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Acquia Search looks cool , Automattic should do something similar for WordPress.

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Views Live Filters automatically applies exposed filters as soon as they are changed, without the user having to click Apply. read more

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This module adds two blocks: Customers who ordered this product also ordered Recommended for you The "Recommended for you" block provide personalized products recommendations based on a user's purchasing history. If a user hasn't made any orders, it displays nothing. In that case, you might consider using the Browsing History Recommender to make recommendations based on users viewing history. This module requires Recommender API at http://drupal.org/project/recommender. Please download the latest version. Contributed as part of my Google Summer of Code'09 project

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I have a Drupal 6.0 website, wich is modified to fit our needs. The shell of the website is done, but we do search for a skilled graphic designer to change and complete the project. We already have a logo. But we want help with the rest. Colors, fonts, graphic design etc. everything that need to be changed/modified to make it ready for launch. * When you bid, post at least 5 recent design that you have created. * More project will be given in the future to good dev. with at least 2 x

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We learned this lesson several months ago in our learning community for the Celebrate Oklahoma Voices project , but I had it reinforced again today on the Storychasers site . When you have an online learning community, a best-practice to avoid spammers is to moderate all new members. This can be a hassle, but given the persistence of spammers in seeking to join learning communities so they can post garbage there, it really is essential. As spam messages go, this one wasn’t horrific since i

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LightGreen Theme is a light-weight, CSS-based, tableless template, with 3 columns. It is very good theme for starting a big website Features Fixed width with 3 collapsibles columns columns Light-weight and fast loading validate Strict XHTML Tested in IE 6, IE 7, Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Safari 3.1, Operta 9.5, Chrome

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With iTweak Upload module you can tweak file upload form: Beautify and improve the upload form for file attachments created by core upload.module. Beautify and improve the upload form for file attachments created by comment_upload.module. Independent of theme - works with any theme that does not already customize file uploads. read more

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This module adds two blocks: Users who browsed this node also browsed Recommended for you To make the recommendations, the module uses the {history} table that keeps track of 30 days of users' node browsing history. Also, when you enable the "boost comments" option, the module then takes users' commenting history as browsing history as well. The "Recommended for you" block provide personalized node recommendations based on a user's node browsing history. The basic idea is that, for example, user A browsed node X, Y, where users who browsed X, Y also browsed W, V; then "Recommended for you" would display W, V for A. This module requires Recommender API at http://drupal.org/project/recommender, which provides the core matrix computation functions. The recommendation quality/accuracy are the job of Recommender API. After install/enable/setup, please go to admin/settings/recommender to generate the recommendations offline.

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Academic research management module. Development sponsored by Wavelength Technology and the Synapse Project.

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We can create Flickr photo blocks with the excellent Flickr module. We can create groups with the excellent Organic Groups module. This module connects these two modules and provides group specific Flickr photo blocks. Currently the photo block carries the group admin's recent photos. Number of photos and photo sizes are configurable from the block configuration page. Development sponsored by Small Ball USA.

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I’ve been working with the Drupal community on design projects for coming up to 12 months now - a splash in the ocean compared to many in the Drupal community but long enough to get a feel for how things work. The ‘paid’ time I have left on the d7ux project is almost run out and I’m left feeling frustrated - not just by the work that I’d like to be able to continue to do on the Drupal 7 User Experience, but also by the great potential for building a critical mass of great designers and UX people in the Drupal community and the different types of activities that could spur this on, and the impact this could have on Drupal adoption and sustainability as an Open Source software project. So much opportunity, so little resource. Despite the fact that I think there are probably a contingent within the Drupal community who are hoping that Mark & I are just going to go away once we stop getting paid for d7ux, the fact is that this is unlikely to happen any time soon. For various reasons and in various ways, I think we’re both kind of hooked on Drupal, or at least it’s amazing community.read more

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This module allows to embeds SPARCool (http://sparcool.net) query results in your Drupal nodes, hence using Linked Data to enrich your nodes (e.g. include a DBPedia abstract or pictures from a FOAF profile)

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This module provides a block with current conditions and 2 days forecasts using the API from http://weather.yahoo.com Development sponsored by Alquimia Proyectos Digitales. Original development by Jacinto Capote Code review and improvements by Pedro Lozano

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DesignBump a popular social voting site for design related topics have just launched a great new modern looking design of their own. The new design which we think looks fantastic very much improves on previous versions and gives a cool modern look to the site. DesignBump is a site we at Social CMS Buzz have been [...]

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ThemeKey Properties adds additional properties to ThemeKey module. ThemeKey itself provides an infrastructure to switch drupal themes by rules which might use such properties. Additional Properties currently provided by "ThemeKey Properties": system:query_param system:query_string system:cookie system:server_ip system:server_port system:server_name system:https system:remote_ip system:referer system:user_agent Related Projects ThemeKey Sponsors Cocomore AG

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Maarten Verbaarschot volunteered to take on a Microproject (thanks Maarten!) and for the past few weeks he has been working on interface design for a Media Library for Drupal. There is a great discussion going on in the Drupal.org issue queue that you might want to take a look at. Maarten is currently working on the third iteration of these wireframes but he’d really love it if you can take a look and give him some feedback - anyone who has ever added an image to a web page should be able to have a say on this interface, so don’t hold back! read more

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I have been using FrontPage SlideShow from JoomlaWorks on a number of sites, and would recommend it as a good CSS/PHP route to building a featured slide section that links to promoted content, articles, blog posts, groups, etc. One problem is that it is not free, the cost is around $35 for a license to use it on 5 to 10 domains. A second problem is highlighted by the example of releasing an installation profile for Drupal. We can release all of the code under GPL for the project except for FPSS. So, I began working on a conversion of our FPSS slides into Views Slideshow views.read more

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First of all, I’d like to say hello fellow drupalers! This is my first post here, (and also my first ever blog post!) since Greg opened up drupaler.co.uk as a collaborative blog for Drupal developers. read more

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One of our little helpers (Daniel Harris) launched a wiki page to get more detailed info on what you would actually like to eat during the conference itself. Please have a look and add your wishes. Of course, it has to be something that a great deal of people would eat too. By doing this, we can then do our very best to be able to offer the most of your wishes possible during the conference, so you like what you see and eat.

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Views Display Tabs exposes displays in views as tabs, making it possible to switch displays for a view using AJAX. This makes it possible make a view even more useful as all overridable settings for a view can be stored in a display. This means that sorting, among many other settings a display can have, can now be exposed to the user through multiple displays with different settings. This module and Views Embed are a good match! This module is still experimental and a development version will be committed shortly. Development of Views Displays Tabs was sponsored by SF Bio and NodeOne.

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First of all a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who has helped us so far with preparing, organizing and spreading the word about DrupalCon Paris 2009, all over Europe and even internationally. This is your event! You are the community. You are the ones who represent Drupal and we want to have you, the representatives, join us in Paris. So we need your help to spread the word even “louder” and make the DrupalCon even more Drupalicious, for you. Because: you, the community, are the core! you, the community, make the decisions you, the community, decide where Drupal is going. Here some carrots, that will lead your way to Paris in September:

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The standard node reference field allows you to add a link from one content item to another. You add the reference to another existing node when you create a node with a nodereference field. The node being referenced must exist in order for this to work. This module lets you reference a non-existent node using an enhanced autocomplete text field widget. The referenced node is created when the validation fails to find an existing node. read more

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Wilderness is a understated theme with a neutral colour palette, two column layout. Features Support for logo, primary links, mission, shortcut icon and user pictures Fluid width layout Drop-down primary links menu Mostly cross-browser compatible Two column layout Tested in Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Safari 3.2 & Chrome. Known issues: Does not work in Internet Explorer properly yet Needs a code cleanup Development version only will be posted until the above issues (and any others) are fixed. Installation - Primary links In order to make Primary links show up, go to admin/build/block and assign the 'Primary links' block to the 'Menu' region. About the developers This project is maintained by Agileware Pty Ltd, http://www.agileware.net/content/drupal. We have a great deal of experience in both Drupal module development and design. Please feel free to contact us to discuss your requirements. We have the right solution for every budget.

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Sea Breeze is a Drupal theme suitable for a professional services company or corporate website. Features: Support for site name, slogan, primary links, mission, shortcut icon and user pictures Fixed width layout Drop-down primary links menu Cross browser compatible Funky drop-down search widget 2 column layout with two additional top regions Tested in IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Safari 3.2 & Chrome About the developers This project is maintained by Agileware Pty Ltd, http://www.agileware.net/content/drupal. We have a great deal of experience in both Drupal module development and design. Please feel free to contact us to discuss your requirements. We have the right solution for every budget.

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The Energetic Drupal theme features a clean, light layout with a blue and orange colour scheme. Features: Support for logo, primary links, mission, shortcut icon and user pictures Fixed width layout Drop-down primary links menu Supports both 2 column and 3 column layout Cross browser compatible Tested in IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Safari 3.2 & Chrome Theme initially created with Artisteer. Enhanced and cleaned up by Agileware. Installation - Primary links In order to make Primary links show up, go to admin/build/block and assign the 'Primary links' block to the 'Menu' region. About the developers This project is maintained by Agileware Pty Ltd, http://www.agileware.net/content/drupal. We have a great deal of experience in both Drupal module development and design. Please feel free to contact us to discuss your requirements. We have the right solution for every budget.

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A classic theme for collaboration websites. Small footprint with focus on content. Features: Support for site name, slogan, primary links, mission, shortcut icon and user pictures Fluid width layout Drop-down primary links menu Cross browser compatible Tested in IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Safari 3.2 & Chrome Theme initially created with Artisteer. Enhanced and cleaned up by Agileware. Installation - Primary links In order to make Primary links show up, go to admin/build/block and assign the 'Primary links' block to the 'Menu' region. About the developers This project is maintained by Agileware Pty Ltd, http://www.agileware.net/content/drupal. We have a great deal of experience in both Drupal module development and design. Please feel free to contact us to discuss your requirements. We have the right solution for every budget.

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FileField Paths has just hit version 1.3. The biggest change in this latest version is an improved modular system allowing for better integration options, demonstrated with support for two new modules, the Image module and the Comment Upload module. Other changes include improved support for the ImageField Crop module, Dutch and Danish translations and various bug fixes. read more

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At the core of all the hype around "social networking," and "social media," is the fact that "social" websites allow members of a website to connect with each and develop relationships without needing the administrators or content editors to mediate these connections. This from the "build and they'll come," school of design and strategy. In any case, even though Drupal is a fundamentally social platform, there is no user-to-user relationship support in the core of Drupal.Read More >>>

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The weekend of June 27th and 28th saw over 200 Drupalers, including myself, flock to Denver for the annual DrupalCamp Colorado. Trellon was proud to sponsor the event. The fact that number of attendees doubled since last year shows the growth and momentum surrounding Drupal. This year, the event was combined with an Ubercamp- a gathering of Ubercart developers and enthusiasts.Read More >>>

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I recently came across a discussion on LinkedIn regarding the longevity of Drupal. Alex, who posted the question mentioned about how the Post Nuke CMS forked into Zikula, which has lost a lot of its past popularity. We can see how the popularity shifted back in 2005 with Drupal leading the way.

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It will show your drupal menu as jQuery UI accordion menu. This module is dependent with jQuery UI module.

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Colorize your Devavrata FREE Version with 002 Dev Skin All Garland colors applicable plus more

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Allows freeform text sections to be edited individually, like MediaWiki / Wikipedia. When a node is being viewed as a page by a user with permission to edit the node, this module adds [edit] links floated to the right of all headings in the body (see image). Clicking on an [edit] link goes to a page where the content from that heading to the next same-level-or-higher heading can be edited in isolation. The creation of node revisions is supported. Using this module in conjuction with the Diff module will replicate much of Wikipedia's functionality. read more

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Drupalcamp Colorado 2009 has come and gone. The event garnered over 200 participants - at least half of which came from out of State. Over 40 sessions (if you include BOFs and the opening and closing sessions) occurred over the two days ranging from pure business to the highly technical. Ubercart was heavily presented with Ubercamp partnering with Drupalcamp. The camp was followed by a media sprint. pingVision presented in quite a few sessions:read more

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Vivek Kundra, the CIO of the United States, unveiled the new IT spending dashboards at usaspending.gov earlier this week. Tim O'Reilly has all the details in his blog post titled Radical transparency: the new federal IT dashboard. In short, the dashboards are designed to help CIOs of individual government agencies get a handle on the effectiveness of government IT spending. The site was built with Drupal. This is a fundamental change in the way government is going to be run, and it is great to see Drupal play a small role in that. Great stuff!

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Add '#multicolumn' property to the form element checkboxes and radios to make checkboxes and radios display in columns. Usage In the definition of form element checkboxes/radios, add the '#multicolumn' property: <?php$form['my_checkboxes'] = array( '#type' => 'checkboxes', '#multicolumn' => array('width' => 3),   .   .   .);$form['my_radios'] = array( '#type' => 'radios', '#multicolumn' => array('row-major' => TRUE),   .   .   .);?> If the 'row-major' parameter is set, then the checkboxes/radios are layout across and the number of columns depend on the container width. If the 'row-major' parameter is not set, then the 'width' parameter is required and the checkboxes/radios are displayed down first, then across column by column. The width parameter specifies the number of columns to break the checkboxes/radios into. The 'minimum height' optional parameter can be specified to keep column from looking "short/flat" by using fewer columns when necessary to keep column height to the specified minimum. Note: the check all/uncheck all in the screen shot is from the checkall module. See README.txt on how to override css to adjust different column width.

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tContact allows you to make a fully translated site-wide contact form on multilingual sites. Categories can be set to display only in a specific language, or they can be language neutral. read more

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When this module is enabled, no two views on the same page will display the same nodes. These nodes are served up on a first come first serve basis (so the first view called will lock off subsequent views from selecting nodes in the results of the first and so forth). The performance implications of this module have not been fully explored so be cautious when using in production environments.

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Your workspace is your castle eh? Just thought I’d share my workspace with you, mind you this is just the Summer office, but it ain’t half bad!

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JVIS USA LLC is an international supplier for automotive components and tooling with facilities in 6 countries and customers all over the world. Their website helps them introduce their products to auto makers. Going multilingual When JVIS commissioned their website, they requested just a few static pages. It was built as a simple static HTML site (no CMS) and in English. Very soon after launching their new site JVIS decided to localize to Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian and Spanish. These are the languages spoken by their larger clients. At that point Jason Marshall contacted us about translating JVIS' website. It was already built (as a collection of 23 HTML files), ready to be translated. Our translation service would have produced another 92 static HTML files which JVIS would have uploaded to their server. It was clear that JVIS was going to be adding new content on a regular basis and maintaining it all in several languages without using a content management system would have been a very unwelcome task. The likely possibility of turning a client from being happy to frustrated, due to this manual content management, concerned us very much. We suggested to Jason Marshall, the web designer who built JVIS website, to first migrate it all to a CMS and only then begin the translation process. The first choice was Drupal, given its powerful multilingual capabilities. Maintaining a multilingual Drupal site would be much simpler, not just for us, but mostly for the client. From the client's point of view, only English texts would need to be managed. Drupal would automatically handle everything else. read more

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I've just released a new module (fanfare) which seems to work pretty well. I have a couple of silly bug fixes to put up tonight (knew I should've called it "beta") but other than that it works great. It's called Node Reference Variables: http://drupal.org/project/nodereference_variables All it does is present a load of stuff (depending on other contrib modules installed and some admin options) via the hook_preprocess_node() preprocess hook for themers to use to do cool theming stuff with Node Reference CCK fields. Main feature I'm using is the jQuery UI tabs it provides. read more

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A refreshing theme that aims the quick deploy in any browser with small foot-print but at the same time without sacrificing good design quality. Let me know if it is working. If you have any question, please subscribe here Thank you. :-) 1.You can change "Site Name" and "Slogan". 2.Support administrator theme. 3.Totally dynamic with two columns (if you need or want any change please let me know, I can help ). 4.Support for any module. 5.Small file that aim the quick deploy in any browser. 6.You can change the footer, but please leave the link to my website. 7.The code: Valid CSS/XHTML, no nested table mess, and a reasonably good design. 8.Support for Java (Jquery). 9.1000 pixels wide. 10.and the last: remember that every time that you change your theme you have to, either sacrifice something or work around of what you got before, but don't worry I'm here to help, if you need me. Thank you.

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After some feedback from possible participants, we have a new date for our D7 file system, images and media sprint. The sprint will now run on Sunday-Monday July 26-27 at the Zivtech offices in Philadelphia. Also, Aaron Winborn will be joining drewish (a.k.a. Andrew Morton) and some Zivtech hackers for the sprint. Anyone else looking for an excuse to visit Philadelphia and hack on core is most welcome.read more

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Kat Bailey posted a very kind review of my Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery book. From the review: The book aims to get people with little to no knowledge of Drupal or JavaScript up to speed with creating really awesome functionality, really fast. In fact, its title almost belies the breadth of its scope: although the use of jQuery in Drupal 6 is the one topic that it covers exhaustively, it doesn't skip over any of the basic tools or concepts required to get going with Drupal, and so it would work pretty well as a first Drupal book for any aspiring front-end Drupaler. It covers everything from the ultra-utra-basic ("what is CSS?", "what is a Drupal block?") to Drupal JavaScript Behaviors (and everything else in drupal.js), to JavaScript Theming, to AJAX, to building modules with AJAX functionality, to jQuery syntax, effects, and even writing jQuery plugins! read more

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Ever wanted to show your Drupal contact form at every page using a Block? You can now by using the Contact form blocks module.

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Stephanie Pakrul and Chris Fassnacht from Top Notch Themes discussed Return on Investment and Ubercart. These are my notes from the presentation. I also took video that is broken up into four pieces at the end of this post. I was at the back of the room, so the sound is a little quiet. Hopefully it is still helpful. They started out by talking about the strongest feature of Ubercart is its automatic integration with Drupal. That makes things relatively easy for the developer. 75% of users make a judgement about your company based on the design of a site. Business metrics can improve drastically with a good design. Quite simply good design can improve your conversion rate and improving you conversion rate is the investment that keeps on giving. read more

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The RDF SPARQL Endpoint module indexes the RDF data publicly available on a Drupal site into an ARC2 RDF store. It also provides a SPARQL endpoint via the ARC2 SPARQL interface. Because it relies on the ARC2 library, this module requires MySQL and will not work on other databases. The SPARQL module should be used instead if another database support is required. RDF SPARQL Endpoint requires the modules: * RDF - http://drupal.org/project/rdf (with the ARC2 library installed) * (recommended) RDF CCK - http://drupal.org/project/rdfcck You need to make sure the RDF data is publicly available at node/*/rdf (check the permission 'access RDF data' for anonymous user). Why another SPARQL module? The original SPARQL module intends to work in pair with the RDF module for Drupal, and will support any database backend. However its SPARQL support is not as mature as the SPARQL support of the ARC2 library. The downside of ARC2 is that it is MySQL specific (for now at least).

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Coworks is currently building a module to register and login on a Drupal environment with your eID card. We have still some hard developing work to do, so there is no release yet. We expect a dev release coming up in the next two weeks. You can become more information on dieter@coworks.be.

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Because of a bug in the Drupal 7 PostgreSQL chain (either in PDO or the database) BIGINT handling is not fixed in today's Drupal 6 release. And you wonder why I hate that database.

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There has been some discussion in recent days regarding Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs), Drupal, and why the latter doesn't use the former. There are, actually, many reasons for that, and for why Drupal doesn't do more with the Active Record pattern. Rather than tuck such discussion away in an issue queue, I figured it better to document a bit more widely. read more

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A little over a year ago, as we were putting the finishing touches on the Lullabot Learning Series, we needed a quick-and-easy way to sell our video downloads and DVDs. We took a look at several of the options out there and Matt ended up stumbling across Shopify, who's tag-line is "E-commerce made easy". Their solution is fully hosted and they claim "setup within minutes". And sure enough, within mere minutes Matt had set up a working site. Within a few hours, it had a Lullabot logo and mostly worked the way we wanted. It took us another day or two to wire it up to our shipping warehouse, and to Fetch, the company which we used for our digital downloads. Overall, it was a quick-and-painless solution.read more

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When it comes to search, Drupal seems to do OK by itself. However, there are a number of supporting modules which will make your Drupal’s default search even better. These include Porter-Stemmer (english only), Search 404, Search by Page, Similar By Terms and many others. If you’re seekign to help an advanced user out, then modules like Search config can help with that. But what about the user who won’t dare go into the hidden area of ‘Advanced Search’? This is where the power is - right? It sure is. This is where you tell Drupal what content types and categories you want to limit the search to. This is where a user, simply looking for a job on your site, which lists information about jobs, news, blogs and other items, can focus their results. So, why don’t you stop expecting the user to figure this out, and just make it happen for them! That’s what this video is all about. Using the default Drupal search box and forcing it to focus on specific content types or categories. You control what Drupal searches for and you control where it shows up!read more

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Have you ever needed to remove a JS or CSS file in certain conditions such as a custom themed page? In Drupal 6 that has become a whole lot easier.read more

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This module provides support to assign a specific domain for a group.

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The Drupal Placemaker utilises Yahoo!'s Placemaker API to provide geo-enrichment functionality for your content. Geo-enrichment? There's a rich vein of location data buried within your content. You're sure to find references to towns, cities, regions and countries scattered about your node's body fields. The Placemaker module acts as a bridge between your content and Yahoo! Placemaker to parse, extract and index references to the location information within your unstructured data. Why? Once your content has been geo-enriched, with help from Yahoo!'s Geoplanet API and a faceted search engine such as Apache Solr, we can use spatial relationships in a similar way to Drupal's taxonomies to group content on the basis of the geographical relationships identified within content.

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This module exposes CCK Node Reference fields in a variety of ways using the Drupal 6.x hook_preprocess_node() hook to populate variables that are then available to themers in node.tpl.php. Inline documentation: <?php/** * Implementation of hook_preprocess_node(). * * Adds the fully loaded node object for each referenced Node * Reference node attached to the parent node, E.g. if you * have a Node Reference field called field_foo and it has * three values, the loaded nodes will be accessible using: * * print_r($field_foo[0]['node']); * print_r($field_foo[1]['node']); * print_r($field_foo[2]['node']); * * Also adds the rendered mark-up for the node, if requested: * * print_r($field_foo[0]['node_rendered']); * print_r($field_foo[1]['node_rendered']); * print_r($field_foo[2]['node_rendered']); * * Finally, adds jQuery tabs for each Node Reference field * value, rendered and ready to use in this variable: * * $nodereference_tabs * * Note, all options can be disabled at: * admin/content/nodereference_variables */?> This project is being developed by Greg Harvey: http://www.drupaler.co.uk And sponsored by CMS Professionals: http://www.cmspros.co.uk

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We’ve talked through the ’strategy’ behind the proposed D7UX Information Architecture (IA), now let’s take a look at it in detail. What goes where. Let’s go through each major section in turn: Content The ‘Find Content’ page, showing a searchable, sortable, filterable list of all the content on your site is the ‘landing page’ for the Content section of the site. From this page you can also choose to Add Content (although it is suggested that for Content Creators this also be shown as a Shortcut on the Toolbar). Different types of content can be filtered into different tabs, as comments are, for example, on this page. You may also wish to provide separate tabs for content such as Products (if you have Ubercart running), or Events or Projects Structure This section of the IA groups together tools used to ‘build’ content for the website which both have and create a User Interface (UI), including:read more

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Download Drupal 6.13 Download Drupal 5.19 Drupal 6.13 and 5.19, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as critical security vulnerabilities, are now available for download. Both releases fix some other smaller issues as well. Upgrading your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 6.x release series, consult the Drupal 6.0 release announcement, more information on the 5.x releases can be found in Drupal 5.0 release announcement. read more

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The Embed Google Maps module provides a CCK field for embedding Google Maps into nodes. You can embed any kind of Google Maps including driving directions and personal maps. You can also type a search query into the field and display the search results in the field. No Google Maps API key is required. Maps can be embedded right away with no setup needed. Development of this module has been sponsored by Hoist.

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This module can use every single ImageField field added to any node in a Drupal 6 website, and uses ImageCache presets to display it. It integrates with TinyMCE via WYSIWYG too. ImageField Assist is based on img_assist code. Dependencies ImageField ImageCache Development and maintenance sponsored by Chuva Inc.

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The Omega theme will be awesome wrapped in awesome, wrapped in bacon, topped with cheese! The Omega theme 960gs base theme Integrated "grid builder" or grid management interface. important features from popular themes. Tons of built in theme configurations That's as far as I've got. I have wireframes for several default layouts, and the system will be in place to manage the size of certain regions on the grid. Hoping to really help make 960gs more usable for themers and site administrators. I'm hoping to have a decent beta ready after the long weekend. I will be updating here with more details as they are comitted. Maintainer Developed and maintained by Jake Strawn Sponsored by CommonPlaces e-Solutions, LLC Warning The current dev branch from HEAD is a sure bet to blow up your drupal site, steal your purse, eat small kittens, and read your emails. In other words: Don't use it yet...

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This is a provider file to integrate Youku with Embedded Media Field. Youku is one of the famous online video site in China.

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Airy Blue is a blog-style Zen sub-theme created for Open Source Catholic in 2009. The theme validates as XHTML 1.0 strict, uses some beautiful CSS3 features (currently supported more in FireFox, Safari and Chrome than other browsers), and includes styling for most of Drupal's default markup. It has a 'light' and 'airy' feel to it, and matches well with Drupal's default shades of blue. Included in the theme is the PSD (Photoshop) file for the header; you can re-color it and adjust the shading/styling of it if you'd like, and make your own header. Also, be sure to read the README.txt file inside the theme folder so you can take full advantage of the theme's features/customizations. Theme Features Web 2.0 styling - light and easy on the eyes Valid XHTML 1.0 - Tested in IE 6/7, FF, Safari Example of progressive enhancement - some CSS3 included Up to three columns - small left sidebar, wide right sidebar Based on popular Zen theme, so lots of documentation for modification Styling for comments, user pictures, signatures, etc. Custom Maintenance Page read more

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This module provides a "status" node type, a facebook-style status input form, and the ability to route a status to a different node type (i.e. upload an image).

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ADT Basetheme v2 is the basetheme for all new drupal themes on alldrupalthemes.com and the themes produced by the Design to Drupal service. It can be used as a basetheme, for creating subthemes. If you don't know how to work with subthemes, the theme is also designed so that it can easily be stripped and modified. This theme was not designed for use on a live site, but I added some basic styling and it at least looks decent, so if you're happy with the minimal styling it's ok for production use. This theme includes a lot of code for theme settings and color module integration. If you do not wish to make use of theme settings and/or color module, you can easily strip the theme of these implementations by deleting some files and folders.. see README.txt for more info. Features read more

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IMPORTANT: This theme is a pure css theme which requires a host theme - the Devavrata Core Theme (FREE Version, downloadable here.) This is a subtheme of Devavrata Core Theme Look Pro, Feel Pro with this theme! It's time to take another step in theming. NEw! video version http://www.pro.devavrata.com This is the No.1 Drupal's Multimedia Theme, No other theme matches its quality and performance. Required: read more

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Bookstore is a sub-theme of the Blueprint Drupal theme (http://drupal.org/project/blueprint). The Drupal Blueprint theme integrates Drupal with the famous Blueprint CSS framework (http://www.blueprintcss.org). Bookstore currently works with Drupal 6 only. In fact it's still not IE6 safe. Besides standard compliant browsers, it has been successfully tested in IE6-8. The Bookstore sub-theme is based on a design by Dieter Schneider of www.csstemplateheaven.com. The original design (along with the PSD) can be found at http://www.csstemplateheaven.com/business-templates/book-store/ Bookstore is a two column theme (left column, content column) Installation Install the blueprint Drupal theme first. This will involve downloading the Blueprint CSS framework from blueprintcss.org. See the README of the blueprint theme for details. Do make sure your site works with the blueprint theme before proceeding to the next step. Uncompress the bookstore sub-theme inside the blueprint theme's directory. Enable the bookstore sub-theme from your Drupal site's theme selection page (i.e. admin/build/themes). Licence The bookstore sub-theme and all its images are under the GPL license. Dieter Schneider has kindly agreed to let his images be used under the GPL license.

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This is the NineSixty theme (http://drupal.org/project/ninesixty) developed as a Zen sub theme for use with Zen theme (http://drupal.org/project/zen) for Drupal 6. A big thanks to Nathan Smith for creating 960 CSS framework and Dvessel for the NineSixty theme. Without them this Zen sub theme would not have been possible. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What's different in this theme compare to the original NineSixty theme: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - It inherits all the theme settings from the Zen theme (like inline block editing). - Added Debug mode (showing grid on the page) as a theme setting so you can enable/disable it in the theme settings page (/admin/build/themes/settings/ninesixty) - Additional region added: 'content top' and 'content bottom' so blocks can be assigned to the top or bottom of the main content area. - Installaton, please read the INSTALL.txt that comes with this theme - Quick install guide: You must install the base Zen theme (http://drupal.org/project/zen) and then install this sub theme for it to work properly (place it in a directory like /sites/all/themes/). This theme was developed by Duvien

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Misty Look is a WordPress theme by Sadish Bala. I had changed to a Drupal theme. Features Use <div> elements for layouts Support for site name, site slogan, primary links and search box Fixed width (780px) Two sidebars Right sidebar IE PNG Fix Show or hide breadcrumb Setting display for taxonomy terms Tested on Firefox 3, Safari and IE 6-8. Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS 2.1

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DOWNLOAD FREE VERSION With built-in skinning technology, you can customize Devavrata Core Theme to any look and feel you like, download these FREE sample skins! FREE Skins Video|Image Producer Theme - Great for multimedia websites COLOR Producer Theme - produces all kinds of color combinations for your website because it is integrated with color module If space is very valuable to your website, this is the right theme for you, I maximized the margins to only 5px, with so may options for layout, please check features, great for Ubercart/e-commerce site building! read more

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Introduction Artsy is designed by CIGNEX. Features * Supports logo, site name, slogan, title, search box, shortcut icon, primary links and secondary links. * Fixed width layout with flexible 3 column system. * CSS based, tableless design. * Compatible and tested with Firefox and IE7. This theme is a port of the http://www.freecsstemplates.org premiumseries template. A preview of this theme on http://www.freecsstemplates.org can be found HERE.

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Joker is a theme that provides a GUI on the theme settings page to set layout values such as page width, column width header and footer heights, as well as page margins. In addition it allows the upload of an image of the theme design and provides a GUI to cut up that image into theme imagery. It also allows the user to choose colors for the background of the body, page, page-header, page body, and page footer as well as colors of links headings and text. Lastly it allows multiple presets of colors, imagery and margins to be saved and loaded at the click of a button.

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A refreshing theme that aims the quick deploy in any browser with small foot-print but at the same time without sacrificing good design quality. Let me know if it is working. If you have any question, please subscribe here Thank you. :-) 1.You can change "Site Name" and "Slogan". 2.Support administrator theme. 3.Totally dynamic with two columns (if you need or want any change please let me know, I can help ). 4.Support for any module. 5.Small file that aim the quick deploy in any browser. 6.You can change the footer, but please leave the link to my website. 7.The code: Valid CSS/XHTML, no nested table mess, and a reasonably good design. 8.Support for Java (Jquery). 9.1000 pixels wide. 10.and the last: remember that every time that you change your theme you have to, either sacrifice something or work around of what you got before, but don't worry I'm here to help, if you need me. Thank you.

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A theme that aims to (eventually) implement typographical best practices, offers versatile columns (#474100: Take Advantage Of ns Function To Create More Sidebar Options) based on the 960 grid system. More information to follow. This theme will be finished by the end of the summer.

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Mediacurrent collaborated with InterMedia Outdoors, Inc. to redesign their family of interactive websites using the Drupal content management system as a foundation. This required the migration and restructuring of content from several websites hosted by a legacy content management system (CMS.) The result was a fresh, modern web design and a social network that allowed Intermedia’s users to access a vast repository of content quickly and easily. This case study focuses on www.in-fisherman.com, the first website Mediacurrent developed for InterMedia Outdoors, Inc. read more

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This is a Drupal theme for Drupal 5 and 6. It has three columns and 20 block regions. If you have any questions or comments please e-mail them to dannysilver3@gmail.com

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I'm looking at a fresh new copy of Drupal 5 Views Recipes. I wrote it, and I'm thrilled to see it in print. I have a mix of Drupal 5 and Drupal 6 sites out there. If you've got any Drupal 5 sites, consider this book. Appendices I'll start by mentioning the appendices, since I think that's one of the most information-rich sections of the book. (The rest of the book consists of 94 step-by-step recipes.) Appendix A – List of all default views available for Drupal 5 Appendix B – Comprehensive list of Drupal 5 field formatters, by module Appendix C – Comprehensive list of Drupal 5 style plugins, by module Appendix D – Views 1 hooks Appendix E – Modules included in recipe ingredients Appendix F – Additional resources and modules Appendix G – Selected noteworthy patches to Views, sorted by topic Appendix E can serve as an index to the recipes, and also includes a column indicating which modules are available for Drupal 6. Appendix G unlocks a whole host of functionality not available in Views 1 by default. Recipes Interesting content includes: - How to overcome the case of the missing term in taxonomy views - Views arguments - Proximity search (Find every trailhead within 6 miles of a Senior Center, for instance) read more

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Another clean/light style theme, strongly focused on typography. Original Wordpress theme/project homepage: http://digitalnature.ro/projects/arclite/

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Dovetail is the kind of warm, welcoming theme that gives visitors a warm feeling when they arrive at your blog Original GPL licensed theme: http://demo.spectacu.la/dovetail/

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Black Mamba is a heavy mod of the Waffles and Acquia Marina themes so credit goes to them. I was also motivated by sites like cnet.com and sourceforge.com with their cool black headers, and you will see that in Black Mamba the header area is just as compact. Features * CSS-based (tableless) * Flexible layout * 1, 2, or 3 column * 13 collapsible block regions * Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict * Cross-browser IE 6/7, FF 2/3, Safari 3/4 I am currently migrating my site to this theme so a live demo will be posted soon, but the theme was ripe for release so I went ahead. This theme is dedicated to Dave Carradine from Kill Bill. Black Mamba was one of his sidekicks in the movie :) RIP Dave.

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Red Ruby is a clean theme ideal for blogs and small personal websites and uses a light blue and red colour scheme. Features: Support for logo, primary links, mission, shortcut icon and user pictures Fluid width layout Drop-down primary links menu Supports both 2 column and 3 column layout Cross browser compatible Tested in IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Safari 3.2 & Chrome Theme initially created with Artisteer. Enhanced and cleaned up by Agileware. Installation - Primary links In order to make Primary links show up, go to admin/build/block and assign the 'Primary links' block to the 'Menu' region. About the developers This project is maintained by Agileware Pty Ltd, http://www.agileware.net/content/drupal. We have a great deal of experience in both Drupal module development and design. Please feel free to contact us to discuss your requirements. We have the right solution for every budget.

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The Paradise Drupal theme features a clean, light layout with a white and blue colour scheme and is perfect for travel agencies and travel blogs. Features: Support for logo, primary links, mission, shortcut icon and user pictures Fixed width layout Drop-down primary links menu Supports both 2 column and 3 column layout Cross browser compatible Tested in IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Safari 3.2 & Chrome Theme initially created with Artisteer. Enhanced and cleaned up by Agileware. Installation - Primary links In order to make Primary links show up, go to admin/build/block and assign the 'Primary links' block to the 'Menu' region. About the developers This project is maintained by Agileware Pty Ltd, http://www.agileware.net/content/drupal. We have a great deal of experience in both Drupal module development and design. Please feel free to contact us to discuss your requirements. We have the right solution for every budget.

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For the last few months myself and quite a few community members have been working on a larger vision for our beloved Drupal documentation. It has taken quite a bit longer than I had hoped, but I want to put out a draft of an initial "roadmap" for documentation that outlines our bigger issues and an approach to tackling them. I've attached a document which has everything we've hammered out so far in a 10 page document along with three appendices. This post is just a short summary of what is in that document and to let people know that we are gearing up to kick things off and really make Drupal documentation rock. For starters, we've spent a lot of time identifying problem areas, prioritizing them and setting out some target dates. When looking at the tasks we need to accomplish we recognized that there are two main areas to focus on: the documentation itself and the community of people that create and maintain it. read more

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The LA user's group is planning the 2009 DrupalCamp, and nbluto and I are going to organize a drupalchix-themed track of some sort. We've just begun planning - and are hoping for feedback from you as to what themes/topics/discussions you would find most useful in such a track! Please let us know your thoughts in this discussion. This will help us organize something truly useful :) And if you are LA based (or thinking of joining us for DrupalCampLA in early August) and want to help out, please let us know that, as well. Thank you! Los Angeles

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At DrupalCon DC 2009, an unexpected event happened. While sessions centered on development, writing code, performance, businesses and the community were happening up front, the community of Drupal designers and themers were connecting behind the scenes like never before. It started over Twitter and in small Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions and ended with the designers and themers taking over a room for the last two days of DrupalCon. read more

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Packt Publishing is pleased to announce the release of a new Drupal book called Flash with Drupal, authored by Travis Tidwell. Catered for Drupal Developers, this book walks the reader through the evolution of many different Flash applications built around the power and flexibility of Drupal. Packt Publishing is also pleased to offer a 15% discount to any Drupal.org user. To purchase this book with this discount, simply purchase Flash with Drupal through Packt Publishing, and provide the code FlashDru15. Also, keep in mind that Packt contributes a portion of every book sale right back to Drupal! read more

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Packt Publishing is celebrating its fifth year in existence by crowning an author of the year for 2009. All authors releasing a book through Packt in 2008 were eligible for this distinction. Voting was opened to the public and through this process the field was whittled down to six finalists. The competition has served as a reflection of the quality work being done within the Drupal community. Of the 81 titles under consideration, covering a wide range of IT disciplines, two of the final six authors wrote books on Drupal. Aaron Winborn was recognized for his book "Drupal Multimedia" and Matt Butcher for "Learning Drupal 6 Module Development". The vote will now go to a panel of experts who will determine the winner based the quality of the author's work and its contribution to the tech community.

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As part of the Geo June activity, we've started a website to aggregate the work being done: http://www.geojune.org. We're aiming to provide documentation, demos of the developing modules, tutorials, etc. To get the ball rolling on more formal documentation of all things geospatial in Drupal, we've started some Drupal books on geojune.org: http://www.geojune.org/documentation. The idea is to collaboratively work on documentation of not only the geo related contrib modules, but also deeper info about GIS and Drupal in general. The module documentation will be adapted to be included as d.o documentation pages; the deeper documentation, demos, examples will remain or be moved for potential permanent status for future development and reference. Right now there are two upper-level books: One a getting started guide to mapping, the other a guide to geocoding Drupal data and storing geospatial data in Drupal. This division is loosely meant to divide the two types of contrib modules: display/mapping and geocoding/storage related to GIS work in Drupal. It is a suggested division at this point, open for discussion or further subdivision. The mapping guide is empty right now. We'd love those involved in mapping modules (Openlayers, etc.) to start putting some pages here. The geocoding guide has some placeholder documentation related to the Geo and Geocode module as lifted from the documentation wiki page started here in the Location Mapping group by ultimike. We've started to break out that info into sub pages. It's all rough right now. We need as many interested people as possible to weigh in and start documenting. Go to the site, get yourself a login, and contribute! Head into the #drupal-geo IRC channel for guidance or to ask maintainers/documenters for potential documentation assignments. We also hope to get a group from the Twin Cities Drupal Users Group Documentation Sprint on June 20 to take parts of this on as a project. Thanks, Barry Madore Advantage Labs (on behalf of the GeoJune #drupal-geo IRC participants) Twin Cities

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When Zappos.com needed a content management system for its ever-growing content, it looked to Drupal after it was showcased at SXSW '08. Zappos.com built its first Drupal site, About.Zappos.com, as a way to test the features, capabilities and development effort of a Drupal site. With that project Drupal successfully showed itself to be both flexible and customizable and therefore a good fit for Zappos. Since then, Drupal has played a larger role at Zappos in a multitude of projects. Established in 1999, Zappos.com has quickly become a leader in online apparel and footwear sales by striving to provide shoppers with the best possible service and selection. In 2008, the company’s gross merchandise sales exceeded $1 billion. Zappos.com currently stocks millions of products from over 1000 clothing and shoe brands. Zappos.com was recognized in 2009 by FORTUNE MAGAZINE as one of the “100 BEST COMPANIES TO WORK FOR”, debuting as the highest-ranking newcomer to FORTUNE’s 2009 list. More information about the company’s customer service philosophy, unique company culture, and job openings can be found at About.Zappos.com. read more

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Improving the usability of Drupal is very important. Yesterday, I wrote about the progress that was made on Drupal 7 usability -- the community has made a ton of incremental improvements, while Mark and Leisa have been preparing mockups and wireframes that provide significant over-arching improvements to Drupal's ease of use. Combined, I believe these efforts could make Drupal 7 a great release. A release that the Drupal project needs since our competitors are catching up in terms of functionality and flexibility. Likewise we need to catch up in terms of design and usability. It is my belief that we can develop a user experience for our project that is game changing, and that completely resets people's expectations both for Drupal and our competitors. read more

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Almost 3 months have passed since Bonnie and her team performed the ultimate party trick: materializing a 1400 people conference out of thin air. In the meantime many of you have been organizing camps, launching client projects, training new developers, contributing new modules and crafting beautiful designs. You have been extending core, writing tests, attacking patch queues, reshaping D7 and madly sprinting to keep ahead of the impending code freeze. You are awesome. Really. You are what drives the DrupalCon Paris team. You make us want to put together a DrupalCon to remember. All the hours we spend selecting the right wine, cheese and pastries and the nights away from our families hand-picking the perfect hotel rooms and apartments... it's all for you. Because we love you. Come check out what we have in store for you. The new paris2009.drupalcon.org is ready to take your orders. Be quick: the early bird ticket price isn't going to last forever... For those of you who want to become a sponsor and help make this DrupalCon happen: have a look at the sponsorship opportunities and don't hesitate to contact us. read more

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The winners of the Horizon Interactive Awards were unveiled last week. In this eighth annual competition over 2000 sites were reviewed from 32 countries. The participants were judged on their creativity, user experience, and technical merit in media ranging from Web sites to DVDs. Several Drupal sites brought home awards, including those from Palantir.net, studio:module, and pingVision. read more

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Drupal is a Webware 100 winner for the third year in a row. This year Drupal was in the Social & Publishing category with well known services including MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and Wordpress.com. Drupal was one of 10 winners in the category. From CNET The 2009 Webware 100 Awards recognize the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications on the Web today. After receiving more than 6,000 nominations for inclusion in the Webware 100, our editors selected 300 finalists. But the Web's users made the final cut, voting more than 600,000 times to select the 100 top products -- 10 each in 10 categories -- from our list of 300 finalists. If you are a member of the Drupal community, you can add one of these badges to your Drupal site. A big thank-you goes out to all those supporters who voted for Drupal in the awards.

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DrupalCamp Colorado Registration has been opened! You can register at the main camp website - http://www.drupalcampcolorado.org DrupalCamp Colorado is the regions biggest gathering of people interested in Drupal. The event is based around sessions proposed from the community and voted on by attendees. Camp is funded by a mix of entry fees and sponsorships. DrupalCamp Colorado 2009 June 27 and 28th we will be at the Denver PPA Event Center (2105 Decatur St. Denver, CO 80211). This year we will likely have 3 simultaneous tracks of sessions including a room for "Birds of a Feather" gatherings, "hack-sprint" and "docs-sprint." This year we're also running as a joint venture with Ubercamp! So expect many Ubercart related sessions and enthusiasts. Regular admission and Individual Sponsorship You can attend the camp either with regular admission ($20) or as an individual sponsor ($50). Being an individual sponsor will get you recognition with a fancy t-shirt and a warm feeling in your heart knowing that you helped make the camp possible. Ubercamp? What's that? See the About Ubercamp 2.0 page. History of DrupalCamp Colorado The first DrupalCamp Colorado was held in the summer of 2007 when about 15 people gathered at the original pingVision office in Boulder to talk about Drupal on a Saturday morning. In November of 2007 a second camp was held near Denver with about 15 people engaging in a bug-squashing party. In July of 2008 we had almost 100 people gathering at the Denver Open Media facilities. Utah

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Download Drupal 6.12 Download Drupal 5.18 Drupal 6.12 and 5.18, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as a critical security vulnerability, are now available for download. Both releases fix some other smaller issues as well. Upgrading your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 6.x release series, consult the Drupal 6.0 release announcement, more information on the 5.x releases can be found in Drupal 5.0 release announcement. read more

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After winning control of the New York State Senate for the first time in almost 50 years, the Democratic party turned to Advomatic to quickly deploy a new website powered by Drupal. There were many challenges to be overcome, and their requirements pushed the envelope in some areas such as permissions and work flow. In the end, this site stands as a testament to what can be accomplished by a focused and experienced development team using the power and flexibility offered by Drupal and its community. read more

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Packt Publishing has announced its first ever Author of the Year award. The award will be given to the author or authors of one book published by Packt in 2008. Packt is aggressively promoting Drupal by publishing numerous books, and 2008 was clearly a watershed year for Drupal books. Here's a list of Drupal books and authors that are eligible for the award (in the order Packt's search engine returned them): Drupal Multimedia by Aaron Winborn Drupal for Education and E-Learning by Bill Fitzgerald Learning Drupal 6 Module Development by Matt Butcher Drupal 6 Themes by Ric Shreves Drupal 6 Site Builder Solutions by Mark Noble Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6 by David Mercer Packt is asking the community to vote for their favorite authors. The top four authors' works will be submitted to a panel of judges who will select the winner. Go vote and show Packt that their Drupal emphasis is appreciated. read more

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On Friday June 12th, we will be having the Drupal.org redesign sprint. All Drupal designers and developers who would like to learn how to how to contribute to theming drupal.org and implementing the redesign are welcome to attend, but must sign-up in advance. 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA white-tiled building - Sprint is in Conference Room 135: Go to lower level of Media Lab, look for double glass doors "001"; go through doors, up metal staircase; 135 is at the top on right. We will meet on the lower level of Media Lab near the piano at 9:30am. If you have any questions, please call Todd Nienkerk at 512-517-5165. In order to attend, we will train you how to set-up your infrastructure.drupal.org account, and get your own hosted copy of drupal.org so you can see how your theme improvement looks. We will also train you how to work in the redesign theme(BlueCheese) issue queue. If you are interested in helping, please sign-up and we will schedule your training. Boston

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Prentice Hall has just released Front End Drupal: Designing, Theming, Scripting, authored by Emma Jane Hogbin and Konstantin Käfer. This is a book to teach readers how to customize how Drupal looks, with a special focus on Drupal 6 and its new theme engine. Emma Jane and Konstantin cover everything you need to know to create great visual designs and interactivity with Drupal's behaviors, themes, and templates. They show how to style Drupal sites, make the most of its powerful templating system, build sophisticated community sites, streamline site management and build more portable and flexible themes. Also included are several case studies that walk thru the customization of everything from page templates to Web site forms. read more

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There are only a few months left before the code freeze on September 1st. Now that Fields API has settled in core, it's time to extend it with some RDF semantics. DERI Galway is hosting an RDF in Drupal code sprint from May 11th until May 14th. This sprint builds on Dries' ideas expressed in his recent posts Drupal, the semantic web and search and RDFa and Drupal. With RDF in the core of Drupal and RDFa output by default, it's dozens of thousands of websites which will all of a sudden start publishing their data as RDF. So far, Stéphane Corlosquet, Florian Loretan, Benjamin Melançon and Rolf Guescini have signed up. How about you? Some others are willing to come but cannot afford the trip until some funding is secured. To help us fund the sprint and bring more Drupal rockstars on board, please consider making a donation using the ChipIn widget on this page. The money will be used to cover flight, food and hotel costs for the sprinters. All sprinters are generously donating their time to make this happen. It would also be great to fly in a few additional people with extensive testing and Fields experience. Any excess money will be used to add more people, or will be donated to the Drupal Association. read more

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As usual, this year's Summer of Code program had way more qualified students and proposals than it did slots. As a result there are some students with amazing potential who will not be getting directly engaged through this program. But- the Summer of Code isn't the only avenue we have to getting students more involved in the community, there are also summer internships at many companies (I know, for example, that Zivtech will likely be looking for a Drupal intern for the summer). So, with that in mind, I'd like to ask any companies/developers who are looking for interns to post the opportunity here, and for students who didn't make it this time to speak up if they'd be interested in a summer internship. Hopefully together we can make sure that no potential Drupal rockstars slip through the cracks! SoC 2009

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Have you been looking for an excuse to play around a bit with Drupal 7, and have an interest in helping to directly shape it? Would you like to not only see how Drupal core contributors collaborate together, but become one yourself? Do you have an itch you'd like scratched and are willing to help scratch others' in return? Would you like to be exposed to new and interesting areas of Drupal you might not have otherwise experienced? Are you exceptionally good at finding faults and breaking things? If so, drop by #drupal-dev on irc.freenode.net on Saturday (May 16) for a patch review sprint! (What is a patch review sprint? / How to connect to IRC?) While somewhat informal, there will be people around all weekend to help get new patch reviewers started and to help guide seasoned contributors to important patches. Our goal is to try and knock the core patches to review queue down to zero (or as close to it as possible) by trying out patches to see how they work, and recommending ways that they can be improved. The Patch review sprints page has more information on how patch reviews work, a handy cheat-sheet of all the commands you need, and a list of prerequisites in order to participate. Please note that "coding skills" is not on the list of prerequisites. While people with coding skills can perform certain types of reviews better than non-coders, non-coders can also perform certain types of reviews better than coders. In short: everyone is welcome! Hope to see you there! :) read more

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Welcome, accepted Summer of Code students! This post contains important information about prerequisites for starting your project. Please read it carefully. Google has awarded Drupal 18 slots for the 2009 Google Summer of Code. This year there were many strong applications, and narrowing the field to the top 18 was not an easy task. Thanks to all the mentors who helped out with the evaluating, and congratulations to all of the students. We look forward to working with you this summer! :) Although coding doesn't formally kick off until May 23, according to Google's program timeline, there are a few things that need to get sorted out first. If you have questions about how to do any of these things, don't be shy! :) Post to the http://groups.drupal.org/soc-2009 or ask in #drupal on irc.freenode.net, and we'll get you hooked up. Create a central wiki page for your project at the SoC 2009 group. This wiki page should basically be a single location that anyone can read over the course of SoC in order to get a good sense of what your project is about, and where it is currently in terms of completion. There's a template you can copy and paste available at http://groups.drupal.org/node/21558. Add a link to your project in here This page should be updated when you and your mentors reach a major design decision about your project, or if your schedule and/or deliverables need to be adjusted. Use the SoC 2008 group as a tool to help you achieve your goals. Ask questions. Find people to help you test. Discuss design decisions. Post mockups. Be creative. Obtain a CVS account. The code that you produce during Summer of Code will ultimately reside at cvs.drupal.org, and you need to apply for a CVS account if you don't already have one. In your application, please mention that you are a Google Summer of Code student, so that your account will get approved quickly. If you're new to CVS (or revision control systems in general), you might find our CVS handbook helpful, particularly the CVS introduction. Additionally, the CVS quickstart guide is handy to have around as a reference. Create a "project" on drupal.org for your project (even if your delivery is an improvement to an existing module). Once you have CVS access, describe your project briefly in a README.txt and add a sub-folder for it to the contribution repository's modules/ directory, then create a "project" for it on drupal.org, following the instructions at Step-by-step: Create a CVS project. This will give you several tools at your disposal, including: a central project page, which you can use to document your project and its current state. an issue tracker, which you can use to break your project apart into sub-tasks and track their completion status. Using the issue tracker allows your mentors (or any other community members) to provide input on your development process. the ability to create project releases, which testers can download and try out on their own Drupal installations. There is helpful information about working with these tools available in the Maintaining d.o projects with CVS guide. Note that issue tracker and CVS commit activity will be primary methods of evaluating projects, and we require you to create an issue every week to report . These show us that you're making progress each week, and should be titled "Milestone X" and tagged with "SoC 2009 Weekly Update". Meet your mentors and discuss your project. Please investigate which means of communication your mentors prefer. Communication is a crucial element of success, and you are encouraged to use email, Skype, IRC (http://drupal.org/node/108355), the SoC 2009 group (http://groups.drupal.org/soc-2009), the devel list (http://drupal.org/mailing-lists), and any other resources that are available to make sure that the lines of communication between you and your mentor are well established and open for the duration of the summer. Ensure sure that any broad or project management-related changes are documented in your wiki page, and any code-related decisions/feedback is reflected in your project's issue queue, for the benefit of those who didn't have a chance to take part in your personal communication. Refine the scope of your project. Discuss with your mentors whether they feel the scope of the project described in your application is realistic and clear. If there are ambiguities, try to iron them out. We're looking for clearly stated deliverables that you feel confident you can produce by the end of the summer. Update your project's wiki page with the result. Plan on testing. It is a requirement for this year's Summer of Code projects to include test scripts. For most people the simpletest framework will be the best solution. See documentation at http://drupal.org/simpletest. If you have any questions to one of the points above, your mentor will be able to help you (or ask here). We're looking forward to working with you. Happy Coding, Drupal's Google Summer of Code team SoC 2009

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Drupal is excited to announce that we have 18 amazing projects in this year's Google Summer of Code. This is the fifth year that Drupal has participated in the program, bringing the total investment made by Google in Drupal through the SoC to over $400,000. This investment has resulted in numerous modules and core improvements, but more importantly it has brought in many long time contributors to the drupal project and helped keep numerous other contributors engaged and active in the community. As usual we had way more great proposals than we had slots, but for the first time we have a father-son team (Jim and Jimmy Berry) working on SoC projects! Jimmy Berry actually convinced his dad to apply. We always try and expand the Drupal family/community with each Summer of Code, but the variety in projects and students of this year takes it to a whole new level! This year's Summer of Code projects focus on integrating Drupal with other APIs, improving and enhancing many module suites, and helping to build new functionalities that will help keep Drupal at the cutting edge of what's possible with a CMS. Most of the projects still require co-mentors, and we'll be trying to connect these students with the community in a real world setting, so if you're interested in helping out with community bonding or code review, or even if you just want to keep tabs on the SoC progress, join us over at the Summer of Code group - it's not too late for you to help out! Please help me in thanking Google for their support of Drupal and all Free & Open Source Software projects, and please welcome our Summer of Code 2009 Students. read more

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The nominations for the 13th Annual Webby Awards were recently announced, and they include a number of sites built in Drupal! Presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, the Webby Award is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. It’s like the Oscars for websites. In addition to the juried awards, which are decided by a 650-person judging academy whose members include Internet co-inventor Vinton Cerf, R/GA’s Chief Bob Greenberg, “Simpsons” creator Matt Groening, Arianna Huffington, and Harvey Weinstein, all nominees are also eligible to win a Webby People’s Voice Award, which is voted online by the global Web community. This is where you come in! From now until April 30th, you can cast your vote at http://pv.webbyawards.com – this is a great opportunity for the community to come out, show their support, and get out the word that some of the best sites in the world are powered by Drupal. We’ve created a list of all the known Drupal sites sorted by the category in which they were nominated below; please let us know in the comments if we’ve missed any. Winners will be announced on May 5th, 2009 and honored at a star-studded ceremony in New York City on June 8th hosted by Seth Meyers. read more

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There are only a few months left before the code freeze on September 1st. Now that Fields API has settled in core, it's time to extend it with some RDF semantics. DERI Galway is hosting an RDF in Drupal code sprint during the week of May 11th until May 14th. Goals of the code sprint The RDF code sprint will focus on Drupal core and aim at integrating RDF semantics in it. Extend Fields API to integrate RDF mappings for each field instance. The semantics of a field can differ from a bundle to another. This can be stored either in the existing settings property or by adding a rdf_mappings property to the Field Instance objects. Modify the Fields UI (contrib) to allow RDF mappings editing. Define the appropriate mappings for the core modules, based on the RDF core mapping proposal. Patch core modules with the mappings defined above. Export these mappings in RDFa via the theme layer and keep it as generic as possible in order to ease the work of the themers. Write tests for RDF in core. Identify other non-fieldable entities in core which could benefit from being RDF-ized, and see how to annotate them. Comment is one example. Terms also, though they might become fieldable. RSS 1 (RDF) in core. Arto volunteered to get started with that. See a list of current open RDF issues in RDF issues in core. See also the RDF code sprint wiki page where we will keep an up to date list of goals. Discussion and open issues Should modules be allowed to change these mappings via a hook_alter? Participants Stéphane Corlosquet, DERI (organizer) Florian Loretan, HappyPixels (organizer) Rolf Guescini, Cerpus Benjamin Melançon, Agaric Design Stefan Freudenberg, Agaric Design Frédéric G. Marand, OSInet Mark Birbeck, webBackplane John Morahan, io1 This list is not closed. If you or your group have expertise in Drupal core development + RDF and would to participate, please contact me directly at stephane.corlosquet@deri.org. We are specifically looking for people familiar with the Fields API, theming and testing. Sponsoring We are looking for sponsors to help funding travels and accommodation for some of the participants. There are a couple of developers who are willing to come but cannot afford their flight without sponsoring. Get to Galway, Ireland You can either fly to: Dublin and get a direct bus from the airport to Galway (3h ride) for 25 euros return or alternatively get the train from Heuston station in Dublin to Galway (30min bus + 2,5 train). Shannon and catch a direct bus to Galway (2h) 23 euros with Citylink. Galway and catch a cab to the city (~20 euros). Flights are more expensive and mostly from the UK only. Ryanair and Aerlingus among others fly to Ireland. Accommodation Sleepzone Hostel (Budget): Backpacker hostel close to the town centre/Eyre Square. Friendly staff and generally hassle free in my experience, though can be a lot of passing noise on the street outside. Free wifi in the spacious kitchen and lounge area, plus an internet room. Basic breakfast included in the price last time I stayed. Some private rooms, or you can sometimes get a whole dorm room to yourself if you don't want to share. A decent budget option. Westwood House Hotel(Top End): Just across the road from DERI Galway, on the outskirts of town. Quite upmarket. I haven't stayed here, but the restaurant is decent. Possibly a good option if you just want to visit the DERI building, but maybe a bit inconvenient if you want to get to and from town frequently? Corrib haven : 5 minutes walk from DERI, a nice BnB. Bacon / Eggs / Sausages for breakfast. Not sure if they have single rooms, the price for a double one is usually 35pps. They have a wifi access, but not working very well. There's another BnB in front of that one, almost the same prices. Yet, as for Westwood, it's a bit far from the city center. The Abbey House BnB - Just down the road from DERI, about 3 mins walking. Right next to the Corrib Haven (see above). The website looks a bit outdated, but the BnB is nice (I stayed there myself once). Snoozle's (Budget): Another backpaper hotel in the city center (2 minutes from the new coach station). Not sure they have wifi, but it's brand new and really clean, at least in the lounge / kitchen, I didn't try the rooms. Semantic Web

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Do you want to know what's been done and what's coming in Drupal 7, how to make your site hacker proof, or see why walkah hates Drupal? Just visit dc2009.drupalcon.org. The videos of more than 100 presentations that were given at DrupalCon DC are now freely available from the conference website, alongside information about the speaker and about the session topic. A ton of great information was shared at DrupalCon DC, and we wanted to continue to get it out to anyone who's interested. To this end, we turned the DrupalCon DC website into a conference archive with video of each session embedded in it so that anyone who missed a session, missed the entire conference, or just learned what Drupal is last week can still benefit from the knowledge shared in Washington, DC. Go to dc2009.drupalcon.org to watch session videos, and thanks again to the crew that recorded all of the sessions! read more

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We're stacking up karma points during this recession: over the weekend more than sixty people gathered at the DERI Institute in Galway, Ireland to talk, learn, and exchange ideas about Drupal. Various experts in web design attended coming from all over Ireland and as far as Scotland, England and the US. The best turn out was in absolute newbies - over half of the group who had traveled from all over Ireland. As an incentive to push the learning curves we worked together to provide 3 Irish charities: Zikomo, Rural Science Association and Shadowbox Theatre with brand spanking new websites! The plan was conceived 5 months ago when Alan Burke (alanburke) and Stéphane Corlosquet (scor) were brainstorming what to do for the next Irish Drupal event to bring it home to Galway. They wanted to do something different and make it over 2 days to take advantage of the presentation style of a BarCamp and to include a site-building challenge. Realizing they would need a great deal of help they recruited Stella Power (stella), Heather James (heather) for their expertise from organizing the previous DrupalCamp in Dublin. We, the organizers, were impressed by the number of people who turned up as we expected 40-50. The rooms filled up fast and we had barely enough food for everybody. Alan had the insight to have a giant kettle available to provide plenty of tea and coffee with "loads of biccies" to all the attendees. read more

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Based on an email conversation I had with Darren, Evgeny, Aron Novak and Walkah I pulled together this roadmap for advanced OpenID features (attribute exchange, provider, etc). The goal is to reduce the overall number of modules involved in deploying OpenID attribute exchange features, to expand on existing content profile integration, to remove dependencies on modules that are not used in all use cases and to push changes into OpenID and OpenID Provider where it makes sense. This is the initial situation (April 9, 2009). There is fully functional support for OpenID authentication and attribute exchange on client and server. The multitude of modules is not ideal, given their small size it should be easy to consolidate them. Proposed changes in step 1: OpenID provider AX and OpenID provider SREG depend on Persona, Persona is therefore mandatory. Reverse this dependency so that provider implementations with content profile instead of persona are possible. For AX this is already done: http://drupal.org/node/399746, for SREG I just opened a ticket: http://drupal.org/node/430332 Expand upon openid_cp_field to make it an OpenID/Content Profile integration module with a mapping UI for both client and server. Currently OpenID CP Field and OpenID client AX do both content profile mapping -> duplicate functionality. This change will make it worthwhile to expand on the UI for mapping and it will remove content profile integration from OpenID client AX which will prepare the ground for Step 2. Patch in queue: http://drupal.org/node/428932 Proposed changes in step 2: After step 1 OpenID client AX, OpenID provider AX and OpenID provider SREG are going to be very small API modules that can easily be rolled into OpenID and OpenID provider. Benefits: These two steps would bring us from 7 modules in the set down to 4 modules, they would reduce the number of [edit: contrib ]modules to deploy on an OpenID provider from 5 to 3. Additionally, dependencies between modules would be cleaned up and content_profile-only implementations would be possible. I'd love to get Step 1 out of the way as soon as possible and I think that there is basic agreement on Step 1 changes. If there is agreement on Step 2 we could start working on it as soon as Step 1 patches are committed. Id' suggest to create a Drupal 6 2.x branch for OpenID provider and a Drupal 6 1.x branch for OpenID module to prevent existing deployments from breaking. What are your thoughts? OpenID

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Digital Dollhouse is a virtual world where girls of all ages are empowered to become their own interior designers. Members can paint, furnish and decorate their own virtual dream houses complete with plants, pets and dolls, and even purchase and regift items in a virtual economy. Designed and built in Drupal from the ground up, Digital Dollhouse uses Drupal as a front- and back-end engine and Flash for the primary front-end game play. Drupal was selected as a development platform because of its robust and extensible framework and excellent integration with Flash/Flex applications. The high quality and availability of third-party modules greatly helped in the decision, as well. We found that Drupal is an excellent choice for managing virtual worlds with virtual goods and currencies. The heart of Digital Dollhouse’s business model is virtual goods micro-transactions. A member can visit the online store (which Digital Dollhouse calls the “Boutique”), purchase an item and then play with it in a virtual dollhouse (which we named the “playarea”). Userpoints proved to be a robust and outstanding solution for all of our virtual currency needs. Digital Dollhouse is also greatly indebted to the developers of the Invite, Buddylist, Voting API, Ubercart and Ubercart Userpoints modules. In 2008, Jesyca Durchin and and David Schnepp of Digital Playspace chose Exaltation of Larks, a development and design firm in Boston and Los Angeles, to lead the development of Digital Dollhouse. From the beginning, there were many indications that Digital Dollhouse would be a success. read more

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Let's go out, have a few beers (or beverage of your choice) and talk Drupal. No agenda, just a bunch of geeks hanging out. Location Stout NYC 133 W 33rd St, NY, NY Between 6th and 7th Avenue Take the 1,2,3 to 34th St. Penn Station, or D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 34th St. Herald Square. Time I'll be there right at 6:00PM. Get there when you can. Stay for as long as you want. There's pretty decent food if you need to eat. New York City

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Bonnier Publications A/S publish magazines in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Holland. All the magazines have websites, some of which are quite significant and have a large amount of traffic and reasonable revenue, while others are simple presentation sites. Altogether Bonnier Publications (BP) has more than 40 sites in five different languages. For many years, BP has used the Java-based CMS Polopoly for all their sites, but this has not been optimal and especially programming the sites was far too slow, even for the smallest adjustments. During the summer of 2008, BP decided that their CMS technology needed replacing to enable their editorial staff and sales departments to take full advantage of the Internet's dynamic potential. They chose Drupal CMS, and Peytz & Co. was appointed strategic partner and asked to handle the platform migration. read more

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Hello World, As you may have noticed, Groups.Drupal.org is being upgraded to Drupal 6. In that process we are adding fun new features and re-evaluating decisions from the past. After careful consideration we have decided to remove the ability to post private content to the site. As a result, we will be unpublishing all existing private content. We manually reviewed existing private content and it was either posts that could be public or which could find a new home outside of groups.drupal.org. What you need to do with your old private content If you posted private content, you will get an e-mail this coming week to advise you about this decision so that you can either publish that old content or know that it will be deleted. After Friday April 10th, this content will be unpublished. If you have general questions you can leave them as comments here. Groups.drupal.org

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