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Accessible user interfaces

For readers in a digital age, interaction with content is ubiquitous. We no longer interact with content through paper, e-readers, or tailored apps alone, but via millions of digital products and web properties designed to streamline our consumption. In recent …

Documentation strategy for a small software project: launching VoIP Drupal introductions

VoIP Drupal is a window onto the promises and challenges faced by a new open source project, including its documentation. A meeting at at MIT this week worked out some long-term plans for firming up VoIP Drupal's documentation and other training materials.

Documentation strategy for a small software project: launching VoIP Drupal introductions

VoIP Drupal is a window onto the promises and challenges faced by a new open source project, including its documentation. A meeting at at MIT this week worked out some long-term plans for firming up VoIP Drupal's documentation and other training materials.

Developer Year in Review: 2011 Edition

It's time for our annual look back at the year that was, when mobile ruled the world, HTML5 PWNED Flash, Drupal and Hadoop were the hot buzzwords for your resume, and a new batch of languages tried to become stars.

VoIP Drupal reaches out to the developing world

The VoIP modules form a door through which Drupal can move into a vast world of touch tone telephones, smart telephones, and text messaging, and therefore toward integrating a huge range of users in developing regions who use those technologies instead of desktop or laptop computers.

Energy.gov relaunches using open source and the cloud

The new Energy.gov, using a combination of open source technology and cloud computing, will save an estimated $10 million annually.

Energy.gov relaunches using open source and the cloud

The new Energy.gov, using a combination of open source technology and cloud computing, will save an estimated $10 million annually.

Four short links: 27 April 2011

Aaargh! Physicists! --the dangers of venturing outside your area of expertise is that someone will mercilessly point out your overconfident missteps, as happens here. Unless, of course, your new field is social media, in which case there are hundreds of thousands of sycophantic circlejerkers ready to retweet, link back, and Like your misbegotten ill-conceived content-free mindless dribblings. Crowdsourcing to...

Phase2 acquires two more Drupal distributions

Open Atrium and Managing News join OpenPublic and OpenPublish in Phase2 Technology's Drupal distributions.

House.gov moves to Drupal

In another win for open source, the United States House of Representatives has chosen Drupal for its web content management system.

Energy.gov to move to Drupal

Energy.gov and all of the websites from the department's program offices will relaunch using Drupal next spring.

Getting Drupal and mod_security to Play Nicely Together on Red Hat 5.x Servers

Deploying Drupal on an Apache web server with mod_security or adding mod_security to an Apache server with Drupal running should be as easy as installing the relevant packages. Unfortunately, on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4 and 5.5 servers it just isn't so.

Four short links: 24 June 2010

Crowdsourcing the Goldman-Sachs Investigation (Crowdflower) -- Goldman-Sachs turned over "several hundred billion pages" of documents in response to a government investigation request. Crowdsourcing may be the solution, as with UK MPs' expenses. Clearly, technology presents a double-edged sword for investigators and other regulators. On the one hand, companies under investigation can use technology to more efficiently bury investigators in...

Four short links: 22 April 2010

Whitehouse Released Open Source Code -- four modules for Drupal with features the White House needed, including integration with the Akamai CDN. Android on iPhone -- it's like constructing an apartment building out of lasagne: an astonishing feat of engineering, even if it's not ultimately useful for anything. (via waxy) A Practical Guide to Geostatistical Mapping -- covers R,...

Top Drupal Gotchas, #2: White Screen / Not Enough PHP Memory

Continuing my effort to spare newcomers to Drupal from falling into this powerful content management system's most common traps, this time I look at a frequent cause of white screens - the sudden and scary devolution of a previously healthy...

Top Drupal Gotchas: "Access Denied" and Permissions Problems

The Drupal Content Management System keeps getting better and better. But the learning curve is still steep and the interface is still tricky - even after working with it for several years, some gotchas keep tripping me up. That tells...

Thoughts on the Whitehouse.gov switch to Drupal

Yesterday, the new media team at the White House announced via the Associated Press that whitehouse.gov is now running on Drupal, the open source content management system. That Drupal implementation is in turn running on a Red Hat Linux system with Apache, MySQL and the rest of the LAMP stack. Apache Solr is the new White House search engine. This...

Drupal and Dreamweaver's Jekyll and Hyde Problem

There was a discussion going on internally at O'Reilly spawned by an email from Tim O'Reilly pointing editors at a post commented on at Slashdot about a blog post made by a web designer: Dreamweaver is Dying, Long Live Drupal. (Original post is here).

XProc: XML Pipelines and RESTful Services

Anyone who has used languages such as XSLT should have a pretty fair idea about the complexities involved in treating XML as a programming language itself - it's verbose, forces thinking into a declarative model that can be at odds with the C-based languages currently used by most programmers, can be difficult to read, and as a syntax it doesn't always fit well with the requirements in establishing parameter signatures and related structures.

XProc: XML Pipelines and RESTful Services

Anyone who has used languages such as XSLT should have a pretty fair idea about the complexities involved in treating XML as a programming language itself - it's verbose, forces thinking into a declarative model that can be at odds with the C-based languages currently used by most programmers, can be difficult to read, and as a syntax it doesn't always fit well with the requirements in establishing parameter signatures and related structures.

Is Dreamweaver being beaten by Drupal?

In 1997, I was at the Macromedia User's Conference to give a talk on creating "intelligent" agents within Macromedia Director. At this particular conference, Macromedia announced a new product called Dreamweaver, an HTML editing application that exercised a profound effect upon the web development community.

Getting Started With Drupal

Once upon a time, website programming was a fairly arduous proposition. You could spend months putting together the various back end processing pages in ASP or PHP or Perl, writing included files that, if you were thoughtful about it, may contain some reuse, but overall writing such code by hand almost invariably meant that the code was not only very targeted to one particular use but was an absolute nightmare to maintain.

Podcast: Marketing Your Flex App with Mike Potter

In this podcast I chat with Mike Potter from the Flex marketing team about marketing your Flex application, what's new in Flex 3 as well as open source as it relates to the Flex world.