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6 days
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Creating a Local Commnuity in Geneva
Sorry if French is bad. I have been kind of quiet for the past few months. This is because I have just moved from Minneapolis, US to Geneva, Switzerland to start work at
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Shelter Centre. It's a very exciting move for me for many reasons; but that isn't really the intention of this post.
Anyway, what is really amazing, is that after being here for only two weeks, (with a little bit of help) I was able to get almost 25 local people together for drinks and Drupal! How? About a month or so ago, I couldn't find any information on a Geneva Drupal meetup; so I started a thread to "announce" my migration and to see if anyone was interested in a meetup, and voila! We had a couple dozen wonderful people talking about Drupal tonight. Also, we had very good feedback, and should be able to make this a monthly thing. My sincerest apologies for not knowing French yet, but I am on my way.
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6 days
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As read in Dries' blog post about Drupal 8 there will be a framework and an application maintainer for Drupal 8. I would like to be the framework maintainer but obviously the decision is Dries'. My actual coding contributions have decreased
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significantly recently anyways and this would be a fantastic way to continue contributing to Drupal. I will write more on this blog about our goals for Drupal 8.
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7 days
ago
Lullabot is proud to announce that not only will Todd Ross Nienkerk & Aaron Stanush of Four Kitchens be speaking at Do It With Drupal this year, but Four Kitchens is also a sponsor!
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7 days
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In the discussion following my last post about cron and the cache hit rate, I promised to do some testing of the different cacherouter backends, as well as Boost. Again, these tests focus on the needs of a smallish site with 500 nodes and 1200
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requests per day. Boost is the clear winner for response time (which shouldn't be a surprise given that it allows the web server to deliver HTML files directly from disk). What's interesting though is that the response times are all close enough that it doesn't really matter what caching backend you choose (An end user cannot perceive the difference between 6ms and 2ms, and throughput isn't an issue at this scale). The only factor that's really relevant is how good your system's cache expiration and regeneration logic is. I haven't yet had a chance to explore this aspect in detail, but it seems like Boost is the clear winner here as well.
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7 days
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I am working on a type of advanced profile (actually zipped site and sql dump) that will enable others to get Drupal and Ubercart 2 up and running within minutes.
You can see and USE the demo at http://ubercart.venturacottage.com Out the box it has been configured to handle:
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7 days
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[Click "Read More" to see the embedded video for RSS readers...]
Is it just me or is this video proof that Druplicon is freelancing on the side?
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7 days
ago
This short article explains how to quickly and easily add Google Translate functionality to Drupal content without hacking any blocks or the actual content itself. You simply stick it into a page template where it belongs.
I guess this
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should be done up as a module like the Google Analytics module, which helps you configure the addition of the necessary HTML and Javascript code to the pages you want through an admin interface, especially considering you need a Google key for Analytics.
But for Google Translate you do not need any keys yet and this is so simple it's hardly worth the CVS.
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7 days
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It's been almost 4 months since my Drupal 7: What's In It For You? presentation and in that time we've had: Drupalcon Paris, Code Slush, Code Freeze and numerous code, UX and doc sprints. I thought now might be a good time to check out the latest
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from CVS and see what's new.
A lot is new. Drupal 7 should prove to be a huge step forward for Drupal. This post will focus mostly on some of the big end-user features that have gone in since the end of August.
New Admin and Installer Theme
Just as I was getting on the train after Drupalcamp Philly, I saw Dries' tweet about the new Seven administration theme. The Seven theme is a clean, single-column theme from Mark Boulton Design that aims to create a delineation between the admin side of Drupal and the user side of Drupal.
It looks so nice that it even serves as the new installer theme.
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Posted
7 days
ago
It's been almost 4 months since my Drupal 7: What's In It For You? presentation and in that time we've had: Drupalcon Paris, Code Slush, Code Freeze and numerous code, UX and doc sprints. I thought now might be a good time to check out the latest
... [More]
from CVS and see what's new.
A lot is new. Drupal 7 should prove to be a huge step forward for Drupal. This post will focus mostly on some of the big end-user features that have gone in since the end of August.
New Admin and Installer Theme
Just as I was getting on the train after Drupalcamp Philly, I saw Dries' tweet about the new Seven administration theme. The Seven theme is a clean, single-column theme from Mark Boulton Design that aims to create a delineation between the admin side of Drupal and the user side of Drupal.
It looks so nice that it even serves as the new installer theme.
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7 days
ago
Ever since Open Atrium went public we've been working on integrating our knowledge management features into it. Yesterday we cleared the final hurdle to get our stack into beta. In this screencast you'll see the following features/modules in
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action:
Knowledge trail
Semantic WYSIYWYG editor
Semantic filters/layers
Faceted insert
Graphmind
In the next months we want to wrap our features into a new distribution. Obviously this all still needs some clean up and it'll take us still a bit of time to finish the package. Somewhere early 2010 we'll start providing a hosted version of the distribution to make it's functionality accessible for people that want hassle free functionality upgrades or that don't have the knowledge/time to do security updates.
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