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  • Jeff Miccolis
    Feb 3, 2010
    7 comments
    Exportable and Spaces-Friendly Blocks in Drupal with the Boxes Module
    The new Boxes modules provides custom blocks that play nicely with Spaces and Ctools
    Earlier this week I added the Boxes module, which provides custom blocks that play nicely with Spaces and Ctools, to Drupal.org. I initially wrote the module for recent work we did on the World Bank's Open Atrium-based intranet, and at first I wasn'...
  • Jeff Miccolis
    Jan 12, 2010
    20 comments
    The Future of Open Atrium: Beta 4 Release and Beyond
    New processes, the Beta 4 release, and what's coming in the stable release
    In a few weeks we will release the next beta of Open Atrium. This will be our fourth beta, and it will have a bit more meat than some of the other releases, which I'll go into later in this post. So far Open Atrium has been downloaded more than 80,...
  • Young Hahn
    Dec 18, 2009
    6 comments
    Spaces 3: Customize Everything, for Anything, in Drupal
    New architecture makes contextual overrides transparent to site builders
    "Spaces 3 has vast improvements but it continues - per mission - to screw with your mind :-)" - Alex Barth Over the past few weeks we've been working on an experimental branch of Spaces that we're now ready to call Spaces 3. Spaces is an API...
  • Ian Cairns
    Apr 2, 2009
    4 comments
    Oxfam Uses 8Trees and Drupal to Test New Organizing Strategies During G20
    Pushing the Limits of Team Management with 8Trees
    Oxfam Great Britain needed a tool to help them collaborate online with their geographically dispersed team and some of its partners during the G20 event happening right now. 8Trees, our Drupal-based project management/knowledge management tool, acts...
  • Ian Ward
    Mar 3, 2009
    1 comment
    One Blog, One Pressroom, and One Photo Gallery, coming right up!
    Get your features while they're hot
    This Thursday, Young Hahn, Robert Soden, and myself will share with you in our DrupalCon presentation how we build websites in less time by making what we’re calling “prefabricated features”. Not only will we give a formal...
  • Robert Soden
    Mar 2, 2009
    2 comments
    Context, Spaces, and Organic Groups
    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...
  • Robert Soden
    Feb 14, 2009
    2 comments
    Defining Spaces Features in Code in Drupal
    Export Your Feature Definitions Into Custom Modules
    This screencast will look at how to export your feature definitions into custom modules so you never have to build a blog from scratch again. This doesn’t mean every site you build will look and work the same, just that you can cut down on the...
  • Robert Soden
    Jan 30, 2009
    4 comments
    Building a "Blog Feature" in Drupal with Context and Spaces
    Recipe for a Drupal Blog
    Earlier this week, Young showed off some of the efficiency wins we got out of using Context and Spaces to cut down on repetitive tasks during site builds. We’ll be running a series of posts over the next month that show how we got there. The...
  • Young Hahn
    Jan 28, 2009
    5 comments
    Spaces: A Paradigm for Reusable Drupal Features
    How Feature Definitions Interact with Spaces for Robust, Reusable Site Building
    We’ve spent a lot of time as a team building similar and sometimes identical Drupal features for different projects. When you think about the Drupal community as a whole, you can just imagine the number of times someone has taken these steps...
  • Ian Ward
    Nov 3, 2008
    5 comments
    Improving Knowledge Management at the World Bank with Drupal
    Creating Group Work Spaces Using Organic Groups, Spaces & Context
    We recently upgraded the knowledge management system of the World Bank’s communications team. We had worked with their team two years ago to build the system – then meant to facilitate internal communications and keep everyone informed on...