Capturing my answer to a question on a mail list I’m on about paying attention to the Drupal admin and editor experience. Particularly, someone was asking if they should open their allowed HTML to allow pasting form and iframe tags versus the risk of being compromised by the same. My initial reply was: If your …
Large organizations want to, or may actually need, strict access control and content review workflows to manage the publishing process on their website. Drupal’s default roles and permissions system is designed to handle the simplest of setups. However, there is a wide variety of modules that each address these needs. Many of them overlap, some …
Finally. This is a huge step forward for Drupal. After eschewing OOP practices for a long time, its finally winning over core developers, which will make working with Drupal as a Framework easier in many ways. I copied the announcement below, but you can see that patch and discussion here. This patch is about to be committed. …
I may be a bit late to the party with this observation, but web design is finally evolving. Mobile phones and tablets have freed us from having to use a laptop or desktop to use the web. Using HTML and CSS, designers can now use media queries to control how a site appears on different …
When a prominent developer and contributor lashes out that Drupal is in dire straits, you better listen. You ought to read his critique of how Drupal core development is stalling, or at least stuck in the mud. That can’t be good news for anyone looking to upgrade to Drupal 7. My thoughts after the quote. …
Matthew at DogStar describes his PM toolbox today, The Project Management Tool Box | Opensource, Nonprofits, and Web 2.0. It’s a detailed and well organized list, and I think reflects a very practical approach. The first thing that strikes me, is the overwhelming amount of tools available to the would-be PM. Certainly, there is no lack …
I had a great time attending and presenting at CapitalCampDC this year, and look forward to doing it again. I talked about how we are using Facebook applications to run contests at D.C. United. You can view the slides at the link below.
Good explanation of the limitatins of using Drupal to run a multi-lingual site. Then there is “the other side”, whatever does not come from code. Drupal works pretty well and very consistent if you want all of those to be in a foreign language (i.e. not English), but not in multiple languages (any of which …
THOUGHTS Drupal Development and Deployment using Git | ruzee.com – Steffen Rusitschka
I posted a comment over at Five community challenges for design in Drupal 7 & beyond. It is awaiting moderation but here it is in case it doesn’t get approved. @Mathieu – saying that coding is fundamentally about rolling out features and bug fixes is like saying that design is rolling out sizing boxes and picking …