I got stoked on Typography and you can too (if you're at SXSW)

A few days ago, I sat in on a presentation on Typography from one of our designers, Samantha Warren. It was a run through of the talk she is giving today at SXSW. To be truthful, I wasn't that interested in typography before, but the talk really inspired me to rethink type everywhere I see it - from liquor bottles to cars to posters in the Metro.

Configuring Spring Security with Active Directory and Concurrent Session Control

We build upon a previous post to demonstrate how to use Active Directory for authentication and prevent users from logging in more than once

Spring Security: the Basics

This is the first in a series of posts that will demonstrate how build a customized Spring Security solution.

NodeBolt Module

New module released to make you think twice before deleting certain nodes.

Phase2 Drupalcon 2010 Proposed Session Topics

Session voting for Drupalcon 2010 in San Francisco started today and I am very proud of the great entries that our team at Phase2 has prepared for the conference. In total our team proposed 13 sessions that cover 5 of the 6 categories and run the complete range from business topics to graphic design, architecture and code development. We would love your vote and chance to share what we have learned this past year.

Drupal in Government Part 1: Five government sites using Drupal effectively for open government initiatives

Why is Drupal important to the the Federal government? That is the main topic I will cover in a 3 part guest blog series on GovFresh. GovFresh works to inspire government-citizen collaboration and build a more engaged democracy. It features Gov 2.0, open gov news, guides, TV, tech, people and official U.S. government feeds, all in one place.

The first post Five government sites using Drupal effectively for open government initiatives provides some high profile examples of who is using Drupal effectively in government and why Drupal is a great fit for what these sites are trying to achieve.

My second post will focus on the unique aspects of providing web content management for government that are relevant for Drupal (i.e. what can Drupal learn from Government?) And my final post will provide ideas and predictions for the future of Drupal within the Federal government.

Hibernate C3P0 Connection Pool Config Changes

Hibernate no longer uses the c3p0 connection pool automagically in response to setting a few c3p0 config properties. You have to explicitly tell it to use c3p0 now.

CSS Specificity Scoring

Most folks realize what the "cascading" part of Cascading Style Sheets means for styling Web pages. However, some of the inner workings of CSS specificity are lost on many of them. Especially when it comes to those maddening CSS selectors that should be taking effect, but aren't.

Groovy: Quick and Easy Scripting

Groovy provides a viable (hipper? More modern?) alternative to shell scripting and/or Perl.

What Does the Open Government Directive Look Like?

On the first anniversary of the President's inauguration, I wanted to share some thoughts about the historic Open Government Initiative and discuss the implementation details of last month's Open Government Directive. Since we are developers, we wanted to do more than talk and write about what open government is, we are interested in how it actually looks and works to a user on the web. So we prepared some mock-ups for this purpose and shared it around town. This mock-up demonstrates both our concept for the user interface and content of a great /open site, but also prototypes what a simple approach to open government data and communications could be through a templated installation of Drupal we would like to build if some agency wants one?