Tag Archives: Drupal

Easiest Movable Type Upgrade Yet

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Karl

Over the years I’ve used Userland Frontier, Userland Manila, Userland Radio, GreyMatter, WordPress, PHP-Nuke, PostNuke, Drupal, and have ran this blog using Movable Type for years. This upgrade was the smoothest yet, probably due to the lack of custom plugins … Continue reading →

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The Onion has migrated to Django from Drupal

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Karl

reddit.com: “The Onion Uses Django, And Why It Matters To Us”

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Whitehouse.gov moves to Drupal

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Karl

Dries Buytaert: Whitehouse.gov using Drupal Tim O’Reilly: Thoughts on the Whitehouse.gov switch to Drupal PDF: WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal Content Here: Is Drupal the right platform for whitehouse.gov? I think you can trace this way back to 2004 and Howard Dean’s … Continue reading →

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Drupal, Alfresco and CMIS – some reading and viewing for today

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Karl

Dries Buytaert: Drupal and Alfresco Jeff Potts: Screencast: Alfresco-Drupal CMIS Integration Demo Jared Ottleys: Using Alfresco to manage blog content

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Must Read: David Cohn’s “Drupal Nation: Software to Power the Left”

Posted on December 30, 2008 by Karl

David Cohn has published to his blog his final project to graduate with a Masters from Columbia’s journalism school – a report on the technology and people behind the Dean campaign of 2004 – Drupal Nation: Software to Power the … Continue reading →

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Upgrading Drupal Screencast

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Karl

Mastering Drupal: Upgrading to Drupal 6

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Well that’s one hack down

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Karl

I’ve started to use Contemplate for Philly Future to modify outgoing RSS. Previously I was modifying template.module directly to inject to default categories into every item’s RSS node. Hacking up core modules is a no-no.

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lang:groovy – extend your Spring app with scripting

Posted on May 26, 2008 by Karl

The Spring Framework offers many ways to ease application development and maintenance, but one that gets my interest really going is its dynamic language support. codehaus: Dynamic language beans in Spring codehaus: Groovy and JMX raible designs: Using Dynamic Languages … Continue reading →

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Been Nutso Busy

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Karl

Sorry for the sudden lack of conversing and blogging as of late. My day job has been keeping me really busy. That, along with physical therapy (which has stalled btw – I’m going to try epidural steroid injections next), has … Continue reading →

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atom2rss: a poorly written Atom to RSS converter

Posted on November 28, 2005 by Karl

Not to vent, but Blogspot’s default of outputting Atom and no RSS for its users gave me all sorts of headaches. A huge expense in time that that drove me away from more important matters at Philly Future. CivicSpace/Drupal’s aggregator … Continue reading →

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