Frank Febbraro Talking CDN at DC Drupal Meetup on 9/13

CDN, DC Drupal Meetup, drupal

Tiffany:

Frank will do a brief talk about Phase2's work with CDN at the next DC Drupal Meetup. Hope to see you there: Monday, September 13th at 7 PM.

Posted Sep 2, 2010

Make your carousels start seamlessly at a random slide

drupal, jCarousel, viewscarousel

Brad :

If you've implemented a carousel using viewscarousel, you may have wondered how to make the carousel start at a random element. There are several ways to accomplish this and seamlessly start at a random element.

Posted Aug 30, 2010

RDFa and the Semantic Web: Why Should Online Publishers Care?

drupal, hamster wheel, Open Calais, OpenPublish, rdfa, semantic web, thomson reuters

Karen:

The newest versions of OpenPublish boast RDFa support and ahead-of-the-curve features for the Web 3.0 movement. So why should online publishers care?

Posted Aug 25, 2010

Off to DrupalCon Copenhagen

drupalcon

Jeff:

Frank, Irakli and I are arriving in Copenhagen on Monday for this fall’s European DrupalCon - which runs August 23rd - 27th. Phase2 is a bronze sponsor of the event. As always, we are looking forward to meeting as many people as we can, catching up with old friends and sharing in good Drupal spirit with the rest of the community.

Posted Aug 20, 2010

What To Do with Your To Do List

Dana:

Pen and paper? Stickies? Remember the Milk? ToDo.txt? Voo2Do? The list of tools goes on and on…

Posted Aug 10, 2010

Using a settings page to change the number of results in a view

drupal, views

Brad :

Many sites have views that are used to generate a large number of sections/pages on the site, and you may want to easily change the number of results without having to edit the view. It's easy to create a settings page that will allow you to configure the number of results.

Posted Jul 29, 2010 // 1 comment

JavaScript DOM Ready function

javascript, jquery, ready

Josh:

Many javascript libraries, including the almost ubiquitous jQuery, provide an element.ready function. This allows for queuing functions to run when the document or element is ready to receive commands.

Posted Jul 21, 2010

Presenting on the Drupal Distributions, OpenPublish and Future Drupal Architecture at DrupalCon Copenhagen.

copenhagen, drupalcon, OpenPublish

Irakli:

Phase2 will be in Copenhagen! And we have selected a variety of topics that we would like to share our vision on. If you are planning to be at DrupalCon in Copenhagen, this August, check-out the list of proposed sessions and panels by Phase2 and please vote on the ones you might be interested to attend.

Posted Jul 9, 2010 // 1 comment

Using the command line to get memcache statistics

memcached

Brad :

There are GUI tools that show the performance and statistics of your memcache servers. However, if you just want a quick answer to some simple questions, you can use basic commands and save the time of installing and configuring the tools.

Posted Jul 7, 2010

Isolating and extracting test content in large-scale Drupal implementations

Dave:

Large-scale Drupal implementations inevitably contain lots of content types, involve many users that participate in testing, and thousands upon thousands of nodes. For these reasons, you have to be very diligent from the beginning about how you differentiate test content from real content in order to avoid launching a site with pages full of lorem ipsum (or a photo gallery from your dog's 5th birthday party.)

Posted Jun 29, 2010