February 2009
Case Study: Canadian Motocross News Site
Submitted by heshan on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 00:08Late in 2008, an idea began to gather steam. The idea was to launch a news website about Canadian motocross, but not just another site that dealt with the industry from a sterile, detached viewpoint. Direct Motocross was born from a passion to create a site that captured the true spirit of Canadian motocross, the grit and the grime and the grease.
Drupal 6.10 and 5.16 released
Submitted by heshan on Wed, 02/25/2009 - 23:50Download Drupal 6.10
Download Drupal 5.16
Drupal 6.10 and 5.16, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as a critical security vulnerability, are now available for download.
Case study: Canada's largest weekly newsmagazine moves to Drupal
Submitted by heshan on Mon, 02/23/2009 - 18:01
The Georgia Straight is Canada's largest urban weekly: a Vancouver-based newsmagazine with a per-issue readership of almost 534,000.
Founded in 1967, the paper was critical of local politicians and police and was soon faced with fines for publishing obscenities and police raids. As time went on the "Straight", as locals call it, became more established, but maintained a progressive editorial stance. Straight.com is the newspaper's online presence.
Row Eleven Wine Co. – Multi-domain E-Commerce Site
Submitted by heshan on Fri, 02/20/2009 - 13:32Row Eleven Wine Company in Marin County, CA came to ISL Consulting determined to create an online store that reflected the many sides of this unique specialty wine producer. It had to both serve the company's immediate objective to sell more wine online and be able to incorporate a number of new features in the coming years.
Requirements
Since the company had a number of specialty wines, at least three separate branding sites were needed, run by the same administrators.
Drupal.org is upgraded to Drupal 6
Submitted by heshan on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 07:36Thanks to the work of numerous people through free time contributions, our upgrade sprint in Cambridge, MA, and several testing and bugfixing hours committed by the community, today we were finally ready to make the jump and upgrade drupal.org to Drupal 6. Our site runs several interesting modules, many of which receive little love outside our infrastructure, plus we are running on multiple database servers and webservers with several other helper components in the backend. So while we crafted a fine plan for the upgrade, it took a few more hours then originally planned.
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2009 Drupal Association Election Results
Submitted by heshan on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 02:28On Tuesday, February 17, 2009, the Drupal Association General Assembly held its third election. The Drupal Association elected both new permanent members to the Drupal Association, and a new Board of Directors.
There were 27 candidates who submitted applications to the Drupal Association, which includes existing members re-applying for board positions in 2009. Of those, we elected six new members as permanent members, and a board consisting of eight individuals.
Specific vote results are itemized below the break.
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The Trinidad Guardian now using Drupal - case study of a newspaper website
Submitted by heshan on Tue, 02/17/2009 - 01:40
The Trinidad Guardian, one of 3 popular newspapers in Trinidad, re-launched their website on New Years Day 2009 using Drupal 5. The site has a simple design done by their in-house graphics designer Ms. Maxie Navarro. The Drupal developer behind it, Shivan Jaikaran, would like to share his techniques as a tech case study.
Scheduled downtime: Wednesday February 18th, 2009 - 6:00pm-10:00pm UTC
Submitted by heshan on Tue, 02/17/2009 - 00:24The time has come. We are going to turn off some services on drupal.org on Wednesday February 18th, 2009 from 6:00pm to 10:00pm UTC (what time is this in your city?) to perform the upgrade of the live site from our current Drupal 5 version to Drupal 6. The downtime is important to make sure that we have all data intact for the upgrade, and new data is not added to the site while a copy of the site is being upgraded. We scheduled a four hour downtime window, so that we can make sure that everything is working properly before we launch the newly upgraded site.
DrupalCon is coming to Paris in September 2009
Submitted by heshan on Sat, 02/14/2009 - 03:23Great news! On Thursday evening, the Drupal Association board chose Paris to host the next European Drupalcon.
First of all we want to congratulate the teams from the other two candidate cities, Maastricht and Cologne. We know they worked hard, spent a lot of energy and did a great job. We're looking forward to working with you all — your help and experience will be more than welcome...
New Book: Drupal 6 Site Builder Solutions
Submitted by heshan on Fri, 02/13/2009 - 21:28Drupal 6 Site Builder Solutions is a step-by-step guide to building your business website in Drupal, complete with a blog, events calendar, catalogue of products and services, and more. As always, Packt Publishing will be donating a percentage of all book sales directly to the Drupal Association.
Vancouver Magazine Redesign
Submitted by heshan on Wed, 02/11/2009 - 04:00In late August 2008 Grey Vancouver was awarded the contract to redesign the Vancouver Magazine website. Vancouver’s premier magazine covers the events, people and issues that make this city so vibrant. Mixing quality journalism with definitive service content, it reflects Vancouver’s emergence as a dynamic international urban centre.
Drupal.org upgrade sprint in Paris
Submitted by heshan on Mon, 02/09/2009 - 22:16This week, twelve of us have gathered in Paris to continue our work on upgrading drupal.org.
Set your "Now Playing" as Facebook status
Submitted by heshan on Thu, 02/05/2009 - 17:58Here I'm going to tell you how can you set the current playing track in Windows Media Player, Lastfm etc as Facebook status.
Requirements :
Pidgin
First you have to download the Pidgin Messenger. To Download Pidgin Click Here Install it by double clicking the download file(windows).
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Just Racing UK - Selling an Event with Drupal, Ubercart, Views, Dates and some glue
Submitted by heshan on Thu, 02/05/2009 - 09:52In October 2008, NuMedia Advantage launched the new Just Racing UK website, a racing and Triathlon (running, cycling and swimming) event management website. The build process was relatively complicated, involving a lot of modules, some of which were dropped, some of which worked right out the box, and some of which required a good degree of hacking and customisation.