Upcoming.org: Seattle Drupal March Meeting
Palantir: Drupal for Museums in Denver
Museums and cultural institutions make up a large part of Palantir's business. We like working with them because we support their mission and they tend to have fun, twisted problems to solve. They like working with us because we tend to have fun solving twisted problems.
And we both like it because Palantir uses the industry-leading Drupal Web content management platform, and Drupal rocks for museums. In fact, it rocks so much that we'll be giving a workshop on Drupal at the Museums and the Web conference in Denver April 13-17th.
Drupal Blogs, Pictures, and more on WordPress: Acquia Drupal Linux Installation is Simple!
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In this post, I am going to guide you through the process of installing Drupal on a Linux box. I believe the best distribution for Drupal to be Ubuntu Server, the main reason for this is because we are going to use the Drupal Acquia Stack Installer, and its for Ubuntu, they recommend it. The Acquia Stack Installer is a package that includes Apache, MySQL and PHP all optimized for Drupal.
We are going to do everything from scratch so you need to have two things to start:
Drupal Blogs, Pictures, and more on WordPress: Is Your CMS Working For You?
Selecting a content management system that meets your organization’s website needs is crucial. Moreover, identifying key functionalities and features that will support your web services needs is an important step in the selection process. Deciding factors for choosing one CMS versus another is vastly different from one company to the next. Intrinsically, Web managers should factor in and seriously consider cost, scalability, database management, design flexibility, control and of course, ease of use. CMSes and Web design software like Ektron, Drupal, Dreamweaver, Joomla, or Microsoft SharePoint– all of which have received awards and accolades for their emerging technology and Web 2.0 functionalities. Most Web managers and administrators are probably familiar with the aforementioned platforms, but I have to say not all Web content management systems are created equal and that is where Contensive comes in.
Flickr: SXSW: Selling Your Milk When the Cow is Free
DevelopmentSeed posted a photo:
We only have one way to sell Milk right now, and it ain't scaling, but we have plans :)
Eric is talking on a SXSW panel about Open Atrium and open source business modules. Details at developmentseed.org/blog/2010/mar/12/sxsw-selling-your-mi....
Development Seed: SXSW: Selling Your Milk When the Cow is Free
This afternoon I am speaking on the SXSW panel Selling Your Milk When the Cow is Free about what it has been like to make the transition to selling products with Open Atrium.
We only have one way to sell milk right now, and it ain't scaling, but we have plans :)
On the panel, I'll talk about the bootstrapping process we undertook when Open Atrium first launched last July. I'll share how we communicated about the work we wanted to be doing in a way that let us book a set of clients that had similar needs, which allowed us to pool resources to build a good foundation for Open Atrium.
Dries Buytaert: Druplipet, a Drupal chia pet
And the answer to yesterday's "Eye grow Drupal" question is: Druplipets. Hundreds of cute little Druplipets, your friendly Druplicon chia pet. Druplipet is the newest member of the Acquia and Drupal Gardens family and will be making appearances at industry events this year. It is making its first appearance at SXSW along with a fun contest. Needless to say, Drupal chia pets are fun and powerful stuff!
Flickr: Organizing an event like DrupalJam sure takes some time and mail
bertboerland posted a photo:
I think I have spend about 300 mail right now and more then 100 hours for the Dutch DrupalJam. Love comes back to you...
or so I was told :-(
best thing: Bart Feenstra made at least as many hours as I did
Ventura Cottage: Designing for IE - all of them!
So you create your beautiful Drupal theme, tweak it to perfection using Firefox and Firebug, send the url to the client, confident of praise and adulation.
Then the dreaded response "I'm looking at it in Internet Explorer 6 and...". As you can't run multiple versions of IE on the same machine, previously I have used old machines running different versions of IE, and tools like LogMeIn to check browser compatibility but now there is a simpler way.
Drupal Blogs, Pictures, and more on WordPress: Released! Offline Drupal Handbook and API Documentation
One of the benefits of joining the Drupalse Group is that members get first notice of updates and changes to How to do Everything with Drupal. This is an ebook that contains all the Drupal.org Handbook pages and the API documentation. The book is in CHM format which gives features like search, indexing and bookmarking on windows platforms. This compartmentalized version of the documentation will make learning and using Drupal easier and more convenient. At present the file size is just under 50mb of compressed HTML pages and graphics. Some pages are long but this will be adjusted in later versions.
This is a work that takes a lot of effort to produce. An on going effort to make the ebook a complete self-contained archive with very few link to the web. There are also costs involved in hosting the download. To keep it free and available please think about donating or sponsoring the effort. You can read more about sponsorship and advertising at http://hiveminds.co.uk/2010/03/03/drupal-sweden-mission-statement/
Get download information by joining the linkedin.com Drupalse Group today!
Flickr: 2010_03_11-Drupal-hand-head
Fusion Drupal Themes: Ultimate list of Drupal grid theme resources
Grid-based web development has evolved over the past few years from being the stuff of a few fringe enthusiasts to a fundamental concept for designing and building web sites. While grids aren’t the answer to everything, there are a number of ways they make your life a lot easier.
If you’re interested in building or using a grid Drupal theme, here is a big collection of resources in one place to get you started!
There is a module for that!: Actions REST, a poor man's URI interface to actions
I rely on actions extensively to build functionality in my sites. I find them convenient for business logic because they are packaged chunks of functionality that can be called from many places, including Trigger, Rules, and VBO. Today, I've added a new place where actions can be called: the URL. Actions REST provides this functionality.
Consider a job site where a supplier receives an invitation to participate in a project. The supplier logs on the site and views the invitation, then wants to accept or decline it.
CiviCRM Blog: Support Canvassing and GOTV (Get Out The Vote) functionality in CiviCRM
Political groups and campaigns have been some of the earliest users of CiviCRM. We've had quite a few political parties using CiviCRM: Green Party of New Zealand, Green Party of Canada, Oregon State Democrats, Vermont Progressive Party and even the Pirate Party of Germany! One of the features missing from CiviCRM has been Canvassing, GOTV, PhoneList and WalkList functionality. This has been long requested and there have been various specifications on the wiki for this.
Earlier this year we worked with Progressive Technology Project (PTP) on CiviEngage, a Drupal Module that brings address parsing, walklist and phonelist support into CiviCRM. You can read more about this work here: Canvass and Phonebank.
At the same time Will Brownsberger, a state legislator from Massachusetts, started using CiviCRM to support his office and campaign operations. As part of his campaign he wrote a drupal/civicrm module to do voter canvassing. Will was kind enough to attend and demo his module at the CiviCRM Boston Developer Camp in February.
Pronovix: Real time activity and message stream on Open Atrium
Yesterday I saw this post with a video on the new P2 theme for Wordpress and how Automattic* is using that as a real time microblog like tool for status updates in their company. And it got me thinking...
For some time now we've been using Open Atrium in Pronovix for project management. But until today all of our real time communication takes place through Skype. At some point we tried to replace Skype with XMPP (because Skype didn't properly work on Linux) but once Skype worked again for all the colleagues Jabber got abandoned.
One of the reasons why we were interested in Jabber was to integrate activity updates into our communication tool (e.g. posting comment, case, commit messages). So that we would be able to have a discussion and have a bot post newly created cases into our chat channel.
CommonPlaces e-Solutions: CommonPlaces’ Michelle Lauer to Present at DrupalCon SF
CommonPlaces is thrilled to announce that Michelle Lauer has been selected by the Drupal community to present “Views Examples: Using Arguments and Relationships” at DrupalCon San Francisco, which will be held from April 19-21. You can read our press release here.
In her session, Michelle will share a repeatable strategy for using arguments and relationships with Drupal Views to display specific subsets of content. Here’s the session description, from the DrupalCon SF site:
Views are a powerful way to display specific subsets of your content. From a simple list of all nodes in a single content type to a complex collection of related information, each step will be explained so you can easily repeat the strategy in your own views.
I will demonstrate a systematic approach to building all views and show examples of using arguments and relationships.
Topics
Appnovation Technologies: Theming Views on Drupal 6 (the simple way)
There are several ways you can theme a view on Drupal, and this tutorial will describe a simple and quick way to accomplish just that. I assume that you’re familiar to working with Views and CCK, so I won’t go in much detail on the process of creating the view and content type.
For this example I’m creating a block simple view that will display a teaser for the 3 latest blog posts.
First thing we’ll have to do is create the actual template file on the themes folder (I’d recommend that you create a folder for all the views, but this is optional). We’ll start by going to the views interface to find out how that file should be named.
On the Views interface select “Theme: information” under “Basic Settings”.
You’ll see a list of the possible files you can use listed from the most general(full page)on top to the most specific on the bottom. We’re going to be selecting one option on the “Row Output”. If you don’t need to be too specific about theming that view, you can use the second option. Copy the file name and create that file on your themes folder.
Drupal Blogs, Pictures, and more on WordPress: Mollom, Captcha e Drupal
Leggendo qualcosa sull’ accessibilità dei siti web, mi sono imbattuto in un commento di un utente che, avendo qualche problema con la vista, lamentava la difficoltà di comprendere i captcha dei siti web. I captcha sono quelle scritte deformate utilizzate dai webmaster per la registrazione al sito, nei moduli di contatto, nei commenti ecc… I captcha sono utilizzati per lo più per bloccare i messaggi di spam automatici, cioè messaggi indesiderati o messaggi pubblicitari inviati automaticamente da programmi di terze persone. Questi invii sono bloccati appunto dalle varie modalità di filtro del captcha, che questi programmi non riescono a superare. Il captcha è quindi comunemente definito come un modulo in grado di capire se
Lullabot: Drupal Voices 80: Yves Chedemois on the History and Future of CCK
Yves Chedemois (aka "yched") talks about how he became the co-maintainer of the Content Construction Kit (CCK) along with KarenS. He also talks about the early days of CCK, and the co-evolution along with the Views. Yched also talks a bit about his motivation for continuing to work on a project such as CCK, and the challenges of working on it. He also talks about which parts of CCK are included in Drupal 7 as a part of fields in core, the new field storage engine in D7, and which parts of CCK are not included as well as pending tasks such as the challenges of developing the upgrade path to D7.
