Technology
18 May 2011
This Friday at 8:00 a.m. I will be chatting with Gary Vaughn on The Collaboration Tech Talk Show over on BlogTalkRadio.com.
In the interview, we will explore under what circumstances an organization should consider adopting collaboration technology; the costs and benefits of using open source vs...
29 Jan 2011
Having attended the last few U.S.-based DrupalCons, the upcoming Chicago event is easily the most exciting. Why is that? In a word, Drupal 7. Okay, maybe that's two words. Architecturally, it's a huge shift involving a new database layer, a new rendering layer, better form handling...the list goes...
15 Jul 2010
Several battles have been brewing from within the WordPress community.
It's WordPress, not Wordpress dangit!
A couple weeks ago, a snippet of code got sneaked into WordPress 3.0. The function, capital_P_dangit, is a filter that replaces "Wordpress" with "WordPress" throughout...
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, ...
14 Jun 2010
In my last post, I glossed over MongoDB from a very high level. While it's useful to know how MongoDB works, I didn't cover exactly how to use it.
There are a growing number of NoSQL systems, and one of MongoDB's greatest strengths is its ease-of-use. It takes a couple of minutes to install the...
8 Jun 2010
MongoDB is one of the forerunners in the NoSQL movement, an effort to promote non-relational, schema-free data stores. It lacks any table JOINs, which avoids performance bottlenecks seen with traditional SQL servers.
Why NoSQL?
NoSQL servers are not meant to replace traditional SQL ...
17 May 2010
This week I'm participating in the Tek-X conference, one of the bigger PHP conferences (along with ZendCon) around.
I'm looking forward to some pretty epic geekery on the language itself, as well as scaling with MongoDB, battling users who attempt to "game" your system, and general OO PHP...
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...
25 Mar 2010
One thing becomes clear if you use Drupal for a while... the built-in search is poor. This isn't unexpected, as search is a a hard problem to solve. And the best way to get around hard problems is to find someone who has done it well and use their work.
There are a number of products out there,...
