Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 3:45pm
A drush site alias file allows you to streamline advanced drush commands and make running them against both local and remote sites a breeze. With a properly configured alias file and an SSH key you can run frequently used commands that have complex options, with a concise easily remembered "alias" on any site. This will help you be far more productive and you will find yourself using drush itself far more often.
Friday, May 11, 2012 - 8:28am
Maps can be a powerful tool for sharing information.
A well built map can make data and ideas accessible to people in a way that is not always easy to do in words. Most of us use maps on our phones and in our cars to help us get around. What you don’t see everyday are maps being used to share dense amounts of information in easily accessible and highly informative ways. Maps can tell a story, or help influence the way we think, even motivate us to help with a cause.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - 8:54am
SSL, or Secure Socket Layer, was first developed by Netscape in the mid-1990's to address the growing need to be able to securely transmit data. It protects data, verifies legitimacy of a website, and is supported by all major browsers. When you log into a banking website, your computer is sent a file called an "SSL certificate" which contains the following data:
Monday, May 7, 2012 - 1:55pm
The Media Initiative is an unofficial but well-supported community initiative to improve Drupal's handling of images, video, audio, and other files and embedded media. This previously-recorded webinar discusses the inconsistencies and problems of handling media in Drupal, and the efforts to improve the authoring experience. Products of these efforts so far include the File Entity and Media modules in Drupal 7, which are demonstrated in this webinar. The Media Initiative is also trying to improve Drupal's default file and media handling by moving much of File Entity into Drupal 8 core.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - 11:45am
Mediacurrent would like to congratulate the Alaska Dispatch for their win of the "2012 Best News/Media Website in Alaska." The Alaska Dispatch has won awards both locally and nationally for their outstanding work completed in 2011. In fact, they have been recognized two years in a row in the Alaska Press Club Awards and The Best of the West Competition.
Monday, April 30, 2012 - 8:07am
Quality Assurance is usually a scary term but it doesn't have to be. In this previously recorded webinar, I'll walk you through five easy steps you can do (and tools you can use) to turn out a better product (web site).
This talk does tie in with Drupal but you don't have to be a Drupal expert. This session should be useful for content admins, themers, developers and just about anybody who has to work on a web site.
Friday, April 27, 2012 - 11:35am
When working on multiple sites and multiple instances of a site more than once, you’ll need to give yourself administrative permissions to the Drupal interface. Rather than tracking down someone who has rights to the site and have them give you permissions why not just use Drush? Drush makes adding users and giving users specific roles such as administration extremely simple.
Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 11:44am
Hundreds of Drupal enthusiasts from across the nation will be coming to Atlanta's Cobb Galleria on October 26th and 27th for the 2012 Atlanta Drupal Business Summit and Drupalcamp Atlanta. Having the event at the Cobb Galleria will allow for more registrants—last year there were over 100 names on the waiting list. Help us spread the word about one of the Southeast's largest Drupalcamps!
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 9:30am
In Part 1 of my article on The Drupal Maintenance Challenge & How to Manage It, I raised some interesting problems inherent to planning out and executing a Drupal website project. Now in Part 2, I will give some advice on how to address these challenges based on what I’ve learned in my time as a web developer.
Monday, April 23, 2012 - 9:36am
Part of being successful with any system is knowing the strengths and weaknesses surrounding its use. As Drupal developers, we frequently immerse ourselves with the strengths; after all, the size of the community and the code it unselfishly provides to others is monumental in of itself. But with as much zeal as we throw toward the things Drupal does well, we should be providing equal focus to the areas where it needs improvement.
Especially those areas which don't involve code.
