Web Development

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.

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.

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.

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?

Panels is one of those Drupal modules that engenders a range of feelings around here.  Some people love it -- interface configurable layout! -- and some hate it -- difficult to manage .5em gutters.  But it, and Chaos Tools which it is based on, provide a great deal of useful functionality.  The problem is there is very little documentation on how to extend it beyond what's distributed in code.  The basics of extending Panels/CTools is pretty easy, you just implement the hook_ctools_plugin_directory to tell it where to look for your files, e.g.