Drush
Playing Chess with the Lights Off
Yesterday was Day 2 of the Lullabot Rock Solid Drupal training -- and day 3 is about to start. It's been a heady collection of serious tools that a dabbler like me hasn't really had a reason to work with before, but it's very impressive to see.
One of the things that sets folks running high-powered sites apart is that they avoid using any sort of GUI (graphic user interface) on their production servers -- all of the memory and processor power used to make pretty windows and check boxes can be better used to deliver web pages to users, after all.
