drupal.org aggregatordrupal.org - aggregated feeds in category Planet DrupalTom Geller: Reaching for the middle: Hosted Drupal or Google Sites- September 16, 2008 A comment in response to Jim Butz' blog post ("Drupal and Startups: Is there a Connection") mentions Google Sites, an online system that allows people to easily build Web sites with such "Web 2.0" features as discussion boards and event calendars. Then a comment in Acquia VP Jeff Whatcott's blog said that "Google Labs is cooking up their own CMS support division". Such online "build-your-own-site" systems have always been severely limited when compared to Drupal; on the other hand, Drupals...http://tomgeller.com/content/reaching-middle-drupal-or-google-sites Wim Mostrey: Volvo using the Wordpress brand- September 16, 2008 I was browsing through some online newspapers when I saw the Wordpress logo flashing by on one of the advertisements. I wondered if Wordpress was starting some pay-for service when I noticed it was actually a commercial for Volvo to launch their new campaign: Volvo Comfort Days. It's really interesting how they use the crme de la web 2.0 to push the advertisements. More importantly, they're using the Wordpress logo as a means to make clear they also have a blog. I expect the average internet...http://mostrey.be/volvo-using-wordpress-brand Drupal Easy: Import Hundreds of Taxonomy Terms using AWK- September 16, 2008 Today's challenge: your editors just handed you almost 200 taxonomy terms to add to the site, and you don't have the time or inclination to hit the taxonomynaddterm page for the next 2 hours or so... AWK to the rescue! Doing a simple CSV export of the term_data and term_hierarchy tables, you've got a pretty simple structure: term_datatid,vid,name,description,weightterm_hierarchytid,parentWhat you'll ultimately generate here is a file that stores everything you need to know about importing these.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DrupalEasy/~3/394462024/import-hundreds-taxonomy-terms-usin... Palantir: Open Source, Open Design- September 16, 2008 Ive been following the Drupal.org redesign with great interest, and not just because of Tiffanys involvement coordinating the project with the Drupal Association and designer Mark Boulton. To me, its fascinating because its unlike any Web design project that Ive been involved with in my fourteen years in the industry. read morehttp://www.palantir.net/blog/open-source-open-design Alexis Bellido: Mark Boulton and the redesign of Drupal.org- September 16, 2008 Mark Boulton is working on the redesign of Drupal.org, that's great news. I've been following Mark's work for many years and I really enjoy his writing, his series about grids and typography are fantastic pieces. But what's even better is that Mark and his team have decided to open their design process, a very brave and risky move, and they've called it design by community. I don't know if this will work or not but in any case I'm sure we will all learn a lot from it.http://www.ventanazul.com/webzine/articles/design-by-community Sacha Chua: Drupal and Drush: Updating the database from the command-line- September 16, 2008 So now that we&039;re doing all our configuration changes in source code, it makes sense to automate database updates as much as I can. Here&039;s something I&039;ve added to drush_tools so that I can run all the schema changes from the command-line:read morehttp://sachachua.com/wp/2008/09/16/drupal-and-drush-updating-the-database-from-the-command... Do it With Drupal: 1st Early Bird Registration Extended Until Friday- September 16, 2008 With the recent announcement on drupal.org and my appearance on the FLOSS Weekly podcast, we've had a recent surge of traffic and registrations for the Do It With Drupal event. In order to allow these new people a few days to take advantage of the first early-bird discount, we've decided to extend this discount until Friday (September 19th). Register on Friday before midnight GMT (8pm Eastern 5pm Pacific) to get the $895 rate for the 3-day event. Registration includes admission to all...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DoItWithDrupal/~3/394246834/early-bird-extended Sacha Chua: Drupal: Deploying two branches to three systems- September 16, 2008 To keep track of the bugfixes we&039;ll need to make for our next release, I&039;ve created a Subversion branch called branchesrelease-1. Development of new features will continue on trunk, but we&039;ll merge in the bugfixes from release-1 every so often. There are three environments we deploy to: Local Developers should be able to easily test both versions on their local machines. QA server We should be able to deploy both versions to a publicly-accessible QA server for acceptance...http://sachachua.com/wp/2008/09/16/drupal-deploying-two-branches-to-three-systems/ John Forsythe: Drupal's Biggest Challenge- September 16, 2008 Mark Boulton just discovered first hand the single biggest challenge facing the Drupal community today: Fear of change. Mark: "Hey community, we're going to change everything... starting with this! What do you think" Community: "AAAAAH!! NO! You can't do that!" When a large group of people are given a platform to express their feelings on whether "highly visible feature XYZ" should be changed, you will always find more than enough highly vocal individuals willing to say "no", and give you a...http://blamcast.net/articles/drupals-biggest-challenge Wim Mostrey: Uninstall a module before deleting it- September 16, 2008 I regularly come across a client's Drupal database and see that it's lingered with left-over tables and settings. These tables are often from modules that were installed during previous Drupal versions or that were ditched altogether. Here's a good tip: uninstall a module before deleting it. Most modules come with an uninstall function that cleans up any used tables and variables, keeping your database nice and tidy. Do note that you still need the module on your server to be able to uninstall..http://mostrey.be/uninstall-module-deleting-it |