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Drupalcon SF 2010: DrupalCon Mobile Site is Live
Drupal.org news - Tue, 09/14/2010 - 13:00
Hello everyone, if your wireless drops or if you do not have a laptop just use your smart phone. The mobile site has a useful interface to view the schedule by day and by track.
I am hosting a BOF in room 206 at 4:15pm today, Monday to present how we created the mobile version of the DrupalCon website. The mobile version will automatically load for all webkit based smart phones.
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Acquia: Membase and Drupal
Drupal.org news - 2 hours 16 min ago
Barry and I just met with a team from Northscale -- the startup formed to support and extend Memcached, the popular key-value cache used by the largest web sites. We learned about their new database project, Membase, and talked about how it could help high-volume Drupal sites including our Acquia Hosting customers.
Membase is built on the core Memcached technology and supports the Memcached API. I'm excited about what they've done to extend Memcached: Read full article »
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Damien McKenna: Test upload
Drupal.org news - 3 hours 50 min ago
Testing out the Drag'n'Drop Uploads module to see how it works.
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Randy Fay: What's wrong with Mollom?
Drupal.org news - 5 hours 57 min ago
So Mollom absolutely stinks, as far as I'm concerned.
I just posted this comment on http://www.istos.it/blog/drupal-training/open-sourcing-drupal-training:
The Examples for Developers project is an open-source training initiative. I'm trying to get it used for developer training and to have books on Drupal development use it for examples instead of rolling their own (which invariably get out-of-date and can't be maintained.)
I encourage you in this (vast) initiative.
And what did I get?
Your submission has triggered the spam filter and will not be accepted.
That's about the fourth time I've taken the time to write a comment on a Drupal Mollom-enabled site, and gotten that kind of a response. How many comments are being rejected inappropriately on sites that use Mollom? Who will ever know?
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Localize.drupal.org: Drupalcon Copenhagen multilingual coverage, Jacob Redding talks Localization server
Drupal.org news - 7 hours 53 min ago
I just had the chance to listen to the latest DrupalEasy Podcast published earlier this week, where Ryan Price and Mike Anello interview Jacob Redding on his work, book, and Drupal's general greatness in many fields. Jacob was an early supporter of the Localization server idea that was built out to eventually power http://localize.drupal.org, so it was great to hear that he gives some exciting coverage of the topic (at about the middle of the podcast). He explains the Localization client and its connection to the server and how these two interact to get as many people submit translations as possible. If you are not using the Localization client yet, this might be a good time to look at it.
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Ronald Ashri: Open Sourcing Drupal Training
Drupal.org news - 9 hours 36 min ago
As Drupal gains popularity, the need for developers is increasing and consequently so is the need for trainers. Let's make sure that the first point of contact for people to the community is a positive experience by open-sourcing our methods of teaching.
How do you explain Drupal to someone completely new to both Drupal and to content management systems? What are the metaphors that people have found work best?
How do you go about introducing hooks and the menu system to developers? Views, Panels, CCK, Context?
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Wim Mostrey: The Wysiwyg and CCK multiple value fields
Drupal.org news - 9 hours 59 min ago
Setting up a Wysiwyg or rich text editor in Drupal is a straightforward task: you download the Wysiwyg module along with the library of your favorite editor and you're good to go. You will run into issues when you're using CCK multiple value fields though:
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Pronovix: Modulecraft: fundraising to make a Drupal DITA documentation distribution
Drupal.org news - 10 hours 55 min ago
This week we launched modulecraft.com a fundraising tool that we want to use to raise interest, involvement and money for the development of a series of tools for Drupal professionals. Pure donation systems like chip-in have a pretty bad track record, but a donation/reward system has to our knowledge not yet been tried in the Drupal community. When you donate you will be contributing to the community AND getting something valuable in return.
We launched the platform with Documentation+, our first fundraising effort which primary aim is the development of a Documentation distro for Drupal.
For a couple of years now, people in the documentation team have been wanting to implement a DITA architecture for the documentation. DITA is an open standard managed that was initially developed by IBM that is now managed by Oasis. It is fairly young, but has gained a lot of momentum in the documentation industry.
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Chris Shattuck: Using the Evernote module to manage an entire Drupal website with a desktop application
Drupal.org news - 12 hours 26 min ago
This tutorial is sponsored by the Save Joseph campaign. Only 6 more days to save one man from a roomful of teeth. http://savejoseph.org.
I've recently been using the Evernote module to blog, which has made my life surprisingly more rich. After building the module, I started using it right away and found it was the missing piece in creating a workflow that would encourage quality, rapid posting - something I've always wanted to be able to do. Now that its set up, I feel like I can write with virtually no overhead, and using images - kind of tricky when using webforms and wysiwyg - is about as easy as it can get. Even adding annotations is super simple with Skitch (writeup for a workflow with Skitch is imminent).
The ease with which I can create content made me wonder if maybe I could run an entire Drupal site's content off of Evernote. So I gave it a shot when setting up http://josephcowman.com, and it worked like a charm!
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Linnovate: First Drupal site in the Israeli goverment
Drupal.org news - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 17:55
We're very proud to see the first fruit of several months of work and several year of building the Drupal enterprise eco-system in Israel.
The first site shipped, http://shituf.gov.il is a site which exposes the latest rules and discussions from the government to the public.
That way legislators get a very short feedback loop on the current activity and the public gets to state it's opinion and vote up or down on the stream of new rules and political activity.
This "political digg" is the first time in Israel where official governmental activity is letting the public create content in the website and the first time Drupal and it's underlaying open stack is used in official governmental hosting.
The site is seeing great engagement (for instance a rule about monitoring the state of israeli education had 544 votes, divided almost equally and hundreds of comments.
Shlomi Tsadok, Our reprasentitve in the government has led this project and we are showing day after day the flexability, ROI, lower TCO and general awesomeness which is Drupal.
YADGSCTL - Yet Another Drupal Govermental Site Comes To Life (I'm not sure about the popularity of the acronym, but Drupal is gaining popularity in Enterprise Israel and that what counts :) ).
World Domination is now.
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Jimmy Berry: Drush, Drush Make, other Drupal packages, and development setup for openSUSE
Drupal.org news - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 15:15
I have recently added drush and drush make packages to my openSUSE repository. For more information or to report bugs on the packages please visit their respective project pages: drush and drush_make.
To install the packages you can use the one-click installers provided by the build service or manually add my repository and install the packages as shown bellow.
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Drupal Connect: A Developer’s Guide to What’s New for Drupal 7
Drupal.org news - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 14:45
There are approximately 38 critical issues that need to be resolved before Drupal 7 beta gets released. For more on these beta blocker issues check out: Drupal Core Improvements.
With this post I want to encourage you to install Drupal 7 alpha, test it out, and ultimately help to fix the critical issues and speed up the beta release.
You'll need a localhost LAMP or XAMPP environment to follow along with the examples here. If you don't have one set up I recommend using the Acquia Stack Drupal Installer.
Once your testing environment is configured, download Drupal 7.
Installing D7
Save the installer to your localhost Drupal /sites folder and extract it. Set up your MySQL database using your preferred method. Note to developers: D7's new database abstraction layer will theoretically support multiple database types including SQLite, PostgreSQL, MSSQL and Oracle. So if you are running Oracle you may be able to use D7.
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agileapproach.com: Using a settings page to change the number of results in a view
Drupal.org news - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 13:09
Many sites have views that are used to generate a large number of sections/pages on the site, and you may want to easily change the number of results without having to edit the view. It's easy to create a settings page that will allow you to configure the number of results.
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Localize.drupal.org: New suggestion export and deeplinking features on localize.drupal.org
Drupal.org news - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 12:12
We've launched the Drupal.org redesign theme on localize.drupal.org about six weeks ago, and the reception was great. While other subsites like api.drupal.org are also in the process to migrate to this theme, we could pioneer some fixes and get them into production. We keep tweaking the theme on this site and get fixes in based on your feedback.
Some great feature additions landed since the last update. The most requested new feature is that you can now export all outstanding suggestions with translations. In case of multiple outstanding suggestions for any one string, the suggestions will be in comments. In case of single suggestions, the export uses Gettext's fuzzy facility and just marks the string as "not ready". Look for this option on the language export screen.
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Lullabot: Drupal Voices 140: Nathaniel Catchpole on Drupal 7 performance improvements
Drupal.org news - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 12:08
Nathaniel Catchpole (aka catch) talks about some of the performance-related patches that he has been focusing on for Drupal 7. When Dries gave his State of Drupal keynote address in DrupalCon San Francisco, he presented the Top 20 Drupal 7 core patch contributors and catch was at the top of the list with over 337 patches that he was involved with by that point. He notes that a lot of his patches were a series of smaller performance-related patches that he discovered by using profiling tools such as XHProf and XDebug. He talks about some of the performance changes that got into Drupal 7, as well as how he's been able to work on Drupal 7 core through his job at Examiner.com.
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Dries Buytaert: Capgemini promoting and using Drupal
Drupal.org news - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 11:24
This year in my keynote at DrupalCon San Francisco, I mentioned that the elephants are coming. Well, earlier this week Capgemini, one of the world's foremost consulting providers with 95,000 employees, announced a new service, Capgemini Immediate. I'm pleased to say that they're using Drupal as a foundational technology for their new Immediate platform.
Capgemini Immediate is an offering which helps organizations to build and run on-line services. It consists of a number of preferred technologies (i.e., Drupal, MySQL, Salesforce, Lithium, etc.), best practices, and an ecosystem of preferred partners of which Acquia is part.
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Ronald Ashri: Drupal has some (entity) relationship issues
Drupal.org news - Wed, 07/28/2010 - 20:22
With entities Drupal took a huge step forward in providing conceptual clarity in how it deals with things like users, comments, taxonomy terms and nodes.
I believe there is one more step to take to bring even more clarity that will hopefully be possible in Drupal 8. This is the content of my Core Developer Summit lightning talk- hopefully it is not completely off the mark.
With entities Drupal took a huge step forward in providing conceptual clarity in how it deals with things like users, comments, taxonomy terms and nodes.
I believe there is one more step to take to bring even more clarity that will hopefully be possible in Drupal 8 (or 9!). This is the content of my Core Developer Summit lightning talk- hopefully it is not completely off the mark.
It goes something like this:
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There is a module for that!: Hacking Managing News, part 2: Monitoring topics
Drupal.org news - Wed, 07/28/2010 - 19:32
Compared to Tattler, one of the weaknesses of Managing News is the lack of topic monitoring - where a user inputs a keyword phrase representing a topic and the system takes care of tracking this topic across pre-selected RSS sources.
Soon after we started using Managing News, this requirement came up.
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Lullabot: Drupal Voices 139: Mike Carper on the Boost module
Drupal.org news - Wed, 07/28/2010 - 13:17
Mike Carper (aka mikeytown2) talks about the Boost module, which a lightweight performance enhancement for small-scale sites that don't have a lot of dynamic content. After adding some apache rules to the .htaccess file, then Boost will translate Drupal pages into static HTML files and serve those directly instead of going through PHP and MySQL. Carper talks about some of the other caching configuration options, and says that this module is perfect for sites on shared hosting that are looking for a performance boost. He says that Boost can actually make your site slower in some cases where you have a lot of content that is frequently updated. In those cases, Varnish would probably be a better solution, but the Boost module is intended to be a quick and easy solution for smaller websites looking for better performance.
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Chris Shattuck: How to use images for menu items in Drupal with a simple preprocessing function
Drupal.org news - Wed, 07/28/2010 - 12:40
This tutorial is sponsored by the Save Joseph campaign, a grassroots effort to find a good friend, stellar artist and all around amazing person a satisfying, creative job in the next 8 days. I know the Drupal community could use this kind of talent. Learn more about the effort at savejoseph.org. If you have any ideas on how I can get the word out about this, let me know!
My use case was that I wanted to be able to use social media icons for menu items so that we could re-arrage, add or remove items directly from the menu management interface:. The result is what you see below:
To use images for menu items in Drupal, the first step is to create an override theme function for theme_menu_item_link() in your theme's template.php file. The idea is to first run your image handling bit to switch out text for images, and then hand it over to the parent theme to do the rest. In my case, I'm using the Zen theme.
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