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Cloud Interoperability Discussions
POSTED 12/4/2008 by Jonathan Lambert

Ruven made a really great post about cloud interoperability today:

Multiple Themes on your Drupal Install
POSTED 12/3/2008 by Nick Russell

I was just encountered with the need to have a multi-site drupal install which utilized a specific theme for each site. In a lot of cases, multi-sites are set up on one drupal install, but utilize individual databases for each site.

Moving an SVN repository from a hosted service
POSTED 12/2/2008 by Aaron Stewart
So during a routine project setup, we had a need to move a SVN repository hosted on Unfuddle to another provider (in this case, Beanstalk).
Session Issues with Drupal on Safari
POSTED 12/2/2008 by Nick Russell
It has been talked a lot that people are experiencing issues with their user's sessions on their drupal sites in Safari. Most experience the same issue: A user logs in, tries to create content and are kicked / logged out and taken to the homepage
YourSphere case study
POSTED 12/2/2008 by

Workhabit customer YourSphere was featured recently in a case study on Drupal.org.

Form validation - what makes sense?
POSTED 11/19/2008 by
We just had an impromptu conversation over here about validating phone numbers that morphed into validating email addresses and more.
Drupal is all about the people - Information Week
POSTED 11/19/2008 by
Information Week has an article that looks at [how success has been achieved by Drupal](http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/open_source/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212002359) and Alfresco by integrating social and collaboration features into the products.
Komodo 5 sluggishness in OSX
POSTED 11/17/2008 by
Komodo is a great cross-platform IDE. But I've noticed that as file size increases, Komodo's performance slows to a crawl, becoming practically unusable once files hit 2.5k lines or so.
Theory: When users control the conversation, the role of experts tends to be downplayed.
POSTED 11/11/2008 by Jonathan Lambert

When users control the conversation, there is an interesting tendency for the elevation of users as experts based on contribution.

Checking node_access through the API
POSTED 11/6/2008 by
Deane Barker at Gadgetopia asked about how to access the content access APIs for different CMSs. He emailed me to find out if I might be able provide an example for Drupal.
Grepping through repo directories (aka the ".svn/" problem)
POSTED 11/3/2008 by

It's super annoying when you're looking for a string in your code, so you do a recursive grep, only to get a ton of matches within svn's ".svn" directories.

Here's a solution:

Inside your ~/.bash_profile, insert this line:

Whiteboards everywhere
POSTED 10/24/2008 by
We just got finished installing floor to ceiling whiteboards around some of the offices and common spaces in the Sacramento office. Here's how you can do it without spending thousands of dollars on large whiteboards.
APIs & Cloud Computing
POSTED 9/29/2008 by Jonathan Lambert
Here's a question that's given me a lot of trouble. I have Joyent, a company that is largely based on Open Solaris, claiming to be a Cloud Provider.
Amazon AWS & Drupal at DrupalCampLA
POSTED 9/14/2008 by
My session on Amazon AWS & Drupal at DrupalCampLA. We're walking out the door at DrupalCamp, so I'll get more details up shortly.
Presentations from Drupal Camp LA: Creating APIs, Scaling Drupal, and Drupal Cloud Computing
POSTED 9/14/2008 by

Just back from Drupal Camp LA, where I ended up giving three talks. It was fantastic to see several hundred people come out to a Drupal event over the weekend.

DrupalCamp LA invasion
POSTED 9/11/2008 by

Jon mentioned we'd be at Drupal Camp LA this weekend, but he didn't mention what all we're doing and how big of an event this really is

Come see WorkHabit at DrupalCampLA 2008
POSTED 9/8/2008 by Jonathan Lambert

You want to attend Drupal events that matter, and DrupalCampLA 2008 already has more than 270 attendees registered. If the pattern holds for Drupal events, the last week will include a lot of last minute registrations, making this a larger non-DrupalCon events.

Suggestion: NLP produced keywords for twitter to enable more sophisticated taxonomy mapping for large-scale twitter applications
POSTED 9/3/2008 by Jonathan Lambert

Twitter won't work with my social network, because my social network relies on keyword taxonomies. So, right now, it's easy to associate twitter with a profile, because it's a 1-1 relationship. And I can build a twitter channel (#workhabitinc) for example, to pull from multiple twitter feeds.

Introducing WorkHabit's Elastic2: Drupal, Clouds, and Managed Services
POSTED 9/1/2008 by

For the last few months here at WorkHabit we've been busily creating a new kind of hosting platform. We've taken our expertise in scaling, hosting, and managing Drupal web sites and and layered that on top of cloud computing.

TrendSpotting: Something Called "Callcasting" Is Starting To Get Traction, And You've Probably Never Heard Of It
POSTED 9/1/2008 by Jonathan Lambert

It seems every year there is a trend that pops up that I didn't realized was "hip" until I read it in someone else's blog. Ajax was one of those trends, a 5-6 year old technology that just blew up overnight and became a phenomenon.