Blogs

Calais released a technology preview of Calais 3.0 for testing and feedback today that we are eager to play with. It includes a mix of interesting new things for us.

The National Cristina Foundation matches your old hardware with a partner organization who can get it into the hands of somebody who needs it, reducing e-Waste and helping organizations with technology needs.

Ever tear your hair out for hours trying to track down why something is not working, only to find out that it is the simplest thing? Well, after losing a large chunk of my life that is never to return, I am happy to say that it is solved.

While doing some module development on my Mac using xampp, I was running into the problem that file uploads to nodes, either via upload.module or CCK filefield was not working at all. Not in D5, not in D6. Nothing I could do or think of would solve it. Nothing on Google or any other search engine despite my myriad of search terms.

After literally hours trying all I could think of, debugging PHP, JavaScript, etc, I finally found out that Irakli was having the same problem and swooped in to the rescue. Turns out that it was a configuration parameter that was left to “default” in php.ini. By default

Was not actually using a valid system default as best we can tell. Simply changing it to

fixed all if our upload woes and we were back in business.

Now, can I have that last half a day of my life back?

Tonight’s Northern Virginia Drupal Meetup’s topic is- Are investors and VCs investing in social networking startups? In Drupal based startups?

Experts from Valhalla Partners, Launchbox Digital, Pulse Media Group and Space Angels Network will present.

August 12, 2008 6PM EDT – 8PM EDT (followed by networking)

Teqcorner, LLC. – 3rd Floor Conference Room
1616 Anderson Road
McLean, Virginia 22102

Search-Engine Optimization (SEO) is a hot topic in online publishing, and has been for some time. This is because you can greatly improve the reach of your content and your traffic numbers by following simple rules that make content easily understood by search engines.

Equally important, but much less understood is properly meta-tagging your content. In the following blog post a “secret” formula is revealed for how to use meta-tagging for better SEO results.

Now that many people use a dual-monitor setup at their workstation, the ol’ print screen trick just doesn’t cut it for screen captures. The recent Firefox update rendered my old tool obsolete – but I found a great add-on called Abduction! that gets the job done nicely.

Office space can get noisy and make it hard to concentrate. What can you do about it, besides slapping your co-workers? A much less violent approach comes from a software company Blackhole. Keep reading for details…

Phase2 Technology and Apture, Inc. worked together to provide a new solution to provide online publishers with an expanded toolset to enhance the user experience for publishers utilizing the Drupal content management system. Read more about it here.

The mobile web browsing audience is growing at an exponential rate, and many of the biggest players on the web are taking notice. It’s time to start taking mobile web design seriously, and fast.

Recently, Google released its “language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible way of serializing structured data for use in communications protocols, data storage, and more”: Protocol Buffers.

While seemingly good news, there are some serious concerns. Read about those here.