Blogs
Drupal Site Security - Jakub Suchy
Blogged by Steve Parks on Monday, 1 April 2010
Jakob is talking about improving security on Drupal sites. He says you can't just assume that your site won't be a target because its small, or specialist. All sites are a target.
You can be targetted by botnets, the competition, your own employees, prestige (depending on your status), and simply because its fun to hack. Here are Jakob's tips for better security:
Basic standards: Avoid FTP at all costs. Use SSH, SFTP, https.
On the server use Linux, run PHP as fastcgi not mod_php (unless nobody else is using the server). >> READ MORE
Geo-Parsing - Andrew Larcome
Blogged by Steve Parks on Monday, 1 April 2010
Geo-coding is taking structured data such as an address and producing a Latitude-Longitude from it. Geo Parsing is different. It takes unstructured content, such as a newspaper article, and seeks to pull out geographical information from it.
There are 3 distinct phases of geo-parsing: >> READ MORE
Email Newsletters, Robert Castelo
Blogged by Steve Parks on Monday, 1 April 2010
Robert is one of the most actve people in the UK Drupal community. He's talking about the Email Newsletter module (http://drupal.org/project/enewsletter) he's been developing over a number of years (since version 4.5 in fact!). He hasn't updated it for some time, but with support from Microsoft under a special project called Drupal for NGOs he's soon to launch it for Drupal 6.
He walks the delegates through an example installation of the module at the Clearspring website at http://www.clearspring.co.uk.
Here are the key features of the module: >> READ MORE
The UK Drupal 'Volcano' Conference
Blogged by Steve Parks on Monday, 1 April 2010
The hard-to-pronounce-let-alone-spell Icelandic volcano has brought an end to the travel plans of the UK Drupal community set to go to this year's Drupalcon. But the inability to get to the main event in San Francisco isn't stopping them from getting together to talk Drupal.
It's Monay night, 6pm, and around 50 UK Drupal folk are gathering at the UK HQ of Google, near Victoria, for an impromptu UK DrupalCon - dubbed the DrupalVolCon.
I'm going to be blogging the events over the next 3 evenings, as they happen. >> READ MORE
Turning a menu into two columns
Blogged by Steve Cowie on Thursday, 4 March 2010
I've recently been asked twice to drupalize a design where the menu navigation comes in two columns. Of course the visual designer does it the easy way of having two unordered lists but that won't work for a Drupal menu because it's generated as a single list. So here's a fix for using the primary links menu but having it render as two columns.
First I thought about doing this inside the page pre-processor function in the theme template.php so you do do something like this: >> READ MORE
Drupal Hits The Bigtime
Blogged by Steve Parks on Thursday, 4 March 2010
Something is changing in the relationship between clients and agencies in the UK Drupal community.
Previously, when giving a client pitch, we'd have to explain what Drupal is and why that's good. We'd have to explain the advantages over proprietary systems, and we'd have to explain our view on why Drupal was superior to other open source systems too.
Now, however, we're finding that clients are increasingly coming to us and specifically asking for Drupal. The process they've gone through to send out their RFPs is: >> READ MORE
Meet The Team
Blogged by Kamila Miara on Saturday, 6 January 2010
These are the member of the UK Drupal community who worked on the Mountain Rescue webste - see other blog posts for details...
Progress on the Mountain Rescue website
Blogged by Steve Parks on Saturday, 6 January 2010
It's now nearly 8pm on Saturday, and I now have wifi access in a cafe (we've been without access at the mountain rescue centre) - so it's time for a quick roundup of progress.
* We scoped out the user stories with the head of the mountain rescue team to make sure we build the site that best suits the needs of their visitors and staff.
* A local dev server was set up by Alice, Stephen Mount, and Dan giving us a drupal 6.15 codebase to build the site on, plus an installation of Atrium for project management. >> READ MORE
UK Drupal Weekend - Taking on the challenge
Blogged by Steve Parks on Saturday, 6 January 2010
As you may have read in Kamila's previous post, we're part of a group of UK Drupal developers who have volunteered to spend the weekend developing a new website for the Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue team, in the Lake District. >> READ MORE
Building a site in a weekend for Mountain Rescue
Blogged by Kamila Miara on Saturday, 6 January 2010
A group of Drupallers have got together to work for a higher cause – to update, simplify and revamp the website of Langdale/Ambleside Mountain Rescue. All keen, all volunteers, all in one weekend; I’ll keep you updated on what’s happening here in the Langdale/Ambleside Mountain Rescue premises:
The project starts with a meeting in the Mountain Rescue Premises and with a lot of coffee. >> READ MORE
