drupal

On containing risk vs getting things done

jonathan — Tue, 25 May 2010 19:32:32 +0000

Drupal as a framework doesn’t lend itself well to detailed specifications — and many projects try very hard to do them to “contain risk” and get “a clear and exact” deliverable. read more »

CDN2 Updates and Fixes

aaron — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:01:29 +0000

We’ve been getting reports of intermittent issues with transcoding on our CDN2 service.

After digging around for a while, we’ve found an issue where messages are not getting delivered through Amazon SQS to our transcode nodes.

The good news is that as of tomorrow morning, we’ll be deploying CDN2 to a new scaleable infrastructure that removes the Amazon dependencies. This move will improve performance and stabillity of video uploads and transcoding. read more »

New Script: Are you dealing with a hacked drupal core?

aaron — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:15:35 +0000

Whenever a group of us WorkHabit folks are sitting around the virtual watercooler reviewing upcoming projects, one of the first questions we need to answer is about the quality of the code we're starting with.

The big question we always want to know is this: Is core hacked? And how badly?

After doing this manually several times, I decided to cut to the chase and write a script for it.

The bash script to do this is at the bottom of this post. Just save it as iscorehacked.sh, mark it executable, and have at it. read more »

AutoTagging Content with Drupal

aaron — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:56:39 +0000

Today marks the first beta version of our Drupal AutoTagging module.

This has been a long time in the works, and included several conversations between myself and Frank Febbraro, the creator of the original autotagging project and maintainer on the OpenCalais module, which this initiative is designed to facilitate.

The goal of this project:

Provide a pluggable framework for fetching taxonomy (tag) information from third party services.

The initial release of the project supports three different tagging services: read more »

User registration pages - a case study

domenic — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:17:29 +0000

Sometimes an afterthought, sometimes the only good-looking page on a site: registration pages are the heart and soul of user participation. Maximizing the completion rate and minimizing abandonment of your signup form is a crucial part of getting users talking, especially if you don't allow anonymously posted content on your site (an increasingly common thing as spam continues to flourish).

Web 2.0 ushered in a lot of changes to registration pages, the most notable concept being simplicity. This is the executive summary: read more »

Rupal, the new Community-Powered CMS

domenic — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:06:29 +0000

For those eagerly awaiting the next member of the Drupal family, WorkHabit is proud to announce Rupal, the CMS designed exclusively for our valued cross-dressing community members.

Core modules include automatic pronoun feminization, rounded corners on everything, and auto-filtering of "it's a trap!" comments. Over 9,000 hours have been put into lovingly crafting the first community release. read more »

oAuth Working in Drupal

kylebrowning — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:29:46 +0000

Over the past few months I have been working on a project to release at Drupalcon DC. One of the various tasks for getting this project working was to find an easy way to incorporate an oAuth server into Drupal.

There is a video here. read more »

New version of Drupal EC2 AMI released

ann — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:56:06 +0000

We're happy to announce that the latest version of our free Drupal AMI has been released: Drupal AMI 1.0 RC1, AWS ID ami-2a8a6d43. Like the previous version of our AMI, it will allow you to install any version of Drupal that you like, at the click of a button.

What's new in this version? At the request of our users, this AMI comes pre-installed with several packages that are dependencies used by many popular Drupal modules, including pear, screen, php-soap, Crypt_HMAC, and mcrypt (both the package and the apache configuration). read more »

CDN2 for Drupal 6

akalsey — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:16:47 +0000

We’ve had a great response to CDN2, our video platform for Drupal. The number one request so far was to make a Drupal 6 compatible version. I’m happy to announce that CDN2 is now available for Drupal 6 on the Drupal.org project page.

Google Docs Integration with Drupal

jonathan — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:11:07 +0000

So, for a while now, we at WorkHabit have been wanting to integrate two of our favorite tools: Google Docs, and Drupal.