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Skip to video and slidesA couple weeks ago I put out a blog to garner feedback on why Drupal kicks serious a**, and a big thanks to everyone who responded. I integrated a number of the comments with my own personal experience with Drupal and presented my talk last week to a diverse group of 20 or so web tech people in the l (Read More)
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Sometimes, you read things on the web and they just stick in your head. Randomly nagging at you to do something about them.Well, on Friday, I ran across a tweet by @djay75, which I will repost here.Governments trust plone. There are 5 times as many US gov #plone sites as #drupal, (e.g. FBI, CIA). Why? security http://bit.ly (Read More)
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Over a year and a half after Drupal 6 was released, I've finally gotten around to releasing a Drupal 6 version of the Ocadia theme. The design is based on a Wordpress theme done by Beccary and subsequently ported to Drupal 4.7 by Scar_T. I came on-board after creating a Drupal 5 version of it for one of my friend's websit (Read More)
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How many times have you been coding something and it doesn't work even though you've used an api/function call hundreds of times before? I ran into this the other day with node_load(). For those of you use the node_load function, can you tell me how many arguments it has and what those arguments do (without looking at api (Read More)
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Config to Code module for Drupal 5 makes it easy to deploy new views and panels and to version-control changes to existing ones with a source code repository like subversion. It makes it quick and easy to move configured views and panels in the database to code, then safely delete the configured views from the database and (Read More)
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I don't get asked to review books often, so I was delighted when I got asked to review Drupal 6 Search Engine Optimization by Ben Finklea, it being top of my list of Drupal books to buy. Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is all about improving your site's position in search results. It's part science, part art, and invo (Read More)
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Drush and Drush Make belong in every Drupal developer's toolkit. This is a make file that will build the following:Drupal 6.14 (or latest)ApacheSolr moduleSolrPhpClient hosted on code.google.comAcquia Connector module (from Drupal.org)Acquia Search module (from Acquia's svn repository)This demonstrates four different method (Read More)
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Kent Bye interviewed me (Bevan Rudge) in early September at DrupalCon Paris about Drupal in New Zealand, CivicActions and some recent projects. Yesterday Lullabot released the podcast as Lullabot Drupal Voices 75.
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Automatically tagging content is becoming easier with services like OpenCalais and Yahoo Terms Extractor, offering their APIs for free semantic analysis of content. There’s even a great Drupal module, Auto Tagging (with a great writeup on usage) that ties these services together and makes it even easier. However, there is s (Read More)
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You may or may not have noticed the launch of the second iteration of the Drupal automated testing system last Thursday. I am very excited to have the system up and running and by the possibilities it opens up.In order to help others get a feel for some of the new features that it provides and how the features can be used I (Read More)
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It would seem Google has rolled out a new indexing/display feature that finds breadcrumbs and displays them instead of URLs for certain search results. Drupal's already game, it seems, judging by numerous searches I've taken a glance at today:I guess since Drupal's built towards this kind of data heirarchy, Google quickly a (Read More)
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Alpha releases available for the reckless Admin 2 provides a versatile, pluggable UI for administrative tools in Drupal and is complemented by a new theme Rubik that radically reduces visual noise. Alpha releases are available for users interested in testing. This code is v (Read More)
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My life is once again in transition. For those that don't want to read this entire post, I'm shifting my work-life to focus more on freelance. So, with some regrets (but also excitement) I'm leaving pingVision, the Drupal shop based in Boulder Colorado for new adventures. In this new role as projects wrap up I'll write a (Read More)
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rapidfire-2.mp3
Drupal.org Redesign Get it done
White House discusses Drupal at DC Meetup
Drupal 8 by Dries
Drupal wins multiple Packt Publishing Awards
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I had a great time last weekend taking part in DrupalCamp Austin as a learner, a helper, and a presenter. I also enjoyed sharing an apartment and eating meat (and/or ice cream ) with my fellow Commerce Guys, Mike and Tim, and it was doubly fun to get reacquainted with folks I hadn't seen since last year's Drupalcon Szeged (Read More)