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Morbus Iff: 60BWC Teaser 2 Arrives

Posted over 2 years ago

There's new teaser content over at my newest project 60 Blank White Cards, including ruminations about one (of four) inspirations for the game, as well as some very early sketches from our resident artist. Check it out!

Perplex City was an ... [More] alternate reality game (ARG) with purchasable, but optional, puzzle cards, as well as a cash prize for the first player to find the stolen Cube. While other ARGs have toyed with physical items earned or found by players, as well as "prizes" (like playing Halo 2 before anyone else), none have yet replicated Perplex City's particular approach. I tend to think this is for two reasons: the mystery and the money. [Less]

Groups - Events: Toronto August Meetup: Drupal 6 - What's new

Posted over 2 years ago

Start: 2007-08-14 18:30
End: 2007-08-14 20:30
Join us for our monthly meetup where we'll be looking ahead at the new goodies coming in Drupal 6. I'll provide an overview of both the API changes as well as the new features - with demos! Drupal ... [More] 6 is in code freeze now, so it's time to start looking ahead and getting excited for what should be another killer Drupal release this fall!

Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm Tuesday, August 14th
Location: LinuxCaffe 326 Harbord St. [map] [Less]

Jeff Eaton: All kinds of busy

Posted over 2 years ago

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August 9, 2007 - 11:38am

I've been all kinds of busy for the last several weeks, and haven't bothered posting much to any of the usual spots. Drupal 6's pre-beta cycle is rolling ... [More] along, though it seems to be a little less purposeful than the last release cycle. It feels a little like the community is waiting for something to happen, without being sure what that something is.

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Dries Buytaert: CBC using Drupal

Posted over 2 years ago

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is using Drupal for one of their cross-media shows: Exposure.

The site lets people share their short movies with a national television audience and online community. Each week, the community helps determine the videos they think should get on TV. (Hat tip: Khalid)

Joshua Brauer: User profiles as nodes or not in Drupal

Posted over 2 years ago

As I go through the lullabot podcasts one of them hit on a challenge I'm working on. I have a series of related sites and the need to have complex user profiles and different user profiles for different roles. There are several ways to do this with ... [More] modules that make user profiles into full blown nodes. Then a little CCK/Views magic and life is very good. The problem is that then user profiles are nodes.

So you say that's what I wanted and in many ways it is but I want to do two things that the profile module does and don't work with profiles as nodes. First I want to share tables for profiles but not share a node table. Your identity is the same on the network of sites but the content is different on each site. Second I want the field-level access control that comes with profiles. The CCK table structure works much better for my needs as these are each 100-field profiles. It seems for the moment that short of rewriting the profile module, which the current timeline doesn't allow, I'll have to forgo the sharing of profile tables and disable search on the site overall (not a huge loss in this case) and then maybe take a look at the profile module. In the end I think we probably need profiles that are pseudo full nodes.

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Roel De Meester: Openid and Plaxo

Posted over 2 years ago

Plaxo is rolling out it's version 3.0 (beta) of their webapplication.
They've bought the group of young developers around http://hipcal.com/ , and my guess is that it's those guys who have played an active role in the complete rework of their ... [More] webapplication.

Some points of interest.

They support Open-id. Great to see another big player support it. Drupal was already rewarded for their work to support OpenID (http://drupal.org/node/162356)
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BoldSource.com: Fuzzysearch Module Initial Release

Posted over 2 years ago

The initial release of the fuzzy search engine model is finally here. I have implemented it here on my blog for anyone that would like to give it a quick try. To download the module visit the official release page. I'd really like to get some test ... [More] users so that I can get some feedback on the results and performance.

Thus far, I have been able to test it on my blog which has a limited amount of content. However, preliminary results are showing well on speed performance over search.module. I think this mostly has to do with not using temporary tables and not using a call to node_load on each of the results, I chose to join the teaser and title from {node_revisions} and {node} respectively.

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Edison Wong: Ready for Testing: New DB2 Driver for Drupal

Posted over 2 years ago

After 4 days (!?) development, a new DB2 driver for Drupal 6.x is now ready for testing. It takes IBM's D5 DB2 implementation as base reference, and reuse almost all Oracle driver for Drupal 6.x progress for overcoming DB2-specific limitations.

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Károly Négyesi: gophp5 is gaining traction

Posted over 2 years ago

Rumor has that PHP4 EOL thread got started very shortly after one PHP team member talked to one of the gophp5 guys.

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2bits: Drupal load test Google Summer of Code project

Posted over 2 years ago

Scott Hadfield has posted screen shots for the load test project. Load test is build on top of Drupal's simple test suite.

This shows how load tests can be automated by having various states, each with a defined set of ... [More] modules.

States can be swtiched remotely too, which is very useful when running the test in conjunction with a laod test tool, such as Apache Benchmark (ab).

This tool should prove helpful in things like benchmarking various configurations and patches.

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