Jeff:
Why is Drupal important to the the Federal government? That is the main topic I will cover in a 3 part guest blog series on GovFresh. GovFresh works to inspire government-citizen collaboration and build a more engaged democracy. It features Gov 2.0, open gov news, guides, TV, tech, people and official U.S. government feeds, all in one place.
The first post Five government sites using Drupal effectively for open government initiatives provides some high profile examples of who is using Drupal effectively in government and why Drupal is a great fit for what these sites are trying to achieve.
My second post will focus on the unique aspects of providing web content management for government that are relevant for Drupal (i.e. what can Drupal learn from Government?) And my final post will provide ideas and predictions for the future of Drupal within the Federal government.
Posted 02/04/2010 - 12:36
Andrew :
Don't Repeat Yourself, or DRY, is a software development principle aimed at speeding development efforts and reducing repetition in code bases. The great part about DRY is that in addition to getting work done quicker, it makes maintaining code much easier: if blocks of code that perform like actions across a site, or across multiple sites, is in fact the same code, making changes and adding features in one place results in those changes being quickly made in all places. Even better? Drupal makes enforcing DRY concepts incredibly easy in many different ways.
Posted 12/31/2009 - 12:35
Brad :
Sometimes you might need some extra help getting views to sort correctly. This is especially the case when sorting on a column that might include NULL values, or when your criteria for how results should sort is complex. Instead of implementing template logic to correct the result sorting, you can use hook_views_query_alter to modify the sort criteria in the query itself.
Posted 11/24/2009 - 11:05
Tobby :
Sometimes, the node data that you want is not exposed to Views in the way that you want. Computed Field is a module that, with a little bit of raw PHP code, can help you bridge those gaps.
Posted 11/19/2009 - 11:58
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Irakli:
There has been increasing amount of discussion and debate about Smallcore initiative in the Drupal community. Smallcore's purpose is to separate Drupal's CMS capabilities from the core framework APIs and enhance Drupal's characteristics as a universal web-development framework. The Smallcore movement mostly benefits the development of packaged Drupal distributions - a hot topic in the Drupal community, these days.
Phase2 Technology is the author and maintainer of two popular Drupal-based distributions: OpenPublish and Tattler (app). We also have worked on numerous high-profile Drupal-powered websites. In this blog post we try to digest the two perspectives and offer some of our ideas regarding Smallcore and Drupal's future, in general.
Posted 11/04/2009 - 15:00
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Jeff:
Today we are releasing our first publicly available open source version of Tattler on Drupal.org. Tattler is a way to monitor topics you are interested in and learn who is talking about them, where, when and how.
Tattler might be used by a researcher, journalist, blogger, technology analyst, or PR specialist or anyone looking for a better way to research on the web. In other words, Tattler is for those that don't just listen to, but help shape the public policy debate - either with coverage or research. So what is unique about Tattler?
Posted 10/12/2009 - 23:19
Andrew :
Drupal blocks bumming you out lately? Tired of looking at a huge list of blocks, just trying, in vain, to organize your site's components?
Posted 10/12/2009 - 16:16
Samantha:
When designing websites there are a few online tools that I regularly utilize. Thinking back on my growth as a designer, its hard to imagine what it was like before these tools were lurking in my web design toolkit. From typography and color to layout and design patterns, these tools help me cut down on time during the design process.
Posted 10/12/2009 - 14:23
Dave:
The built-in content list provided by Drupal does a few basic things well, allowing you to filter by taxonomy term, status, and node type. However, in cases where you have a large volume of content or a lot of custom CCK fields, this doesn't quite cut it. With the Content Management Filter module, the possibilities are endless.
Posted 09/17/2009 - 15:04
Kelly:
Getting your images to appear in search engine image searches may be easier than you think.
Posted 09/08/2009 - 21:10
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