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Whitehouse.gov switches to Drupal

In Commentary on 24 October 2009 tagged drupal with 1 comment

Personal Democracy Forum has a case study on the White House’s switch to Drupal from a proprietary content management system.

Update: Via Tim O’Reilly we learn that the full stack is Drupal, Apache, MySQL, and Red Hat Linux. They’re using Apache Solr for search.

Links from May 31st

In Commentary on 31 May 2009 tagged ajax, blogs, drupal, firefox, Google, JavaScript, links, Microsoft, search, security, The Media with no comments

• Security Fix: Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension. This is why nobody trusts Microsoft. Pulling this sort of stunt as an OS vendor is really irresponsible.
• Scott Rosenberg: Rosen and Sotomayor: Blame it on the blog. After writing a really irresponsible hit piece, Jeffrey Rosen tries to blame his own crappy reporting on the fact that he was writing a blog post. Even though he wasn’t.
• drupal.org: Apache Solr Search Integration. How to use Solr for site search with Drupal.
• drupal.org: Zappos.com and Drupal. A case study.
• Ajaxian: GWT team Wave’s goodbye to annoying question; It’s the API stupid. How Google Wave makes use of Google Web Toolkit.

Links from March 12th

In Commentary on 12 March 2009 tagged cars, community, content management, css, design, drupal, links, performance, science, security, user experience with 1 comment

• Kurt Cagle: Is Dreamweaver being beaten by Drupal? The real question being asked is whether the features associated with dynamic database-driven Web sites are more compelling than the pinpoint control and top notch user experience of Dreamweaver.
• Pathfinder Development: Keeping Up With The Joneses: Keeping Rails and its extensions up to date. Managing dependencies is generally one of the most unpleasant aspects of any software development project.
• Eric Burke: Ban Software Patents. Yet another example of ludicrous patents.
• Michael Ruhlman: Michael Symon’s Pickled Chillis. Really cool recipe.
• Serial Consign: Desktop Deja Vu. The history of the default desktop picture that shipped with Windows XP.
• useum: Measuring Social Participation in a Science Museum. Useful for more than just museums.
• Wired: The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Diamond Heist. Looks fascinating but I’m not reading it ’til my Wired comes in the mail.
• High Performance Web Sites: Performance Impact of CSS Selectors. Hard numbers on the varying performance of different CSS selectors. Also a reminder that there’s a lot more we could be measuring that we don’t.
• oobject: formula 1 user interfaces. Incredibly fascinating comparison of the current state of steering wheels in Formula 1 cars.
• PC Pro Blog: I’m sorry but Dreamweaver is dying. Another argument that high end page-based authoring tools are giving way to Drupal.

Links from March 1st

In Commentary on 3 March 2009 tagged books, drupal, economics, hardware, links, music, religion with no comments

• Dries Buytaert: Drupal sites. A big list of Drupal sites.
• Hivelogic: Review: The NewerTech Voyager Q. Docking station that lets you use internal hard drives as external hard drives. Seems like a great solution for certain backup strategies.
• Music Machinery: In search of the click track. Programmatically determining which drummers use click tracks and which don’t. Really, really interesting.
• David Plotz: What I learned from reading the entire Biblee. I was obsessed with his Blogging the Bible series, and I’m glad to see it’s now a book.
• TheMoneyIllusion: An open letter to Mr. Krugman. A really interesting alternative to the stimulus plan, suggesting novel monetary policy rather than fiscal policy. I have no idea whether this would work, but it’s an interesting idea.

Links from January 29th

In Commentary on 30 January 2009 tagged drupal, evolution, food, games, links, religion, Ruby on Rails, science with no comments

These links are for the past three days.

• fudgestudios’s bort at master – Skeleton Ruby on Rails project with a common set of plugins already baked in. I need to create a version of this for myself.
• Michael Ruhlman: Anti-Bacterial America. An inspired rant about Americans becoming germophobes and the implications of that transition.
• Aten Design Group: On Becoming a Drupal Development Shop. I’m fascinated by a company tying itself so closely to one tool.
• Jason Kottke: More on Candy Land. Pointers to an interesting discussion on the value of Candy Land as a game.
• The Guardian: Attenborough reveals creationist hate mail for not crediting God.
• rentzsch’s clicktoflash at master. New home of the Safari plugin that blocks Flash movies.
• Jack: Rack for JavaScript. Because it’s there.
• Al Arabiya: Obama tells Al Arabiya peace talks should resume. The first big interview of the Obama presidency goes to the Arab media.
• Marc Lynch: Obama to Arabs: “what you’ll see is someone who is listening”. Analysis of Obama’s interview with Al Arabiya.
• The CMS Myth.
• mezzoblue: Sprite Optimization. A very cool technique that I just learned about.
• FiveThirtyEight.com: Just Five Red States Left? This is a map we can believe in.
• Media Matters: O’Reilly don’t know much about (WWII) history. Jessica Alba knows more geography than Bill O’Reilly. Not surprising.
• Dr. Saturday: Hug your friendly neighborhood recruiting rankings. In light of the recent articles on talking about how hard it is to project the performance of professional football players based on college performance, it’s interesting that the performance of college teams can be predicted fairly accurately by the quality of their recruiting classes.
• How to Choose Chart Types. Very useful resource for determining which kind of chart to use to visualize data.