Technology
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...
20 Sep 2011
When it comes to communication channels...
The PC is a bit like George Clooney — been around a long time, tried and true, and still very relevant.
But mobile is a bit more like Ryan Gosling. There were some early fans/adopters, but everyone is just starting to take...
14 Sep 2011
30% social network usage is from mobile (source)
Mobile matters. This is true for nonprofits and commercial organizations alike. It isn’t just about mobile’s projected market growth, it is also about its impact potential.
If the key to an effective communications strategy is...
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...
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...
16 Mar 2010
Creating a plugin in WordPress is easier than you might think. There are currently over 8,500 plugins in the wordpress.org repository (not including paid plugins), so that should say something.
For starters, WordPress has a fairly extensive plugin API system, granting you the ability to hook into...
17 Dec 2009
WordPress 2.9 is ramping up support for custom post types. It's an improvement, but not nearly as exciting as you've probably been led to believe.
For starters, what is a custom post type in WordPress?
WordPress ships with 4 post types: post, page, revision, and attachment. WP uses a single table...
8 Oct 2009
I recently upgraded Eclipse PDT to the most recent version, and I decided to figure out something that had been bugging me: why couldn't Eclipse use a project I'd already checked out via the command line to the same workspace?
A colleague suggested that I could indeed do it, and that I just needed...
26 Apr 2009
There's a lot of people out there wanting to keep up with Congress.
Many people just want to know what their representatives are doing in Congress, how they're voting, and who they're interacting with. Unfortunately, that's pretty hard to find, especially from several different angles.
We at Forum...
10 Oct 2008
Although it is still in beta and not available to the general public, Yahoo! will be rolling out its own web analytics service in the near future. The service addresses some perceived shortcomings of Google's Analytics package. First, Yahoo! will provide data in near-real time, which can be a...
