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  • Robert Soden
    Dec 21, 2009
    3 comments
    Extending Managing News: New Dashboard Feature

    Tracking the #snowpocalypse with Managing News
    Snowpocalypse! DC Metro closed! Plainclothes cop pulls a gun out at a snowball fight! There was a lot of news to keep track of over the weekend. During the record breaking snowstorm, some people went out to build snowmen, others took walks around...
  • Jeff Miccolis
    Dec 4, 2009
    3 comments
    Strongarm 2: Leaner and Meaner

    New release of Strongarm for Drupal lets modules enforce variable settings

    I've just rolled the first beta release of Strongarm 2. The basic premise of Strongarm is that if we had a "real" variable system in Drupal, we could provide default values for a specific site. In the absence of such a system, we can use Strongarm...
  • Bonnie Bogle
    Dec 1, 2009
    Open Atrium and Developing Killer Features at Do It With Drupal

    Sessions on the latest Open Atrium developments and how Features will change your development workflow
    Eric and Jeff will present two separate sessions on Open Atrium and Features at next week's Do It With Drupal conference. The Open Atrium session will show the latest that Atrium has to offer and give you the scoop on what's coming in the next few...
  • Ian Cairns
    Sep 8, 2009
    2 comments
    The World Bank Launches "Communicate" Intranet on Open Atrium

    Using Open Atrium to deploy a highly custom, enterprise grade intranet solution
    The World Bank's Communicate intranet launched last week on Open Atrium with nearly 1,000 users. Their communications team spread around the world is better positioned to collaborate now that their main communication tool is custom tuned to their...
  • Young Hahn
    Sep 3, 2009
    6 comments
    Five Minute Feature Server: Share Your Features, Themes, and Custom Modules

    Setup a Feature Server fast, then read about what’s coming next
    September 6 2009: Just a few days after this post, dmitri committed a change which makes the drush make format the same syntax as Drupal .info files. I've updated the sample makefile below to reflect this change. In between Open Atrium beta1 and...
  • Jeff Miccolis
    Sep 2, 2009
    1 comment
    Open Atrium at DrupalCon Paris: Thursday, September 3

    Presentation on Open Atrium, building a product with Drupal, and the power of decentralized features
    DrupalCon Paris has been great so far. There is a lot of fantastic work being done by the community as always, some really interesting conversations, and of course it's great to catch up with everyone in person. A lot of people have been talking to...
  • Adrian Rossouw
    Jul 9, 2009
    21 comments
    The Development -> Staging -> Production Workflow Problem in Drupal

    Database Is Silver, Code Is Gold
    Anyone who has developed a relatively complex Drupal site will be able to vouch that, while launching a new site is relatively simple, continuous integration becomes very tricky once the site has actually gone live. This problem becomes especially...
  • Young Hahn
    Jun 26, 2009
    3 comments
    Recipe For a Feature Server

    How the Ingredients Come Together
    Yesterday, Eric talked about how feature servers can help organizations manage and update features on different of sites and I pulled together a screencast of an initial proof-of-concept. While we’ve been talking about these ideas in the...
  • Eric Gundersen
    Jun 25, 2009
    15 comments
    Pushing Public and Private Updates From Your Feature Server

    A First Look at Downloading, Installing, and Updating Features from a Feature Server
    It's common for organizations to run 20+ different program websites. The bulk of these program sites need several of the same features like a public blog, a pressroom, and media resources. A few key programs might need a sensitive CCK-based...
  • Young Hahn
    Jun 24, 2009
    11 comments
    Distributed Feature Servers in Drupal

    Strengthening the Grid of the Drupal Community
    After my previous post introducing Features, people had some very good questions. How can you share features that you’ve built? And how can other users get your features? We think the answer to these questions is to use a feature server. At...