I think we have all felt the pain at least sometimes when doing admin tasks on the Drupal backend. Trying to find your way to the right admin page without knowing the correct path, trying to find some module in the modules page and activate it etc. With the built-in basic tools it can be pretty frustrating. But worry no more because here I present you some cool modules to aid your admin pain! Say hi to Administration menu, Aloha, Coffee and Module filter!

Debugging and testing sites in Internet Explorer (or Exploder as some might say) is certainly the moment of joy in every web developers life. You know the saying test early, test often so you can identify issues and bugs early. How many of us actually do testing with Internet Explorer in the early stages?

Gmap module is a very nice tool for drawing markers and objects to an online map. You can for example list your company's stores in a view and then pipe that view straight as a map with markers on correct places. How cool is that? But what if you have many overlapping markers for different stores and you want to decide what store you want to display on top. The Gmap module doesn't offer anything for this, so we had to implement this one by ourself for a client.

If you are running a big site with loads of visitors or just running a normal site with very minimal resources your basic Drupal search functionality might slow down your site significantly. And it's not even very efficient solution to search all the contents of your site. Don't worry, the help is here. Apache Solr helps you with your site's search functionality and makes it blazingly fast! In this first part of Apache Solr walk through we are going to install and configure Apache Solr + Jetty with Drupal.