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  • Will White
    Feb 19, 2010
    1 comment
    Customizing Maps and Geo Data in Managing News
    Using custom map tiles and open geo data to build a hyper local news tracker
    Managing News ships with its maps and geotagging features preconfigured for tracking global news on a world map. But user interface improvements in Managing News Beta 7 make it easy to use an alternate map layer and import custom location data so...
  • Adrian Rossouw
    Feb 2, 2010
    5 comments
    New Release: Aegir 0.4 Alpha 5
    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...
  • AJ Ashton
    Jan 29, 2010
    4 comments
    Post-Earthquake Map Tiles for Haiti
    Haiti Terrain Maps and OpenStreetMap Tiles on MapBox
    We just added seven new map tilesets of Haiti to MapBox.com, created after the January 12 earthquake. Two of these sets are of terrain baselayers - one is a clean grey tile designed to be overlaid with data visualizations and the other is a terrain...
  • Tom MacWright
    Jul 15, 2009
    Slippy Maps for Better Browsing and Visualization of Dense Data
    Improving Maps for the Federal Education Budget Project
    We just overhauled the maps for the Federal Education Budget Project with new custom slippy maps, using TIGER Census data along with OpenStreetMap data. The new mapping stack lets users browse all the nation’s school districts much faster,...
  • Will White
    Jul 9, 2009
    5 comments
    Rapidly Deploy Open Atrium Sites with Aegir
    Aegir Lets You Provide a New Space for Team Communication at the Drop of a Hat
    Ahead of next week’s Open Atrium release and to highlight some DrupalCon Paris sessions about Open Atrium and Aegir, I put together a screencast that demonstrates how you can use Aegir to rapidly deploy Atrium sites. Check it out: Also,...
  • Young Hahn
    May 29, 2009
    15 comments
    Making and Using Features in Drupal
    An Introduction to the Features Module
    At our presentation A Paradigm for Reusable Drupal Features at DrupalCon DC, we showed the following slide toward the end of the presentation as a blue sky picture of what we thought the future of Features might be. Well, that was March and...
  • Adrian Rossouw
    May 20, 2009
    19 comments
    Aegir From Scratch - Installing Aegir 0.2 RC 1
    A Screencast on How to Install the Aegir Hosting System
    To celebrate the first release candidate of Aegir 0.2, I have put together the following exhaustively complete screencast guiding you through installing the Aegir hosting system. This screencast was made by downloading an Ubuntu server vmware image...
  • Jeff Miccolis
    May 8, 2009
    2 comments
    Salesforce SOQL Integration for Drupal
    Drush and FeedAPI Integration get Salesforce to Speak Drupal
    There can be a lot to learn to get a Drupal site to read custom objects in Salesforce, that is if you’re not a Salesforce consultant. Salesforce has its own way of doing things, but thankfully it also has a thorough API, a flexible SQL-like...
  • Adrian Rossouw
    Apr 20, 2009
    7 comments
    Aegir in action - Watch a screencast of the first alpha of the 0.2 release
    Aegir solves the problem of managing a large number of Drupal sites
    The Aegir project just released the first alpha of the 0.2 release today. You can read the release announcement for more in depth information, but to celebrate, I prepared the following screencast of some of the features contained in this release,...
  • Will White
    Apr 7, 2009
    3 comments
    Swapping Mapping Web Services on the Fly: Mapstraction Views Module for Drupal
    Mapstraction’s Standard API Allows You to Change Your Mapping Provider Without Rewriting Code
    You can now swap your map service from Google Maps to Virtual Earth to Yahoo! and more on the fly with the Mapstraction views plugin. The Mapstraction Project is a library that offers a common API for a lot of the key web-based mapping tools...