Drupal.com gets a Facelift. She's looking good!
We're excited about the re-design of drupal.com: newcomers get a great place to learn about Drupal, and Drupal gets the slick showcase it deserves.
By Jeff TraynorDrupal & open source
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Rotators Unite!!
Katherine Bailey compares the many duplicated Drupal 6 featured-content rotator modules and welcomes plans to merge Views Cycle and Views Rotator.
By Katherine BaileyGit for Drupalers in 2 Minutes
Installing and upgrading Acquia Drupal 6 from a GitHub repository in a few steps, plus a mini-FAQ on git, Drupal 5, contrib modules and submodules.
By Roland TanglaoDrupalCon DC Wrap-Up
Katherine Bailey's DrupalCon DC 2009 highlights: scalable ajax, reusable features with Context and Spaces, HTML 5 and CSS 3, and a Quick Tabs code sprint.
By Katherine BaileyAcquia Drupal 6 version 1.2.1 checked into Github.com
Roland Tanglao learns git by checking the Acquia Drupal 1.2.1 release into GitHub, with step-by-step commands for checking in, cloning and updating.
By Roland TanglaoA simple Ajax image gallery system for Drupal
A step-by-step technique for building an Ajax image gallery in Drupal 6 with CCK, Imagefield, Imagecache and Views 2.
By Hubert FlorinHappy 6th Birthday to Creative Commons
Much of remix culture and grassroots creativity is predicated on Creative Commons licensing. Here's a CC primer for its 6th birthday.
By Dave OlsonFearlesss City and Vancouver Drupal Geeks Code Sprint for Festive Good!
Vancouver Drupal ringleaders call a festive social with a purpose: a code sprint for Fearless City, a Downtown Eastside non-profit.
By Dave OlsonHomelessNation.org Wins Awards and Changes Lives
Homeless Nation, a Bryght-hosted Drupal site, recently won two awards: most excellent work in technology use and community building.
By Dave OlsonDrupal - The Open Source Era, Web 2.0 and China's Future
Eleven months of Shanghai Drupal meetups, Drupal's 2008 Open Source CMS Award, and how Drupal is spreading in China.
By XiongDrupal is the Packt Publishing's CMS Winner (again)
On Halloween, Packt Publishing named Drupal the overall winner of its annual open source CMS award, repeating its 2007 win.
By Dave OlsonBringing the Drupal Breeze to Campus
Raincity Studios' Shanghai developers take an introduction to Drupal 6 to Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Minhang campus.
By Peggy XieÆgir Beta1 released - Built for hosting and managing multiple Drupal sites
Adrian Rossouw announced Ægir 0.1 Beta1, a set of Drupal modules for hosting and managing large numbers of Drupal sites from one front end.
By Dave OlsonAre you BAD enough for Drupal? Bay Area Drupal Camp this weekend in Berkeley
A preview of Bay Area Drupal Camp 2008 at U.C. Berkeley, a look back at BADCamp 2007, and a report from Montreal Drupal Camp.
By Dave OlsonMeetup plus Barbecue: A Two-in-One Event
Recap of the Shanghai Drupal meetup where Makara presented the Drupal 6 Form API, followed by the year's last barbecue.
By Peggy XieSending SMS in China with SMS Framework
How to use Drupal's SMS Framework module to build a gateway module that sends text messages in China, using the WINIC SOAP web service.
By Makara WangDrupal Camp Victoria: The Novice's Take
As Raincity Studios’ newly anointed Project Manager, my first line of work was to be formally christened to “Drupalism”.
By Vanessa ChuRaincity goes to Drupal Camp Victoria: Part 1 Geeks on a Ferry
Here's some community building funtimes - not much technical geekery here but some fun banter and a sense of how the extended Drupal tribe roll.
By Dave OlsonAdrian Speaks About Ægir at Drupal Con Szeged
Resources to learn about Ægir, the Drupal mass deployment system developed by Raincity/Bryght super-developer Adrian and co-maintained by Koumbit.
By Dave OlsonSixth Shanghai Drupal User Meetup: Recap, Summary and Shared Content
Recap of the sixth Shanghai Drupal user meetup, with Mike Yao's slides on AHAH dynamic forms in Drupal 6.
By Peggy XieHow DrupalCon Szeged Was for Me
Four amazing days at DrupalCon Szeged: JavaScript patterns, Adrian's Aegir presentation, a jQuery double session and great conversations.
By Katherine BaileyDrupalCon Szeged Day 1
I'm just in from a fantastic day 1 of DrupalCon here in Szeged.
By Katherine BaileyBryght Hosting -- DNS Flaw Resolution
A flaw in the DNS protocol, published as CVE-2008-1447, allows an attacker to spoof a DNS response. Here is how it was patched.
By Narayan NewtonDrupal Camps around the Northwest and Beyond
A compendium of recent Drupal Camps in Seattle, Alberta and Portland, with recap resources and a pre-announcement of Drupal Camp Victoria.
By Dave OlsonAn Introduction to Drupal Unit Testing
What unit testing is, why it matters, and how to get started with the Simpletest module in Drupal.
By Harry WangThe Lowdown on jQuery in Drupal - Part Three
jQuery Update ships jQuery 1.2.6 for Drupal 5 and 6; Drupal.theme and Drupal.t() in JavaScript; and modal dialogs in the admin via the Popups module.
By Katherine BaileyOpen Source CMS News Round-up - Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla etc.
A round-up of open source CMS news in June 2008: Drupal's history and future, Dries Buytaert on Webmonkey, open source solidarity and Vancouver Joomla Day.
By Dave OlsonRaincity Studios "Basic" theme on Drupal.org
Raincity's internal Base5 theme, renamed Basic, is contributed to drupal.org for Drupal 5 and 6: clean HTML, SEO-friendly load order, fixed or fluid layout.
By Steve KruegerDatabase Migration Part II
Detailed steps and PHP code for importing legacy data into Drupal: mapping tables, content ownership, CCK fields, import order and path redirects.
By Audrey FooMobile Text Messaging for Drupal with SMS Framework
Raincity extended Drupal's SMS Framework with message receiving and the Mobile Muse gateway, powering SMS microblogging on Sifttool.com.
By Tylor ShermanHostmaster development rolling
The HostMaster (HM2) roadmap for Drupal mass hosting: bug fixes, minor and major version upgrades, weekly IRC planning, and a call for co-maintainers.
By Boris MannNew base theme for Drupal 6
Hubert Florin explains Raincity's lightweight Zen-derived base themes, base5 for Drupal 5 and the new base6 for Drupal 6, with fixed or liquid layouts.
By Hubert FlorinThe Lowdown on jQuery in Drupal - Part Two
Katherine Bailey on updating jQuery Update, Drupal 6's Drupal.behaviors pattern, the jQuery UI plugin, and ahah.js and tabledrag.js.
By Katherine BaileyDrupal Camp Shanghai was a Hit!
We had a good Drupal Camp Shanghai! Over 60 people attended over 12 sessions and discussions despite the heavy rain on Sunday.
By Reno PengProject outline and UI Design for an AJAX-powered Image Gallery Module
Hubert Florin outlines a flexible, node-based, AJAX-powered image gallery module for Drupal, with UI design goals and a reverse bounty plan.
By Hubert FlorinThe Lowdown on jQuery in Drupal - Part One
Katherine Bailey follows up her Drupal Camp Vancouver talk: how jQuery entered Drupal core, and the jQuery Update and Interface modules in Drupal 5.
By Katherine BaileyDrupalCamp Vancouver - Drupal Theming, from Design Draft to Theme
Slides, the Base5 base theme and the Nautica example theme files from Raincity's Drupal theming talk at DrupalCamp Vancouver.
By Mark YuasaLive from the Minnesota Search Sprint, Day One
Day one of the Drupal search sprint in Minnesota: node ranking, distributed search, the OAuth module and first experiments caching search results.
By Djun KimSearch sprint goals
Goals for the Drupal search sprint: distributed search with OAuth, user and profile search, full-text strategies, and testing and benchmarking.
By Djun KimLooking forward to the Drupal Search Sprint in Minneapolis
Thanks to OpenBand's sponsorship, I'm heading to Minneapolis in May for the Drupal Search Design sprint.
By Djun KimSHDUG me mucho!
The third Shanghai Drupal User Group meet-up drew 30+ people for a more technical session on nodes, taxonomy, CCK, Views and theming.
By Ronan BerderThanks for having us, CCI2008
CCI2008 wrap-up: presenting on open source and data sharing, controlling slides over Bluetooth, and a lunch talk with IBM's DITA architect on DITA in Drupal.
By Boris MannA Personal Take on DrupalCon Boston 2008
A first open source conference: highlights from DrupalCon Boston 2008, from John Resig on jQuery and the Coder module to Dries's keynote and DrupalChix.
By Katherine BaileyUI design for Drupal modules
Drupal 6 brought welcome usability gains; the Views 2 UI work shows why contributed modules now need good interface design, not just functionality.
By Hubert FlorinThe emergence of RDF for Drupal 6, and first public details of some long time clients
How a long-time client's enterprise Drupal platform is moving to Drupal 6 and standardizing on RDF, with Exhibit driving the interface.
By Boris MannDrupal 6 Released and Ready to Manage your Content
Drupal 6 is released: what the new installer, multi-language support, OpenID, templating and draggable blocks mean, and what is planned for Drupal 7.
By Dave OlsonCCK - CoCKTaiL Part 3
A CoCKTaiL-based code generator that turns CoCKTaiL input into PHP for import into Drupal via the CCK Content-copy module.
By Djun KimDrupalcon Boston & the iPhoneUnlockcon
A first-timer's look ahead at DrupalCon Boston 2008: the theming, design and development sessions worth catching, plus an iPhone unlocking meetup.
By Steve KruegereLiberatica 2008 in Romania - The benefits of Open and Free Technologies
After the success of last year's eLiberatica the organizers are going ahead with an 08' version.
By Smith MilnerDrupalCon Boston 2008 - China Session Proposal need your vote
A proposed DrupalCon Boston 2008 round table on the state of Drupal in China: who uses it, the community, translation and barriers.
By Robert ScalesRaincity Shanghai Kicks off Drupal Users' Group
Raincity Studios Shanghai and the Shanghai PHP user group hosted the first Shanghai Drupal User Group meet-up for over 60 people.
By Dave OlsonDrupal Theming, From Design Draft to Theme
A free Vancouver League of Drupalers talk at Raincity's Gastown office on Drupal theming from the ground up, with the topics covered.
By Mark Yuasa2008 wishlist
High hopes for Raincity Studios, Vancouver and open source in 2008, and why the bazaar model beats cathedral-style management.
By Audrey FooSession Proposals for DrupalCon Boston 2008
Boris Mann's DrupalCon Boston 2008 proposals: mapping business requirements to Drupal modules, and a BOF on RDF and the Semantic Web.
By Boris MannCoCKTaiL - a CCK Type Language
Issues facing large Drupal projects built on CCK content types, and a proposed remedy: CoCKTaiL, a high-level language for CCK types.
By Djun KimCoCKTaiL, part 2
The draft CoCKTaiL grammar for Drupal CCK types, and how to build its parser and lexer with PHP ports of Lemon and plex.
By Djun KimSpread Firefox - Now even more Spreadable!
Raincity Studios and the Mozilla Foundation deploy an upgraded, Drupal-powered SpreadFirefox community site.
By Dave OlsonTon 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 TanglaoRoland'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 MilnerDries 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 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 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 ErikssonDrupalCamp 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 MannJoin 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 TanglaoWebvisions 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 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 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 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 KrugGoogle 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 MannLight 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 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 TanglaoDrupal 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 WalkerVirtualization and you
Boris Mann on how Xen virtualization changes web app hosting: reliability, resizing virtual servers and scaling with virtual clusters.
By Boris MannMultisite 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 MannMultiDomain 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 WittensjQuery 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 WittensPro 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 MannSome 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 ColeTake Back The Power
Raincity Studios' client Cope 378 has just launched a new Drupal community site called Take Back The Power.
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 TanglaoNina 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 ColeDrupal 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 HermansDrupal 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 HermansIBM 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 MannRedesigning 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 MannDrupal 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 TanglaoPT: 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 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 MannOpen 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 MannGoogle 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 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 KrugNTC 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 KrugNotes 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 TanglaoBeing 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 PateCivicSpace Labs helps launch GoodStorm online ecommerce
Congrats to the CivicSpace Labs team for helping get GoodStorm, a Drupal-built merchandising service for non-profits, out the door.
By Boris MannLisa Williams, Drupal, and OPML
Boris Mann on H2Otown as a Bryght-hosted Drupal site, and how Drupal's book module could map to OPML for outline editing.
By Boris Mann[Drupal Con AMS 2005] Chad Phillips - Drupal undelete, Angela's form thoughts
DrupalCon Amsterdam 2005 notes: Chad Phillips on a Drupal undelete/trash system, and the debate over Form API backward compatibility.
By Roland Tanglao[Drupal Con AMS 2005] Chris Messina on Microformats and Drupal
Session notes from DrupalCon Amsterdam 2005: Chris Messina on microformats principles, rel-tag, XFN, hCalendar, hCard and what they mean for Drupal.
By Roland TanglaoFirst Innovation Commons Meeting at Take5 Cafe
Boris Mann of Bryght has been tinkering with the concept of an "open" shared office space in Vancouver — an artist commons for businesses.
By Robert ScalesAsterisk comes to Drupal
The Asterisk open source IP PBX community moves its news site to Drupal, and a new module brings telephony integration to Drupal.
By Boris MannBryght Security
Drupal security releases are applied automatically for Bryght customers; the latest patch is already rolled out to the entire customer base.
By James WalkerDries Buytaert - OSCON and Portland 2005 Drupal Conference Cool People
You wouldn't know that Dries is the founder and project lead of Drupal if you had hung out at the booth with him at OSCON.
By Roland TanglaoOpen Source Momentum and the greatness of commodity
TinyMCE lands in WordPress and Drupal bundles: how open source momentum turns features like WYSIWYG editing into commodity.
By Boris MannOSCON and DrupalCon in Portland
Boris Mann's report from OSCON 2005 and DrupalCon Portland: who came, local user groups, Drupal in education and hub-and-spoke sites.
By Boris Mannjvd is coming to OSCON
John VanDyk heads to OSCON 2005; Boris Mann on why Drupal's publish and subscribe modules beat RSS for passing rich content between sites.
By Boris MannDrupalART website launched
DrupalART is a site dedicated to helping people build and develop Drupal sites for artists and musicians.
By Colin BrumelleBryght's Recording Artist and Record Label Platform in Development
Bryght starts developing 'Backstage', a platform for artists and labels to build online communities and open new revenue streams.
By Colin BrumelleiPhoto plug-in for Drupal
A new Drupal module implements the Gallery Remote protocol, so tools like the iPhoto plugin can mass upload images into Drupal.
By Boris MannReverse Bounties Round Two: RFF Portfolio Module
The first reverse bounty was a success: the securesite module is live on Drupal.org. Here is my Request for Funding for a portfolio.module.
By Boris MannDrupal "Theme Garden"
Coinciding with the 4.6 release, Drupal.org has started the Drupal Theme Garden, an homage to Dave Shea's CSS Zen Garden.
By Mark YuasaTrained Wolves
Don Park made several blog posts about open source 'wolves' "shredding value" by duplicating proprietary functionality.
By Boris MannReverse Bounties
A "reverse bounty" is a concept I was discussing at the 2005 Drupal conference.
By Boris MannDrupal and Raincity, Sitting in a Tree...
We've hit upon a brilliant platform in our pursuit of Web 2.0: it's called Drupal.
By Mark YuasaRCS and Bryght at TechVibes - Massive 2005
I had a great day at Massive 2005, Mark and I hanged out with the Bryght guys and helped with handing out information on their hosted CMS service.
By Robert ScalesDrupal Conference videos online
Audio and video of the first Drupal conference (DrupalCon 1, FOSDEM 2005) are online, including James Walker's "Multimedia in Drupal" talk.
By James WalkerDrupal Is Starting To Become Real Competition
A CRM News article on Six Apart's purchase of LiveJournal names Drupal as a potentially fierce competitor to Movable Type.
By Richard ErikssonThings to look forward to in Drupal 4.6
Today officially marks the code freeze for Drupal 4.6: a quick run down of new features contributed by Bryght.
By James WalkerDrupal in Education Round-Up
I've always thought that education and Drupal would go great together.
By Boris MannA Drupal-backed website is necessary
A great customer quote after a Drupal demo: "We need this; it's necessary!" It's 2005, you need to be able to edit your own website.
By Boris MannSpirit of America: Why not choose open source?
Spirit of America is paying $32,000 for an Arabic blogging tool. Why not open source? Drupal supports Arabic script out of the box.
By Boris MannLast Week's Whirlwind
So, as Roland and James have mentioned, last week was hectic but also energizing and fun.
By Boris MannThoughts from the Drupal Dinner
A few thoughts following a week in Vancouver, meeting Dries and the CivicSpace gang.
By James WalkerRandom Dries, Drupal and CivicSpace thoughts from last week
Stream-of-consciousness notes from the Vancouver Drupal and CivicSpace dinner with Dries Buytaert in October 2004.
By Roland TanglaoD is for Dries
Dries, the "Linus Torvalds" of Drupal, was in town for OOPSLA and we took advantage of this to organize some Drupal related events.
By Roland TanglaoPresentations made easy
What if your next presentation didn't require PowerPoint, and instead simply make use of your Bryght site?
By James WalkerUsing a Bryght Site to Achieve #1 Rankings in Google
Bryght sites are even more effective than blogs for achieving a high Google rank. Why? Two reasons.
By Roland TanglaoOpen Source Development and Documentation Project
A technical writing class will create an end user documentation manual for Drupal 4.5 — and the timing is good for our Drupal User Guide.
By Boris MannBryght is a HOSTED open source stack using LAMP + D
Like SpikeSource, Bryght offers a stack of open source software; the Bryght stack is LAMP + Drupal, or what I call LAMP+D.
By Roland TanglaoAdaptive Path and Jeffrey Veen - help us improve Drupal's usability and Dries will donate time and we'll donate a Bryght site
Jeffrey Veen complained about the usability of open source CMSs like Drupal; Dries offered 4 hours of implementation for every hour of review.
By Roland TanglaoGroups in Drupal
Drupal supports Clay Shirky's two pieces of social software: groups and conversations/shared awareness. But how are groups supported?
By Boris MannDrupal theme garden - powered by the new template system.
The Drupal Theme Garden, built in the mould of the CSS Zen Garden, lets you test out the available Drupal themes.
By Adrian RossouwDrupal comes second in Open Source CMS Report
Dmitirios Michelinakis reviewed 7 open source CMSs, and Drupal came in second after Typo3.
By Boris MannDrupal Does This: Sticky Posts
Elise finds five ways to keep a post sticky at the top in Movable Type. Drupal does this easily and quickly with two check boxes.
By Richard ErikssonHarold and Cameron's Drupal Review for Rick Bruner: Some commentary
Harold and Cameron's review of Drupal for Rick Bruner's blog is comprehensive, but I think they missed a couple of things.
By Boris MannNot switching to Drupal
Scott Laird is sticking with Movable Type, but praises Drupal's PostgreSQL support. And I admit it: I hate trackback.
By Boris MannDrupal Bookmarklet
I was just idly wondering about bookmarklet functionality for Drupal.
By Boris MannFOAF and Profile Syndication
Bryght is working on distributed authentication and profiles for Drupal, starting with a revamped FOAF module.
By James WalkerYour 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.