Multisite and Mass hosting Drupal
How Bryght built HostMaster for mass Drupal hosting, why it went GPL, and where multisite, networks of networks and OpenID identity were heading.
By Boris MannBlog · 2006
104 posts published in 2006.
MultiDomain Module for Drupal 5
I have just completed the first version of my new MultiDomain module for Drupal 5.
By Adrian RossouwDrupal OpenSearch Aggregator
I just committed a working version of my new OpenSearch Aggregator module to Drupal Contrib CVS.
By Steven WittensSocial Media Club Vancouver Intro Roundtable Video
Video of the introductions at the Social Media Club Vancouver launch, and Roland Tanglao's reflections on how far social media still has to go.
By Roland TanglaojQuery Menu Scout
Out of a whacky conversation on IRC comes the latest treat for Drupal 5.0: find any administration page with a couple of keystrokes.
By Steven WittensNew Media BC Day
Technology branding for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games: ideas from New Media BC Day at the Great Northern Way Campus.
By Megan ColePro Drupal Development: New Apress book on advanced development with Drupal
Woo-hoo! This is the book we've all been waiting for: an invaluable handbook on how to program with Drupal.
By Boris MannMicrosoft Expression Web
Microsoft is releasing a standards-based web design tool, Expression Web, alongside Office 2007, meant to replace FrontPage.
By Megan ColeSome Industry News...
Notes from the Drupal training workshop co-produced with Bryght, plus news on the CRTC, wireless recharging and the first network videoblogger.
By Megan ColeChina Turns To Big Film Names To Promote Beijing 2008
With Beijing 2008 under two years away, a question mark remains over citizen journalism and blogging from the Games in China.
By Megan ColeTake Back The Power
Raincity Studios' client Cope 378 has just launched a new Drupal community site called Take Back The Power.
By Megan ColeThe Paradox of Registering Bloggers' Real Names in China
China's Ministry of Information Industries may soon require all bloggers in China to register their real names if they wish to keep blogging.
By Megan ColeVancouver League of Drupalers October 2006
Meetup notes: MothersClick, PopSugar, flixya, DrupalSites.net, GoDrupal.com, the Drupal Association, Canadian payment gateways and NowPublic.
By Roland TanglaoFirefox 2 and IE7
Reviews and talk on both sides of the browser coin as Mozilla's Firefox 2 and Microsoft's IE7 launch in the same week.
By Megan ColeNewfoundland Never Felt So Web 2.0
From the St. John's International Women's Film Festival: a panel on the social web and how filmmakers can use online tools to promote their work.
By Megan ColeNina Gordon: Drupal Site Launched!
Raincity partnered with Warner Brothers Records and Boompa Arts in creating a new Drupal website for pop artist Nina Gordon.
By Megan ColeElasticPathing
A Friday afternoon at Elastic Path, the Vancouver e-commerce software company whose new Drupal site Raincity is building.
By Megan ColeTen Steps to Organizing a Barcamp
A ten-step guide to organizing a BarCamp: date, wiki and mailing list, graphics, promotion, volunteers, sponsors, venue and lift-off.
By Crystal WilliamsPodcast on the North Shore: Andre Charland & Nitobi
A podcast with Andre Charland of Nitobi on the North Shore, talking Nitobi, Grid 3.2, Ajax, doglotion and skiing.
By Megan ColeCaseCamp Vancouver
Last night I attended Vancouver's first CaseCamp, an un-conference focused on marketing that makes use of technology.
By Megan ColePresenting at BCTIA Go 2 Market Roundtable: Using the tools of Web 2.0
What are the tools of web 2.0? Marketing ideas and basic concepts around blogs, wikis, and customer interaction for a BCTIA roundtable.
By Boris MannDrupal Con Brussels - Day 2, Afternoon
Wrapping up Drupal Con Brussels 2006: afternoon sessions on multilingual Drupal and a wiki module, and news of the next Drupal Con.
By Erik HermansDrupal Con Brussels – Drupal Wiki Session
Moshe Weitzman's session on a fully baked wiki module for Drupal, plus the best current options for wiki functionality in Drupal.
By Erik HermansDrupal Con Brussels - MultiLingualism with Drupal
Jose A Reyero led a session on handling multilingual sites and content with Drupal: current abilities, gaps and next steps.
By Erik HermansReflection on Barcamp Shanghai
How China’s first barcamp came together in under a month: planning, sponsors, a blocked wiki, and 60+ participants in 19 sessions.
By Robert ScalesDrupal Con Brussels - Day 2
Day 2 at Drupal Con Brussels: Ontwerpwerk on Drupal theming and Dominik Lukes on a university faculty website built with Drupal.
By Erik HermansDrupal Con Brussels - Day 1
Erik Hermans checking in from Drupal Con Brussels after the morning sessions.
By Erik HermansEnd of Day 1 Drupal Con Brussels
It’s end of Day 1 at Drupal Con: highlights include Lullabot’s MTV UK site built with Drupal and Dries Buytaert on the Drupal Foundation.
By Erik HermansHappy OneWebDay!
Today marks the first OneWebDay, a global day to celebrate online life in the same vein as Earth Day.
By Megan ColeGovCamp in Brussels
Steve and I spent the day at GovCamp, an un-conference for government bodies learning Web 2.0 and social networking.
By Erik HermansChina Access: September Program Day Two
Day 2 in Beijing: a panel on China's creative industries, from games and animation to the challenges faced by creative companies.
By Raincity StudiosRaincity Radio Back On The Podwaves
We've taken a little hiatus from the mic here at Raincity, but we're bringing it back with a podcast from WorkSpace.
By Megan ColeFrom Energy to Software, China Readies for Innovation
Day 1 of the China Access September Program in Beijing: a crash course on China's emerging energy and software markets.
By Raincity StudiosFirst Ruby Meetup "A Hit"
This past week saw the first meetup for the Vancouver Ruby Brigade, and seventeen Rubyists turned up.
By Megan ColeIBM developerWorks Feedback, Best Practices for Maintaining Drupal Installs
Feedback on IBM developerWorks' Drupal article series, and best practices for multisite installs: local modules folders, CVS checkouts and symlinks.
By Boris MannSnapping Shots Along Suzhou Road
At BarCamp Shanghai, the first of its kind in China, Kris Krug of Bryght will facilitate a PhotoCamp and PhotoWalk through Shanghai.
By Megan ColeWelcome To Now
Raincity Studios and Now Communications announce the launch of Nowgroup.com, a Drupal site with a custom theme and Flash.
By Megan ColeLiving Without Borders
Raincity has just launched Living Without Borders, a WordPress community blog about retirement.
By Megan ColeBarCampVan: The Midway Mark
We are half way through our Saturday at BarCampVancouver, the 24-hour stint we call BarCamp.
By Megan ColePhoto Camp
Matthew Trentacoste, Kris Krug and Warwick Patterson held a BarCampVancouver session on anything and everything photographic.
By Megan ColeThe Vancouver Sun: More Words From Scales
Foreign newsprint and blogging on Mainland China: Robert Scales speaks to The Vancouver Sun about the blogosphere on the ground in China.
By Megan ColeBarCamp Shanghai - The First BarCamp in China
Raincity Studios and Bryght are headed back to China and are helping to organize BarCamp, bringing it to Shanghai this September.
By Kris KrugBlogHer 2006
I just spent the last 2 days at BlogHer in San Jose, California.
By Megan ColeBlogHer: Building Traffic To Your Blog With Elise Bauer
Elise Bauer gets traffic. Notes on her session about what you can do to build your traffic and keep people coming back.
By Megan ColeBlogHer: The Power of The Blog
People around the world jump at ways to try and help those suffering when major catastrophes strike — and the blogosphere is a direct resource.
By Megan ColeMATCHTAG!
Matchtag is the latest "match-up" site to hit the internet, but it's NOT a dating site: it's a place to find friends for any activity at any given time.
By Megan ColeBuilding Better HTML Emails
Mark Wyner gave a great and thorough talk on all the aspects to consider in building a better HTML email for you and your company.
By Megan ColeMatt Mullenweg: Scaling For Your First 100K Users
Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress and Akismet, led a session on getting those first 100,000 users.
By Megan ColeLet Go, Jump In: Community Marketing Strategies for Empowered Customers
Webvisions panel on the integration of social media: Brian Oberkirch, Jeremiah Owyang and Dan Saffer on community marketing.
By Megan ColeWebvisions 2006: The Iterative App Workshop
Workshop on the process of creating and managing iterative projects and applications with speaker Kelly Goto.
By Boris ChowWebvisions: Practical Business Blogging Panel
There are a lot of control issues to try to bust through in business blogging - DON'T have a PR firm run your blog.
By Megan ColeRedesigning Bryght
The Bryght team sat down for a roundtable on what the new site should include: clearer messaging, identity systems, Jabber and more.
By Boris MannThe Potential of The Mobile
Two days of talking mobile, games, carriers, publishers and users: quality matters immensely and people in this industry want and need to connect.
By Megan ColeThe Mobile Community
Jason Ford, VP of Strategy and Planning at Namco, moderated a panel discussion on the mobile games community.
By Megan ColeUsing Camera and Other Phone Bits
Mark Pierce, CEO of Super Happy Fun Fun, Inc., on using the camera and other phone bits: think revolutionary rather than evolutionary.
By Megan ColeDrupal Camp Seattle 2006
A wrap-up of Drupal Camp Seattle 2006, a Drupal training camp and hack-fest for about 50 aspiring Drupal geeks at the Hugo House in Seattle.
By Kris KrugDrupalCamp Seattle 2006 Video Redux
Inspired by Kevin Marks' BloggerCon IV videos, I recorded DrupalCamp Seattle with an old Canon Elura and QuickTime Broadcaster. Lessons learned.
By Roland TanglaoGnomedex 2006 Wrap
Raincity has been heading south to Gnomedex for several years, but this was the rookie year for MC.
By Megan ColeBlake Ross: Firefox
Blake Ross at Gnomedex on why Firefox was created: simplicity, a user-friendly browser for the general population — specifically, their parents.
By Megan ColeIdeas for corporates: a question blog
How can a large corporation with an old-school legal department connect with an enthusiast community without blogging? A question blog.
By Boris MannInteracting with Bloggers 101: Permalinks, Product Info, and Personality
What should PR and marketing departments give bloggers? Three P's: permalinks, product info, and personality.
By Boris MannJeremy Zawodny: Social Software and Social Media
Notes from Jeremy Zawodny's Gnomedex session: too much social software, not enough time — and a call to think about content and people.
By Megan ColePirillo's Pitch: TagJag!
TagJag is the new name to Pirillo's metasearch engine, Gada.be — plus the VCs' feedback on how to get ready for the big pitch.
By Megan ColePT: The MacIver of Open Source Hardware
Phillip Torrone, aka Gadget Geek, asked us why open source is good — and how open source hardware could change the world.
By Megan ColeGnomedex 2006
Day one of Gnomedex 06 in Seattle: RSS Days, open standards, broadband, Senator John Edwards and new product launches.
By Megan ColeDrupal Camp Seattle 2006: Day One
General consensus after Day One: Wow, there's a lot to take in, share, gain, learn, absorb.
By Megan ColeDrupal Camp Seattle Underway
All hands were on deck bright and early this morning for the first of two days of Drupal Camp Seattle.
By Megan ColeSan Francisco Drupal Tour
Dries Buytaert, head of the Drupal project, will be in San Francisco at the end of June for a Drupal Road Trip, and I'll be joining him.
By Boris MannVIDFEST: Day Two
Day two of VIDFEST opens on Granville Island with a keynote from Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on innovation and the future of games.
By Megan ColeEverythingCasting Tomorrow at Vidfest - I'm presenting with Robert Ouimet
Robert Ouimet and I present EverythingCasting at Vidfest: promoting yourself cheaply on the two-way web with photo blogs, podcasts and videoblogs.
By Roland TanglaoVIDFEST Kicks Off with the International Partnering Forum
Hal Josephson of MediaSense opens VIDFEST's International Partnering Forum on Granville Island with the questions behind a partnering strategy.
By Megan ColeOpen source and your non profit
A NetSquared Remote Conference talk on open source for non-profits: culture, philosophy, and the business and technical aspects.
By Boris MannChecking in From China Access 2008 Conference in Beijing
Ni hao! Just a quick check-in from the China Access 2008 conference here in Beijing.
By Kris KrugChina Access 2008 Business Forum Reflections
I'm here at the China Access 2008 Business Forum getting a whirlwind business tour of China the day before my first ever business trip to Beijing.
By Kris KrugHTCE - "What Citizen Journalism Means to Corporate Communications" Wrapup
Notes, tips and links from the HTCE panel on citizen journalism and corporate communications, and why so many citizen journalism sites run on Drupal.
By Roland TanglaoE3 Wrap-UP
I just returned from E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, in LA and what a busy week it was!
By Kris KrugDrupalCamp Toronto and BarCamp TDot
A report from Drupal Camp Toronto — CiviCRM, a "CiviCRM.ca" idea, site recipes and the Liquid Wiki module — and the first day of BarCamp TDot.
By Boris MannInterview with Douglas Sarine and Kent Nichols, Co-Founders of Ask A Ninja
Interview with Douglas Sarine and Kent Nichols, co-founders of Ask A Ninja, in Los Angeles, May 8th 2006.
By Robert ScalesGoogle Summer of Code : ImageMagick Support
This year I have made time to be a mentor in the Google Summer of Code program, with a proposal for proper ImageMagick integration in Drupal.
By Adrian RossouwSelenium Powered Drupal Black Box Testing
I have a dream: everything in Drupal is automatically tested with both user-oriented black box tests and developer-oriented white box tests.
By Roland TanglaoScalable Static File Hosting and Some Thoughts on Amazon S3
Static file serving in Drupal requires an entire bootstrap. Here is an architecture for highly scalable static file serving outside Drupal, plus Amazon S3.
By Boris MannComVu talks community
Kris and I met the ComVu team, whose Pocketcaster app streams live video from a cellphone, about adding community and video blogging.
By Boris Mannnew robert scales dot org website design
After nearly a month of neglecting my blog, I am re-launching robert scales dot org with a beautiful new header design.
By Robert ScalesWeb 2.0 Social Software Lunch Session at Raincity Studios
On Friday I spent a couple hours at Raincity Studios chatting about social software and Web 2.0 tools with their design and development teams.
By Kris KrugWeb 2.0 Social Software Lunch Session at Raincity
Kris Krug of Bryght led a Raincity lunch session on social software and web 2.0 tools like Bloglines, del.icio.us, Technorati and Upcoming.
By Megan ColeThe Skinny on the Success of 30 Days of Sustainability
While the annual 30 Days of Sustainability event has come to a close, the practice and purpose of sustaining our communities continue.
By Megan ColeGmail for domains (and a few other email solutions)
We got accepted into the beta program and started using Google's hosted Gmail solution. So far, it's working great.
By Boris MannTech Village Switch On Event With Communicopia
After NTC and Penguin Day in Seattle, I drove back into Canada to keynote at a cool new tech conference called Switch On put on by TechVillage.
By Kris KrugA look back on SXSW 2006
My first SXSW: 10 days in Austin, Texas, armed with a video camera, a digital SLR and my Mac.
By Robert ScalesNTC and Penguin Day
I'm here in Seattle for Penguin Day, a one-day free and open source technology conference alongside the Non-Profit Technology Conference.
By Kris KrugSXSW Wrap-Up
Well, internet spring break is officially over. SXSW was an awesome experience for Bryght.
By Kris KrugMesh - Canada's Web 2.0 conference and Gnomedex - 2 great conferences
Being in Vancouver has many advantages: our Web 2.0 community is better connected with Seattle and the Valley than with the rest of Canada.
By Roland TanglaoNotes from first Vancouver Drupal Users Group Meeting
Boris Mann's notes from the first Vancouver Drupal users group meetup: introductions, a CCK demo, the Views module and TinyMCE.
By Boris MannDrupal powered Vancouver Daily Specials from your phone?
Roland Tanglao imagines a Drupal-powered, location-aware mobile app for Vancouver daily specials built on Navteq's points-of-interest data.
By Roland TanglaoI just asked GMail to steal my email
I'm not a fan of email. I wish I got less of it, got better/richer email when I did receive it, and that I didn't have to host it.
By Boris MannBill Burnham's Unified Theory for Web 2.0
Boris Mann on Bill Burnham's theory of search, social networking, structured blogging and RSS, and why Drupal suits the "Active Web".
By Boris MannBeing a Good Open Source Service Provider
After years of using and implementing open source software for clients I finally made it to an open source conference.
By Will PateWhat does Corporate Blogging mean?
Boris Mann answers Forrester's Charlene Li: corporate blogging can mean a blog, an intranet, an information router or a CMS.
By Boris MannComvu - to Provide Raincity and Bryght LIVE Mobile Video Broadcast Device for Torino
A demo of ComVu’s live mobile video broadcasting platform, which will be loaned to Raincity and Bryght for the Torino Olympics.
By Robert ScalesVancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan to be the First Quadriplegic to Accept Olympic Flag Next Month in Torino
Covering Mayor Sam Sullivan and John Furlong’s announcement at Vancouver City Hall for Urban Vancouver, filmed on a PDA2K smartphone.
By Robert ScalesLearning from training
Lessons from a four-hour Intro to Blogging session on Bowen Island: blogs vs. websites, Flickr, and why usernames and passwords were the hardest part.
By Boris MannM-AUDIO MicroTrack 24/96 Professional Digital Recorder
Looking for lightweight, portable podcasting gear that works without a laptop, I tried the M-AUDIO MicroTrack 24/96 and was sold instantly.
By Robert ScalesChina Access 2008, The Chinese Connection
On mentors and business process: how meeting Hal Josephson in Banff led Raincity to China Access 2008, a Beijing Olympics project, and a first trip to China.
By Robert ScalesNew Website: Lundin for Africa
Raincity Studios and Richards and Chan launch the Drupal website for Lundin for Life, a non-profit fundraising site for a motorbike expedition across Africa.
By Robert ScalesYour business deserves to be found.
Tell us about your project. We answer in English or French, and we travel anywhere in the MRC de Papineau.