Technology
23 Jan 2012
We recently had the pleasure of working with the awesome folks at GovLoop on an information architecture and design project. The purpose: to give GovLoop a quick facelift and use the Ning API to develop new “community pages” to make it easier for users to find content on key topics...
26 Sep 2011
Here is a list of my favorite Drupal tools that aid in developing, managing, and maintaining a Drupal website.
Drush
Versions supported: All Drupal versions
To quote the module description for drush:
"Drush is a command line shell and scripting interface for Drupal, a veritable Swiss Army...
9 Sep 2011
Most Drupal developers are familiar with the Nodequeue module.
It gives developers the ability to set up groups of nodes, called "queues". Clients can add nodes to these groups, and use the drag-n-drop interface to order the nodes as desired. It gives clients a lot more control over which...
1 Nov 2010
If you're using Acquia Search or a self-hosted ApacheSolr search instance, you've already noticed that the default listing leaves a lot to be desired. Fortunately, it's not extremely difficult to make these results look exactly the way you want.
For starters, I'm assuming that Views 3 is already...
31 Aug 2010
We recently rolled out a new version control process, which we feel will better support our increasing project complexity.
Previously, our live sites used trunk, and our work took place on a single dev branch. This was problematic because it was sometimes difficult to separate the tested-and-ready-...
12 Jul 2010
There has been a lot of (virtual) ink spilled over HipHop, Facebook's new PHP-to-C compiler; but a similar approach has flown a little more under the radar. I'm talking about Quercus, a PHP interpreter/compiler written in Java by Caucho, the makers of the Resin app server.
Quercus is a...
24 Jun 2010
One frequent request we get from clients is to integrate their Drupal web site user profiles with a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system so that their users' information can be used for email messaging and other purposes.
We've worked with a variety of CRMs including CiviCRM, ...
4 May 2010
While at the 2010 DrupalCon San Francisco last week, I had the pleasure of attending Katherine Lynch's session on Accessibility in Drupal 6 & 7. The issue of accessibility is a very important one, especially given the large demographic of users with disabilities. Approximately 20 percent of...
2 May 2010
One of our goals at Forum One is to help our clients achieve a higher level of collaboration. The effective exchange of knowledge is one of the hurdles separating a good organization (or open-source project) from a great one.
An open-source project is only as good as its underlying community. This...
22 Apr 2010
After attending last week's PhoneGap training session in Washington, DC I have finally made that frightening step into mobile application development. Why was it frightening? Well, it was the expectation that I needed to face another steep learning curve just to get that infamous "Hello World...
