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Choosing the Right Tool for the Job

At CentreSource, we have a motto that “outcomes always outweigh the output.”  Through this, we try to focus on meeting the individual goals of our clients, versus focusing on the process of how they get done.  One goal we often hear is that our clients would like an easy way to update the website themselves. …

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DrupalCon 2008: Popular Science Magazine Case Study

The folks at pingVision have posted their case study for the Popular Science Magazine website on drupal.org. I attended this session and left it feeling very inspired. It was amazing to see what this small crew did with such a behemoth of a site. Just the thought of having to migrate a 1.66GB Oracle DB…

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John VanDyk – DrupalCon 2008 Triggers and Actions and Hooks, Oh My!

John VanDyk, author of Pro Drupal Development, and longtime Drupal developer/guru, has posted the slides and video of the presentation he gave at DrupalCon on triggers and actions. It was great presentation from one of Drupal’s founding fathers. Though centered around Drupal 6, many of the basic principals can be applied to Drupal 5′s Actions…

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Using Doctrine in Drupal now!!

In my last post I talked about the possibility of Doctrine being in the core of Drupal 7. After some thought, and a little bit of work, I realized this is not necessary. Doctrine can be used in Drupal now with a custom module I wrote. It comes with schema files and models for the…

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Doctrine & Drupal 7.0

The Drupal 7 development has started in the last couple of weeks and the Doctrine bug has been planted in the ear of the Drupal development team. Hopefully the power of Doctrine can be recognized and utilized to take Drupal and Doctrine both to the next level. You can find the discussion between myself and…

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Drupal Wins Overall 2007 Open Source CMS Award

At CentreSource, much of our web development utilizes the Drupal open source content management system. From custom websites to large scale corporate websites, Drupal offers many modules for flexibility, personalization, and customizable URLs that are search engine and end user friendly. The technical definition of Drupal is: Drupal is a web-based content management system. Text…

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Mambo vs. Joomla

As we use and deploy more CMS software, we have been increasingly wondering what the differences exactly between Mambo and Joomla are. I knew that Joomla was a fork of Mambo, but I wasn’t clear on why they forked. Fortunately, I found this excellent article that takes a tour of the turmoil and history surrounding…