Drupal Blogs, Pictures, and more on WordPress: 3 Reasons to Support Drupal CMS as your Web Development Technology!
Everywhere there is a rat race for everything! In this competition if you are not the one who wants to change with time then, apparently the business world is not for you. Something similar can be observed in the field of IT, where every day something new is getting invented and people are adapting themselves according to it.
While considering the website development services, people are getting inclined towards CMS slowly and steadily. The only reason is, CMS makes the website more alluring and appealing, which in turn drags the viewer’s attention in the online market. But the question arises when you need to select the technology that you want for the designing of the website! Which one to choose? Joomla, Drupal or PHP?
Evidence says Drupal is the better one as it meets certain aspects that are required for a good website design. The aspects that Drupal CMS offers are:
Linnovate: First Drupal site in the Israeli goverment
We're very proud to see the first fruit of several months of work and several year of building the Drupal enterprise eco-system in Israel.
The first site shipped, http://shituf.gov.il is a site which exposes the latest rules and discussions from the government to the public.
That way legislators get a very short feedback loop on the current activity and the public gets to state it's opinion and vote up or down on the stream of new rules and political activity.
This "political digg" is the first time in Israel where official governmental activity is letting the public create content in the website and the first time Drupal and it's underlaying open stack is used in official governmental hosting.
The site is seeing great engagement (for instance a rule about monitoring the state of israeli education had 544 votes, divided almost equally and hundreds of comments.
Shlomi Tsadok, Our reprasentitve in the government has led this project and we are showing day after day the flexability, ROI, lower TCO and general awesomeness which is Drupal.
YADGSCTL - Yet Another Drupal Govermental Site Comes To Life (I'm not sure about the popularity of the acronym, but Drupal is gaining popularity in Enterprise Israel and that what counts :) ).
World Domination is now.
Drupal Blogs, Pictures, and more on WordPress: Article: Alert: What's Coming for Open Source CMS in August 2010
Jimmy Berry: Drush, Drush Make, other Drupal packages, and development setup for openSUSE
I have recently added drush and drush make packages to my openSUSE repository. For more information or to report bugs on the packages please visit their respective project pages: drush and drush_make.
To install the packages you can use the one-click installers provided by the build service or manually add my repository and install the packages as shown bellow.
Drupal Connect: A Developer’s Guide to What’s New for Drupal 7
There are approximately 38 critical issues that need to be resolved before Drupal 7 beta gets released. For more on these beta blocker issues check out: Drupal Core Improvements.
With this post I want to encourage you to install Drupal 7 alpha, test it out, and ultimately help to fix the critical issues and speed up the beta release.
You'll need a localhost LAMP or XAMPP environment to follow along with the examples here. If you don't have one set up I recommend using the Acquia Stack Drupal Installer.
Once your testing environment is configured, download Drupal 7.
Installing D7
Save the installer to your localhost Drupal /sites folder and extract it. Set up your MySQL database using your preferred method. Note to developers: D7's new database abstraction layer will theoretically support multiple database types including SQLite, PostgreSQL, MSSQL and Oracle. So if you are running Oracle you may be able to use D7.
Drupal Blogs, Pictures, and more on WordPress: the pitter-patter of little feet
I joined the NWESD team in November of 2009, and it seems like a strange coincidence that nine months later we are poised to start a huge online environment shift. In the next couple weeks the project begins: building a new and improved NWESD website, flanked by a cluster of online platforms that do everything from social networking to providing a library of resources related to the cooperatives and programs we offer. From a communications standpoint, our lives will be forever changed.
I have to admit that this project has been a daunting one to conceptualize. It started out with a simple idea – lets freshen up the website. It sounded innocent enough and I estimated just a few short months of work to get everything tucked in. Easy!
agileapproach.com: Using a settings page to change the number of results in a view
Localize.drupal.org: New suggestion export and deeplinking features on localize.drupal.org
We've launched the Drupal.org redesign theme on localize.drupal.org about six weeks ago, and the reception was great. While other subsites like api.drupal.org are also in the process to migrate to this theme, we could pioneer some fixes and get them into production. We keep tweaking the theme on this site and get fixes in based on your feedback.
Some great feature additions landed since the last update. The most requested new feature is that you can now export all outstanding suggestions with translations. In case of multiple outstanding suggestions for any one string, the suggestions will be in comments. In case of single suggestions, the export uses Gettext's fuzzy facility and just marks the string as "not ready". Look for this option on the language export screen.
Lullabot: Drupal Voices 140: Nathaniel Catchpole on Drupal 7 performance improvements
Nathaniel Catchpole (aka catch) talks about some of the performance-related patches that he has been focusing on for Drupal 7. When Dries gave his State of Drupal keynote address in DrupalCon San Francisco, he presented the Top 20 Drupal 7 core patch contributors and catch was at the top of the list with over 337 patches that he was involved with by that point. He notes that a lot of his patches were a series of smaller performance-related patches that he discovered by using profiling tools such as XHProf and XDebug. He talks about some of the performance changes that got into Drupal 7, as well as how he's been able to work on Drupal 7 core through his job at Examiner.com.
Dries Buytaert: Capgemini promoting and using Drupal
This year in my keynote at DrupalCon San Francisco, I mentioned that the elephants are coming. Well, earlier this week Capgemini, one of the world's foremost consulting providers with 95,000 employees, announced a new service, Capgemini Immediate. I'm pleased to say that they're using Drupal as a foundational technology for their new Immediate platform.
Capgemini Immediate is an offering which helps organizations to build and run on-line services. It consists of a number of preferred technologies (i.e., Drupal, MySQL, Salesforce, Lithium, etc.), best practices, and an ecosystem of preferred partners of which Acquia is part.
Ronald Ashri: Drupal has some (entity) relationship issues
With entities Drupal took a huge step forward in providing conceptual clarity in how it deals with things like users, comments, taxonomy terms and nodes.
I believe there is one more step to take to bring even more clarity that will hopefully be possible in Drupal 8. This is the content of my Core Developer Summit lightning talk- hopefully it is not completely off the mark.
With entities Drupal took a huge step forward in providing conceptual clarity in how it deals with things like users, comments, taxonomy terms and nodes.
I believe there is one more step to take to bring even more clarity that will hopefully be possible in Drupal 8 (or 9!). This is the content of my Core Developer Summit lightning talk- hopefully it is not completely off the mark.
It goes something like this:
