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DrupalconParis: PayPal down, Early Bird +1

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:27:11 +0000

Since last night, PayPal refused to let you go through with your registrations.

It is fixed now, and you can go ahead with the Early Birds.
Due to this delay, we add one day to the deadline, which is now July 13th.

This also means, that the voting on sessions will be prolonged one day (same deadline), as otherwise you did not have a chance to vote.

Greg Harvey: Very Slick Site Maps

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:02:02 +0000

Short one today. This collection of links caused a mini stir in the #drupaluk IRC channel yesterday (thanks to longwave). Nothing dazzling, just a nice and easy approach to a really pretty site map for your Drupal website. Firstly, have you seen SlickMap CSS yet? If not, take a look-see here:
http://astuteo.com/slickmap/

It's just good old CSS. Apply it over any nested "unordered list" style menu, up to three levels deep, and it will produce a beautiful, all-CSS, site map for you like this:
http://astuteo.com/slickmap/demo/

Dries Buytaert: CIOs are starting to take notice of Drupal

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:56:24 +0000

Drupal.org recently featured a detailed use case about InterMedia Outdoors switching to Drupal. InterMedia Outdoors boasts a network of 16 websites, a portfolio of 15 magazines, 25 market-leading television productions, 2 syndicated radio shows, and more.

What the use case didn't mention is that they are migrating off of FatWire, a proprietary web content management system (WCMS) that is Forrester's current poster child in the Q2 2009 Forrester Wave for "Web Content Management For External Sites". To me, that is the most interesting part because it means that Drupal is starting to disrupt traditional web content management systems, including the leading ones.

In other words: CIOs are starting to take notice of Drupal.

Pronovix: Spezzle: Drupal specifications that require less coding

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:19:07 +0000

Imagine: you are doing a project for a customer who doesn't know Drupal. Even before she contacted you, she made a bunch of wireframes and detailed specifications. That's a dream case right? Just one problem, all the user interfaces and features are just a little bit different from the way things are done in Drupal. This is one of the problems we want to address with Spezzle.

Dries Buytaert: Australian Broadcasting Corporation using Drupal

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:06:55 +0000

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) started using Drupal for a number of properties like ABC Digital Music, ABC Country and ABC Jazz.

The ABC is Australia's national broadcaster, a public owned enterprise funded by the Australian government that has been around for 80 years.

It's really great to see the Drupal market in Australia breaking open! One day I should make it to Australia too. ;-)

Work At Play: Konigi : Tools and content curator for UX designers

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:14:29 +0000

Konigi.com

Konigi is a great website for UX professionals and those involved in the design of websites.

We love the Konigi OmniGraffle tools at our office; they are an indispensable tool in my bag of tricks.

Not your ordinary design gallery

I am a big fan of the showcase and blog. They find unique and compelling aspects that deal with all sorts of design problems. It's fast become a daily stop and a resource I'll flag for almost any new project.

Since we use Drupal a lot (like this blog), we noticed it's a fine Drupal install. I appreciate the subtle details, especially enjoying how the tagging is done, nice big images in the postings, and the home page design.

And it's very encouraging to see our own work in the showcase.

http://konigi.com/design/submissions/work-play

Josh Waihi: First PostgreSQL Code Sprint Summary

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:39:19 +0000

The first code sprint was a huge success! We had a lot of people from from Catalyst IT show up to the level 3 training room and together we looked at the issues from the PostgreSQL Code Sprint and started to create a better knowledge base around Drupal. I didn't realise how much information I had in my head surrounding PostgreSQL issues untill I started explaining the history and problems faced surrounding the issues we looked at.

Rufzeichen Webdesign: Social Rules in OSS Communities

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:31:33 +0000

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What makes people rock and roll in OSS communities? After two years of hanging out in the Drupal Crowd, there have come some observations to me that I'd like to share.

Some People are frustrated, others envived. Some stay in very long, some leave. Some do a lot of work, others mainly consume. But to many of them, the Community is an important peer group and may even feel like home. Mostly over IRC, you communicate directly with people from Melbourne, Shanghai and Los Angeles. This alone has some drive that does not cease to fascinate me.

Earl Miles: New Panels 3 UI screenshots

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:40:01 +0000

I spent the better part of a week doing nothing but this and sleep, but I think it's nearly ready. If you're brave, you can go get the current one out of CVS. I warn you, it'll be minorly annoying because I got rid of the delegator (What's that do?!) module and replaced it with the Page Manager (I bet you can guess what that does) module.

First, once you've got everything, if you go to admin/build/panels you'll see the Panels dashboard. It's really just an overlay over other stuff, because Panels itself doesn't really have a UI. But it gives UI to lots of other stuff.

Appnovation Technologies: Drupal as a Microsite Platform

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:06:50 +0000

A few days ago, I came across a question on LinkedIn about "Which tool do you recommend to build microsites rapidly?". Some users have posted about Joomla and others have mentioned Alfresco.

Development Seed: Rapidly Deploy Open Atrium Sites with Aegir

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:07:53 +0000

Ahead of next week’s Open Atrium release and to highlight some DrupalCon Paris sessions about Open Atrium and Aegir, I put together a screencast that demonstrates how you can use Aegir to rapidly deploy Atrium sites. Check it out:

Khalid Baheyeldin: TrendMicro OfficeScan reports a false positive Trojan for Drupal 6.x

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:15:38 +0000

The Drupal security team receives reports of all sorts all the time. Some of them are false positives by security scanning software. Today we got a report about a Trojan being detected in Drupal 6.10 and 6.13 by TrendMicro OfficeScan version 10, in the following files: modules/color/color.install - BQDR_IRCBOT.BZQ modules/profile/profile-wrapper.tpl.php - TROJ_SWIZZOR.KXV modules/translation/translation.module - TROJ_FRAUDLO.LL

Development Seed: The Development -> Staging -> Production Workflow Problem in Drupal

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:15:24 +0000

Anyone who has developed a relatively complex Drupal site will be able to vouch that, while launching a new site is relatively simple, continuous integration becomes very tricky once the site has actually gone live. This problem becomes especially pronounced when there is more than one developer on a project, and when the project is being built using proper development methodology.

The following example will illustrate this problem more clearly, as well as explain the use case of the Context / Features / Spaces module stack that we are writing here at Development Seed.

Building a site

This is a story of how Zak, Sara, and Ben are about to get screwed on a site build. But don’t worry, they find the Kool-Aid at the end. It’s called features.

WebWiseOne: Symantec Connect

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:45:15 +0000

Symantec, founded in 1982, is one of the world's largest software companies with more than 17,500 employees in more than 40 countries. The company provides both security and storage and systems management solutions. Their customer base includes consumers, small businesses, and some of the world's largest global organizations. The company's phenomenal growth can be attributed to a combination of market acceptance and strategic acquisitions.

In early 2008, the company's Customer Experience (CX) team started crafting a roadmap designed to consolidate several of the support and pseudo-community offerings into a single, consistent, and best-of-breed community offering. The goal of this consolidation was to give Symantec customers a single point of contact where they could engage with the company's support, marketing, and product management teams. A secondary goal was to reduce the support costs associated with maintaining a collection of disparate community offerings.

DrupalconParis: Sleep, Eat, Travel by A busy little helper

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:24:40 +0000

We have more info on

And this thanks to one of our little helpers.

Dries Buytaert: Battlefield 1943 using Drupal

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:10:10 +0000

Battlefield 1943 is out and the website is using Drupal: see http://battlefield1943.com/.

WebDevNews.net: Drupala Installation Profile 5.19 v1.0 – Social Networking & Social Bookmarking for Drupal

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:00:54 +0000

The Drupala Installation Profile is built on the Drupal 5.x Drigg Installation for social bookmarking and the Advanced Profile Kit for social networking. The site architecture makes extensive use of Views, Panels, and multiple content types to build a portal organized around taxonomy terms that includes blogs, articles, social bookmarks, and user profiles. The Drigg base theme has been redesigned to position featured categories in the primary links section and Drigg categories in the sidebar. This allows for an easy customization of the site structure to support virtually any topic. FCKeditor is pre-installed and configured for WYSIWYG blog & article publishing. The Drupala theme is two columns, optimized for APK & Drigg, and cross-browser tested in FF, IE6, IE7, Chrome, Safari, and Opera.

There are two live sites currently based around the Drupala installation profile:

Kevin Hankens: Drupal/Vim users, highlight your .module files

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:42:30 +0000

I live in Vim, but finally got tired of editing my .module files without syntax highlighting - ugh. Turns out all you have to do is tell vim what the file is so that it knows what to shade.

Make sure that the following is in your vimrc file - notice the filetype on line:

" Switch syntax highlighting on, when the terminal has colors
" Also switch on highlighting the last used search pattern.
filetype on
if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running")
  syntax on
  set hlsearch
endif

Then place the following in ~/.vim/filetype.vim, restart Vim and you are all set!

"  ~/.vim/filetype.vim
" tell Vim what a .module file is
if exists("did_load_filetypes")
  finish
endif
augroup filetypedetect
  au! BufRead,BufNewFile *.module               setfiletype php
augroup END

DrupalconParis: Voting on Sessions

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:21:39 +0000

The session proposals are done and ready.

Now you still have some time to be able to vote on them, so we can see which sessions are on the top of your lists and plan the schedule accordingly.

Get busy using your right to vote again, as this is your event!

Deadline will be Sunday, 12th July

Here is how you do it (if you don't know already):

Ivan Zugec: Using FAQ module

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:12:27 +0000

There are two options when you want to create a FAQ page for your site. One is to hand code an HTML page which can be a pain or you could use the FAQ module and save yourself the nightmare of manually adding in HTML. The module creates a FAQ content type and a nice FAQ layout page.

Top Notch Themes: TNT 2.0 and the future of Drupal themes with Fusion

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:31:27 +0000

Since late last year we’ve been dreaming of a 2.0 for TopNotchThemes. Our current base theme packs in a TON of advanced features, but there is always room to evolve. So for the past few months we’ve been listening closely to our customers and the Drupal community, and plotting ~~world domination~~ a revolution in theming.

So much of what you want to do with your sites isn’t rocket science — if you’re already a Drupal themer! We’re talking about things like adding a slideshow or sidebar pullout menu, changing the theme width, adding a different list style, changing a block’s colours, centering banner ads, styling a View, floating article images, or changing the comment layout for a certain content type.

OpenCraft: Reverse-translating a string back into English in Drupal

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:36:53 +0000

By:

Karim Ratib

While writing the security component for Views Bulk Operations, I needed to create a permission for the execution of each action declared in the system. This would allow the admin to decide which user groups would be able to execute which actions.Read more

Dries Buytaert: Hundred million spam attempts blocked

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:21:16 +0000

At Mollom, our spam-filtering startup targeted toward eliminating comment and post spam, we've just reached two important milestones: we blocked our 100,000,000th spam message, and we're now actively protecting over 10,000 websites.

It was only about three months ago that we celebrated our 50 million message milestone, and two months before that we reached twenty-five million. These milestones are coming fast now. Will we double again in the next three months? Only time will tell.

In fact, these statistics are for our public servers only, and don't include message processing on private servers we operate on behalf of our larger clients. Mollom filters about an additional 4 million messages each day for Netlog, for instance.

deciphered.net - Drupal development: HOWTO: Custom paths per taxonomy term with FileField Paths and Custom Tokens.

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:16:59 +0000

Browsing through the Drupal.org support forums the other day, I came across an interesting support request, something that I just had to see if I could solve, maybe a niche issue, but something that really appealed to me.

The user was wanting to know if they could have files uploaded to specific directories based on the taxonomy term chosen, but not specifically in the same structure of the taxonomy tree or with the values of the taxonomy terms.

For example:

Term 'A' uploads files to directory 'X'.
Term 'B' uploads files to directory 'X/Y'.
Term 'C' uploads files to directory 'G/X'.
Term 'D' uploads files to directory 'P'.

As my experience with Drupal has shown, nothing is impossible, everything is achievable. And I knew with a little elbow grease this should be achievable with my FileField Paths module.

Angie Byron: Video/Slides from Women in Open Source talk at Open Web Vancouver 09

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:26:21 +0000

With huge thanks to Sarah Cruise from dyke it, here's the video and slides for the Women in Open Source talk at Open Web Vancouver 2009 a month or so ago.

Slides (16MB PDF)