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Drupal is one of the most famous Open Source CMS (Content management system) in the market. Powerful, easy to deploy and with lots of great modules to help you deploy any type of web platform.

So, where does Drush come in?

drush is a command line shell and scripting interface for Drupal, a veritable Swiss Army knife designed to make life easier for those of us who spend some of our working hours hacking away at the command prompt.

To put it simple, its a tool to help you maintain your Drupal installation, allowing you to easily update the core and manager your Modules.

The following info will show how you can install the latest Drush on a Ubuntu/Debian system.

Requisites:

To use Drush you need to install php5 command-line interpreter.

sudo apt-get install php5-cli

After that, Drush is ready to be installed.

Installing:

sudo wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drush-7.x-4.4.tar.gz
sudo tar xvfz drush-7.x-4.4.tar.gz -C /opt
sudo ln -s /opt/drush/drush /usr/local/bin/

Running:

Just type drush in the Terminal and you can see all available options

sudo drush

Example : Installing Drupal Commerce

So, you have Drupal running, how does one install Drupal Commerce and dependencies?
On the Drupal installation folder (e.g. /var/www/drupal/) run the following commands:

sudo drush dl commerce
sudo drush dl addressfield ctools entity rules views

This will download and install the modules on your drupal installation. Now, to enable the modules:

sudo drush ennable addressfield ctools entity rules views

Next, you would only need to follow the Drupal Commerce instructions : http://drupal.org/node/1007434.

Basically, a time-saver!

One of the best descriptions about the “time of arrival”.

The second non-absolute number is the given time of arrival, which is now known to be one of those most bizarre of mathematical concepts, a recipriversexcuson, a number whose existence can only be defined as being anything other that itself. In other words, the given time of arrival is the one moment of time at which it is impossible that any member of the party will arrive.

From : Life, the Universe and Everything

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Já todos ouvimos dizer que para criar uma nova empresa é essencial um plano de negócios. Fazer projecções de vendas, perdas, publico alvo, número de clientes etc.

Mas uma questão que sempre tive é como é que fazemos essa estimativa? Uma resposta que me vem a cabeça muitas vezes é… adivinhar, inventar, suposições basicamente. Vamos ser sinceros, fazer projecções correctas para 3 anos é muito complicado, o mercado hoje em dia é muito dinâmico.

E onde quero chegar com isto? Recentemente descobri o Blog A Smart Bear, que o autor descreve como um blog sobre “Startups + Marketing + Geekery” e conta a sua experiência. É um blog que aconselho a todos os interessados sobre startups.

O mês passado, ele fez 2 posts interessantes “Don’t write a business plan” e “Startup Therapy: Ten questions to ask yourself every month“.

No 1º ele explica porque acha que é uma perda de tempo de tempo escrever um plano de negócio com algumas boas notas. No 2º ele dá 10 perguntas para se fazer uma introspecção sobre a vossa startup. Estão prontos para tentar responder?

1. In one sentence, what does your product do and who buys it?
2. In one sentence, why does someone buy your product?
3. What one thing is most responsible for preventing sales?
4. What’s one thing you could do to get more feedback from customers, potential customers, or sales you’ve lost?
5. If you had zero revenue from now on, on what date would you run out of money?
6. If someone handed you $100,000 today, how would you spend it to maximize future profits?
7. If you were forced to hire someone today, how would you define her job such that she would contribute enough revenue to cover her expense?
8. Which of your business operations do you hate?
9. What initiatives could be done half-assed without significant impact?
10. If you could get one solid hour of advice from a guru you respect, what would you discuss and what would be the goal of the meeting?

Têm a explicação no site de cada uma das perguntas. Conseguem responder a todas?