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  • Feb 9, 2010
    Everything you need to know to render and edit styles yourself
    I recently added new documentation explaining how to use stylesheets with MapBox, our open source toolset to create custom maps in the cloud, by walking through how we created the DC Nightvision tiles. If you're interested in creating your own...
  • Details on the new Aegir alpha release, how to install it, and what's coming next
    Last week the Aegir project released the latest alpha in the 0.4 release cycle. The most important features of this release are compatibility oriented, and we now have working support for Drupal 7 installs and upgrades, as well as support for...
  • Jan 22, 2010
    Today SlingshotSMS has a new release for Mac and Windows and a lot of new documentation. Most importantly, it now produces RSS 2.0, works with a larger variety of modems, and can auto-connect to new devices. Using SlingshotSMS is a lot smoother now...
  • Open Atrium reviewed as a tool for group communication and collaboration
    UPDATE: The full article is now available online. Open Atrium is featured in the December issue of Linux Magazine as a tool that facilitates group communication and collaboration. In the five page article, Marcel Gagné looks at how Open Atrium can...
  • Sep 16, 2009
    Community Site Has a Collaborative Documentation Space and a Better Case Tracker
    We've just launched community.openatrium.com, a new hub for the Open Atrium community. From the day we released Open Atrium, we knew that we'd need a proper place for users and developers to go to collaborate. Until now, we've been using the issue...
  • Mar 2, 2009
    A painless approach to building customizable, per-group feature sets
    Over the last month we’ve done a series of blogposts and screencasts that convey an approach to speeding up site building using Context and Spaces to create reusable Drupal ‘features’. We’ve talked about how to build...
  • When I first approached help edit there was just one real change I had in mind, however the more I worked on it the more I saw I wanted to do. Before I had even begun working on the module Ian had already made a change to it which made path aliases...
  • Oct 31, 2005
    Since September I’ve been working on extending the under utilized Drupal Help Edit module. The module was designed to display custom help messages on pages in a site, in addition to the standard Drupal help. It was designed to be easy to use...
  • Aug 26, 2005
    Things have been and still are quite 'shop-ish' these days, meaning long hours in the shop working on some exciting sites. Therefore, apologies if this post is a bit 'shop-ish'. The discussion starts where Eric and I are talking about HelpEdit not...