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April 18th, 2012

Technology, Web Content Management, Web Development

Upon arriving at DrupalCon in Denver a few weeks ago, I was very excited to review the schedule and map out the sessions I wanted to attend.  I thought I had a pretty solid schedule until I saw Dries Buytaert, the original creator and project lead for Drupal, give his keynote speech on “Winning hearts and minds through innovation”. I was completely surprised by a segment of his speech where he announced that Drupal 8 would adopt a number of components from Symfony2. (more…)

Sean Hanford

November 30th, 2011

Content Management, Technical

One of the challenges when developing a Drupal site is coordinating development tasks between multiple developers. Frequently, a single developer is responsible for building a site from concept to completion, including both front-end and back-end code. This model is great for smaller, simpler sites; in many cases a good Drupal developer can finish a site in a few days. However, it fails miserably when multiple developers are required to work on a site. In one way or another, this can be traced back to a common problem: improper database management. Understanding the role of the database is critical to creating a successful development, staging, and file versioning process.

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RJ Townsend

September 1st, 2011

Content Management, Technical

In the fast-paced and ever changing world of open source CMS web development exists an endemic issue of perception versus reality.  Drupal 7, introduced in January nearly one year after the release of its very popular predecessor, Drupal 6, is mired in misconceptions of its readiness and reliability.  D7 conjecture is often blogged, tweeted, and whispered about in office corridors. But the truth about Drupal lies with the real Web Leaders – those of us sitting in the top 20% of the trade – who have ventured into every corner of the system and emerged espousing the benefits of the seemingly boundless Drupal.

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Jim Goldbloom

April 14th, 2011

Insight Article, Web Content Management

“Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone.”

 - Linus’ Law[1]

Drupal has arrived. The enterprise level open-source content management system is powering an estimated 7.2 million sites as of July 2010. With well over 3,000 attendees from around the world at last month’s Drupal Conference in Chicago, Drupal is everywhere.  For some, the question remains if Drupal is truly secure enough for enterprise. The U.S. Government believes Drupal is secure enough to run Whitehouse.gov and after our experiences, we fully concur that Drupal provides state of the art security. (more…)

Franz Hartl

April 1st, 2010

Application Development, Technology, Web Content Management

Meredith Casey and I of the NavigationArts Marketing team along with Pete Rose from the Business Development team attended the Web Content Mavens meeting at Il Mulino this past Tuesday night to discuss “Open Source CMS – Is it right for your Organization?”

We heard from Jeff Walpole of Phase II comparing and contrasting different Open Source CMS’s and on why he uses Drupal for so many of his projects, including WhiteHouse.gov.   We heard from Mike Vertal of RivetLogic on Alfresco and why it works so well for some of his clients (enterprises mostly) but that it is not for everyone.  And lastly we heard from Martin Ringlein of nclud on how the popularity of WordPress has positively influenced its SEO capabilities and simlified things such as application development.

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Caroline Mullen

October 30th, 2009

Web Content Management

The team responsible for the Whitehouse.gov Web site has switched over to using the open-source Drupal CMS to manage the site.

From TechPresident.com:

The great Drupal switch came about after the Obama new media team, with a few months of executive branch service (and tweaking of WhiteHouse.gov) under their belts, decided they needed a more malleable development environment for the White House web presence. They wanted to be able to more quickly, easily, and gracefully build out their vision of interactive government.

More thoughts on the change and what it means in terms of technology and the public adoption of open-source software is available from Dries Buyatert (original creator and project lead for Drupal development) and Tim O’Reilly.

Michael Raichelson