tool.

( sass-lang.com, compass-style.org )

Super user-friendly super menus

Sassy (/sassy)

Modules

superfish (/superfish)

Theming

Omega theme

HTML 5 compliant base theme.

Stylesheets were broken out into major sections of the site

We believe that people make the difference in any successful project

Adelina MaximFront-end Developer

Drupal user: adelina.maximEmail: [email protected]

Marius DiacuWeb Developer

Drupal user: maryus88Email: [email protected]

Todd Thille Lead Developer

Florin Tarnovanu Web Developer

Drupal user: synesthete Email: [email protected]

Drupal user: neddstark Email: [email protected]

We believe that people make the difference in any successful project

The Fish Hub partners in Cape Cod, MA, Morro Bay and Fort Bragg, CA and Amplifier Strategies Design team.

Thank you for your attention.

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Amplifier Strategies2800 Third Street, San Francisco, California, 94107, USA

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