Ton Zylstra's new path includes working with Drupal
One of the best things about bloggers is reading, listening and watching their stuff online and then actually meeting them in the real world.
By Roland TanglaoBlog · 2007
84 posts published in 2007.
Roland's Rabble discusses Open Source Mobile Phones with the Raincity Crew
Roland Tanglao released a Dogma Radio podcast in which Raincity's Audrey Foo and Dave O discuss the open OpenMoko phone and next-gen phone options.
By Smith MilnerOpera CTO Publishes Open Letter to Microsoft
Opera CTO Hakon Wium Lie recently published an open letter to Microsoft to encourage them to make their IE browser standards compliant.
By Peter GordonVancouver is an Intelligent Community - so says the Forum
Vancouver makes the Intelligent Community Forum's Smart21, and what the broadband economy criteria say about the city's strengths and weaknesses.
By Dave OlsonDries Buytaert announces his post university gig: Acquia, a Drupal startup
Like Dries, I believe the future of Drupal lies in distributions: the right bundle of features, configuration and theming for different audiences.
By Boris MannVancouver League of Drupalers November 2007
Stream of consciousness notes from the Vancouver League of Drupalers: Lauren Bacon on gender in technology, plus Drupal site demos.
By Roland TanglaoThousands of lines of code, millions of dollars
Inspired by Ohloh, I've started work on a static analysis / code metrics tool specifically intended for PHP / Drupal.
By Djun KimThursday is Drupal Day at Raincity Studios
Raincity's new "Drupal Day Thursdays": we turn off client work and switch to community work, and why contributing code back benefits clients.
By Dave OlsonBadcamp Rolls on - The message: Drupal is big
BADCamp session notes: scaling Drupal.org under massive traffic, and a case-study tour of popular and high-profile Drupal-powered sites.
By Dave OlsonBAD Behaviour Encouraged at Berkeley Camp
A Raincity Studios contingent is southern-bound for BAD Camp, the Bay Area Drupal Camp in Berkeley: a community-built conference.
By Dave OlsonFreetheNet.ca seeks to free the devices
The freethenet.ca crew of tech-revolutionaries met up last night to discuss "what's up? what's next how's it going?"
By Dave OlsonFree as in Freedom! Raincity Studios beaming wi-fi in Gastown
A group of community-minded geeks are mobilizing and rolling out free wi-fi for the people of Vancouver, and Raincity now hosts a node.
By Dave OlsonBoris Mann speaks about Drupal, Wi-fi and Ham
Back from DrupalCon Barcelona, Boris Mann talks with DaveO about the state of the Drupal world and the origins of FreeTheNet.ca.
By Dave OlsonWise Drupalists Roll with Locals
The Drupal community is local too: Groups.Drupal.org connects Drupalists who want to meet up, and the Vancouver League of Drupallers meets monthly.
By Dave OlsonTweaking Drupal Search
How to make Drupal's search module match the parts of hyphenated words using hook_search_preprocess() and a half-dozen lines of code.
By Djun KimAnother Raincity Radio - this one about Drupal Barcelona
A new Raincity Radio podcast features the Raincity crew fresh and jet-lagged after Drupalcon Barcelona.
By Dave OlsonCooperation and Openness - Bonus podcast show notes
Another Raincity Radio podcast out the door, Cooperation and Openness in the Vancouver Tech Community - here's the full description.
By Dave OlsonBig 'Lectronics Store working the Social Media
A big electronics retailer invites Vancouver's bloggers and podcasters to an in-store, live-to-web HDTV presentation.
By Dave OlsonDrupalCon 2007 Barcelona
Erik here checking in from DrupalCon 2007 Barcelona! Day one and the conference is off to an amazing start.
By Erik HermansDrupal for the Rest of Us
So why does Drupal matter to the non-techies? A non-techie's explanation of what a content management system does and why we like Drupal.
By Dave OlsonWhat Would Seth Godin Do?
I developed the What Would Seth Godin Do? module, a Drupal 5 block that greets visitors with a friendly message for their first few visits.
By Richard ErikssonFree Wi-fi for the People of Vancouver
In Vancouver, like many other cities, complaining about the weather is the local pasttime.
By Dave OlsonUnwire your block one Meraki at a time
There's no need to wait for the mythical City of Vancouver WiFi. Build your own WiFi mesh today with a Meraki box.
By Roland TanglaoDrupalCamp LA 2007 and California Final Thoughts
Thoughts on DrupalCamp LA and this part of California: people, Drupal install profiles, deployment, theming, the venue and more.
By Roland TanglaoDrupalCamp LA Drupal Install Profile Session - Now with updated slides!
My Anatomy of a Drupal Install Profile session at DrupalCamp LA was well received; the updated slides are now available.
By Roland TanglaoHyper-local Drupal Community building in Olympia, Washington
I am in Olympia, Washington today meeting with a few Drupalists and community enthusiasts and recorded an episode of Radiocity Radio about Olyblog.net.
By Dave OlsonDrupalCamp LA Session - Install Profiles or how to share your awesome Drupal Webapp
Built an awesome Drupal website or webapp and want to share it or clone it to save config time? Then Drupal Install Profiles are for you!
By Roland TanglaoDeveloping Facebook Apps with Drupal VIDEO - Vancouver Drupalers August 2007
What if a Drupal developer could easily develop Facebook apps the "Drupal way" without having to learn the "Facebook way"?
By Roland TanglaoFacebook Apps with Drupal
The Donat Group showed the Facebook API modules they are building to make it easier to build Facebook apps with Drupal.
By Boris MannVancouver *is* TechCouver - Get on the Map
Dave O, the newly minted ambassador and erstwhile evangelist for Raincity Studios, offers a bit of commentary on the Vancouver tech scene.
By Dave OlsonBarcamp Vancouver wrap up!
It was great to be part of the organizing team of the second Barcamp in Vancouver.
By Robert Scalesemail2 - Security through privacy
email2 is the tool for you if you are looking for a hosted, secure email solution that helps you to observe regulatory requirements.
By Roland TanglaoTwo OpenID Screencasts
OpenID is an open decentralized identity framework where you can get your own identity and re-use it across the internet.
By Roland TanglaoGnomedex 2007: Round-up and Review
Being the newest runt at Raincity Studios, and a first time Gnomedex'er, I came into the event not knowing what to expect.
By Steve KruegerJoin the drupal association
The Drupal Association is shaping up nicely, and annual memberships are now available. Raincity signed up. How could we not?
By Robert ScalesCreative Commons on the Lab with Leo
About a month ago I went on the Leo Laporte show to discuss Creative Commons.
By Kris KrugProduct Development vs Service Provider: Raincity Studios, a Drupal service provider since 2004!
Why Robert built an open source service firm rather than a product company, with Raincity's numbers from $26K in 2003 to $840K in 2007 and the lessons learned.
By Robert ScalesJoyent meetup and thoughts on virtualization
Notes from the first Joyent meetup in Vancouver: application hosting, OS-level virtualization, and shipping production Xen images for local dev.
By Boris MannLooking for Help in Documenting Drupal's Syslog Module
I've written skeletal documentation on the new Drupal Syslog module, and I'm asking the community for help routing log messages beyond a file.
By Richard ErikssonFORPeace - A web site for Peace and Community
FORpeace.net is a recent Bryght Light site, already compelling and moving, built on Drupal with the Bryght Basic install profile.
By Roland TanglaoProgressive U - students blogging for progress
Progressive U has nurtured students blogging about progressive issues since starting as a Bryght Light site in February 2005.
By Roland TanglaoGreenCityBlueLake - thinking strategically about the sustainability of Northeast Ohio
GreenCityBlueLake is a Bryght Light site that has become an online community workspace where people tell their sustainability stories.
By Roland TanglaoSouthlands in transition: Re-imagining South Delta and Tsawwassen 500 acres at a time
Imagine if you could participate in the development process for 500 acres of prime property like the Southlands in South Delta.
By Roland TanglaoDrupal continues to gain momentum as we near Drupal 6 functionality lock down.
What do The Prince of Darkness and Tim Berners-Lee have in common? Both use Drupal, downloaded 600,000+ times in a year.
By Robert ScalesCommon Craft - designing online communities that work
What if you built an online community and nobody showed up? Common Craft's 'social designers' help communities start on the right foot.
By Roland TanglaoDrupal and the Music Industry: Sony BMG's Adventure in Drupal Land
How Raincity joined Lullabot and other Drupal shops to help Sony BMG build Music Box, its Drupal-based band platform.
By Robert ScalesWeb of Change - The intersection of social change, online strategy and technology
Web of Change is not your typical tech conference, and its Drupal website on a Bryght VPS lets every participant live blog their session notes.
By Roland TanglaoLocation based content via mobile devices
Kinan Sweidan of ximda.com on the state of geo location on mobile devices: GPS, tower ID, wifi and Bluetooth, and their limits.
By Erik HermansWeb Visions Day 2 - Keynote and Closing Remarks
The Ask a Ninja keynote closing WebVisions 2007: the past and future of online video, and what they learned from other web series.
By Erik HermansWebvisions 07 - Improving Interface Design, Part 2
Part II of notes from Garrett Dimon's WebVisions 2007 session: document and code better, avoid specialization, cut features.
By Mark YuasaWebvisions 07 - Must Have Open source Apps
Brian Jamison's Must Have Apps at WebVisions 2007: Trac, Drupal and an as yet unnamed Ruby on Rails ecommerce app.
By Mark YuasaUser Experience Design: Why Understanding People is the Most Important Thing
Todd Wilkens of Adaptive Path on the revival of user experience: to create great user experiences you must understand people.
By Erik HermansWeb Visions Day 1: Keynote and Closing Remarks
David Pescovitz's WebVisions 2007 keynote on coping with cognitive overload and sipping from the information firehose.
By Erik HermansWebvisions 07 - Improving Interface Design
Notes from Garrett Dimon's WebVisions 2007 session on improving interface design: understanding design, cultivating culture, thinking critically.
By Mark YuasaTokyo Yokohama Information Source - An expat resource
Are you an expat seeking Tokyo Yokohama information? A Bryght Light Drupal 5 site shows how far one person can take the Garland theme.
By Roland TanglaoDrupal gets 20 Google Summer of Code projects for 2007
Wow. 20 projects accepted for Drupal for the 2007 Google Summer of Code, plus favourites: RSS/Atom, Jabber/XMPP, scalability and SMS.
By Boris MannReverse Bounty: backport configurable watchdog logging to Drupal 5
Boris Mann organizes a community reverse bounty to backport Khalid's configurable watchdog logging (syslog, text file, email) from Drupal 6 to Drupal 5.
By Boris MannCleanly Overriding Core Modules in Drupal through the Magic of Multisite
With Drupal's multisite file path scanning, a module in your local sites/domain.com/modules directory overrides one higher up the search path. Here's how.
By Boris MannChangeEverything One Change at a time
Act locally, think globally. That's one of the premises behind the Bryght VPS site ChangeEverything.ca, built on Drupal.
By Roland TanglaoSaskatchewan Interactive 2007 - EverythingCasting Presentation
Roland Tanglao's EverythingCasting talk at Saskatchewan Interactive 2007: Listen. Create Compelling Content Constantly. Repeat.
By Roland TanglaoCongress for the New Urbanism
The Congress for the New Urbanism uses Drupal for a site that is both a brochure and a dynamic online community.
By Roland TanglaoSXSW: A Decade of Style
Day one at SXSW Interactive: the CSS panel moderated by Eric Meyer on the history, rise and current state of CSS.
By Erik HermansSXSW: After the Brief: A Field Guide to Design Inspiration
Notes from a SXSW session on finding design inspiration with Jason Santa Maria and Rob Weychert of Happy Cog Studios.
By Erik HermansSXSW07 - The Real Story Behind Snakes on a Plane
The first SXSW Interactive 2007 panel explored the hype around Snakes on a Plane and the user generated content created by fans.
By Robert ScalesSaskatchewan Interactive 2007 - Convergence or Divergence in Tomorrow's Web
Session notes: Chris Brooks and Scott Bateman (U of S) on the Semantic Web, Web 2.0 and why the two need to converge.
By Roland TanglaoSaskatchewan Interactive 2007 - David Vogt's Mobile Muse mobile war stories
Session notes: it's about experience design, living labs, open mobile tools, and why small groups struggle to take their first steps into mobile.
By Roland TanglaoWorking With Warner Brothers Records on Online Music Communities
Bryght helps Warner Brothers Records deploy Drupal 5.0 with a base install profile to power artist music and fan community sites.
By Kris KrugNorthern Voice 2007 - Best yet
Northern Voice was amazing again this year. I dare say the best ever!
By Roland TanglaoGoogle Apps now extensible: open source connections?
We've long been recommending Google Apps for your domain as a great email and calendaring solution.
By Boris MannOlyBlog - a placeblog for Olympia, Washington
How Olyblog, a placeblog for Olympia, Washington, built a following on the Bryght Hosted Service with blogs, forums, an aggregator and "docents".
By Roland TanglaoLight Blue Line - exploring the effects of global warming
What would happen if all the ice in Greenland melted? Bruce Caron and his colleagues are exploring this with their Drupal site, lightblueline.
By Roland TanglaoCreative Commons is awesome
Richard Patton asked about the Creative Commons Attribution License I used for Bryght's screencasts. What is it, and why and how should you use it?
By Roland TanglaoFuture of Open Source Software Panel at Vancouver PHP Conference 2007
How does Open Source affect the future of the software industry? Has Open Source "won"? A panel at the Vancouver PHP 2007 conference.
By Roland TanglaoCountdown to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
As Vancouver's Olympic countdown clock is unveiled amid protests, Robert recalls Torino and Beijing and asks: are we building a sustainable city past 2010?
By Robert ScalesSnapz Pro X Screencast Colophon
For my future reference, the following are my settings for the screencasts so far that I have made using Snapz Pro X.
By Roland TanglaoYahoo Pipes - Check out Bryght Pipe
Go Yahoo go! Unix pipes for the Web generation! A first Yahoo Pipe that combines all the Bryght RSS feeds together.
By Roland TanglaoAuthenticated Distributed Search (OpenSearch, OpenID)
Approaches for authenticated distributed search across a network of secure Drupal sites using OpenSearch and OpenID, from naive HMAC to OpenID extensions.
By Steven WittensDrupal 5 Screencasts: Colors, Logo, FAQ with CCK, View for FAQs
Four Drupal 5 screencasts: changing Garland colours, uploading a logo, a CCK content type for FAQs and a View for FAQs.
By Roland TanglaoHow to support Mobile Content Creation in Drupal
A conversation with Now Public's Mark Schneider on encouraging users to post more mobile content, summarized for Drupal sites on the Bryght wiki.
By Roland TanglaoAnother week, another release, breaking my head on install profiles
A new bryghtbase release on Drupal 5, and the case for a library of CRUD functions to make Drupal install profiles easier.
By Boris MannOpenID Mashpit Vancouver Recap
Last night's OpenID Mashpit went well: a demo of work-in-progress code, clarity on Attribute Exchange, and a Drupal-based OpenID Provider for Bryght.
By James WalkerKidzworld: One Of The Largest Ruby On Rails Sites Ever Deployed
Kidzworld launches: a fully moderated, safe and secure social networking site for kids, built entirely in Ruby on Rails by Raincity.
By Megan ColeIPhone vs. iPhone
Cisco Systems is suing Apple Inc. in US Federal Court over its IPhone trademark, days after Apple unveiled its own iPhone.
By Megan ColeVirtualization and you
Boris Mann on how Xen virtualization changes web app hosting: reliability, resizing virtual servers and scaling with virtual clusters.
By Boris MannYour 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.