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For us, every project starts with goals. From goals comes strategy, from strategy comes planning (information architecture, interaction design, technical architecture) and from planning comes (a rather agile) implementation.
And for implementation, 2011 so far is the year of Drupal 7 — at least it has been for us, because all of the projects we've started this year have implementation powered by...
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Is Drupal a Disruptive Technology?
Drupal's founder, Dries Buytaert, in his keynote at the 2010 San Francisco Drupalcon, asked the rhetorical question: Is Drupal a disruptive technology?
Product improves to serve more demanding markets. Image: Sun Blogs.
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Half dozen of the other
Has it been six years already? I'm astounded. Drupal in 2004 was really really really different. It's been quite a ride. And it's getting better and more fun and more interesting with every passing moment. And that's because of the stellar contributions of the dozens of core developers on Drupal 7 (and 6 and 5 and 4.7 and 4.6 and 4.5), the leadership of people and...
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The open source path can be a delightful and cost-effective way to go for a web-based project. However, if you don't understand the primary dos and don'ts of open source, a "free" open source website can quickly become a costly and difficult bear to manage.
As open source software becomes more popular and more relevant to the needs of non-tech-minded people and organizations, we thought we'd...
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The story goes like this: A couple hundred years ago, Scottish chemist Joseph Black was approached by some Scotch distillers. With the explosion of coal power, they wanted to know exactly what techniques they should use to replace their wood-burning distilling processes with coal-fired methods. Black did some experimentation and developed for them the appropriate method.
But his calculations...
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For anyone who's been watching how American elections seem to have become increasingly commodified, with huge contracts going to just a few corporations who seem unaccountable to even election officials, it's inspiring to see this:
California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson is forming a panel to investigate using open source software in elections. He has invited OVC [Open Voting Consortium]...
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