Drupal
Drupal and Alfresco – a Recipe for Intranet Success
Drupal has been recognized for some time as a flexible platform for building lightweight social applications that go beyond “typical” consumer-facing websites, such as intranets for collaborative teams. There have been several projects over the past few years that have been aimed at making this type of Drupal deployment easier and more user-friendly, most notably, the recent Open Atrium release.
Open Source CMS Drupal Helps InfoWorld Pursue New Content Strategy
Like many media and publising brands, InfoWorld.com came to Optaros looking to for new and efficient ways to better expose and organize content and encourage reader participation. It's no secret that traditional publishers are undergoing a sea change in their approach to garnering reader interest and eyeballs, while looking to cut costs and generate new revenue streams. It's a difficult, though increasingly familiar, story and a perfect scenario for leveraging the flexibility and economy of Open Source.
Drupal CMIS Modules Launched
Over the weekend, the Optaros team, after working with Alfresco and Acquia, launched the Drupal CMIS and CMIS Alfresco modules on drupal.org. The long-term goal of these modules is to provide both a robust API and a vendor-specific implementation of the API for connecting to an ECM repository via the CMIS standard protocol.
The Drush Module
The Drush module has recently become one of my favorite new Drupal "toys." Drush, or the Drupal Shell, allows the site admin to do a number of useful things from the command line. Among the most useful is the ability to download and install Drupal modules without ever opening a browser. Just type drush pm install views for instance to install the views module. Even better, type drush pm update and you will be prompted to update any modules that are out of date. (Note: this doesn't yet work for core updates, but it will).
Does Drupal scale (and what does that mean, anyway)?
As a consultant specializing in enterprise Drupal, I often find myself answering a relatively small (and consistent) set of questions about the Drupal platform early on in any engagement. Many of the larger Drupal sites are media and publishing oriented, which makes these questions even more common across projects. As a result, I've started to compile a list of most common Drupal questions and the answers I've been able to provide. First up is the most common concern enterprises have about Drupal - scalability.
Top Employee Skills Soon to Include Community Engagement
Dion Hinchcliffe from ZDNet has an interesting post out about communities in the enterprise. It’s really almost two posts in one, with the title seeming a bit misleading until you get to the end. He does discuss platforms (and yes, Drupal is high on the list) but what was much more interesting was his discussion of how expertise in forming online communities may soon become a cornerstone skill for employees.
New Drupal Site and Better Media Management
There’s a new site being featured on Drupal.org that does some pretty cool things with media management. If you get a chance, take a read through http://drupal.org/node/288658 and check out some of the features of the site. The highlight is definitely the media management system (Scald, which looks like it might borrow some concepts from Achieve's own Asset Manager.
Drupal Summer of Code Participation
Achieve's own Bill O'Connor (Drupal user csevb10) will participating as a mentor in this year's Drupal Summer of Code aggregator project. Bill has done substantial work on the Drupal Simplefeed module, working closely with Ted Serbinski (m3avrck) on a major overhaul in the summer of 2006 and the Drupal 6 upgrade earlier this year.
Drupal Wins Webware 100 Award - Dries has Good Day
Drupal earns another feather in it's cap today with the announcement of the Webware 100 awards. The Drupal CMS is one of the nine finalists in the "Photos and Pubishing" category, selected by Webware and voted on by over two million Web 2.0 application users. 
FastCompany.com - Drupal Adds Value to a New Business Community
Achieve Internet is proud to have been an integral part of the development process for the new FastCompany.com business community site. We provided custom Drupal software development and project management leadership to deliver a world-class union of award winning journalism and online community. The site incorporates a professional grade content management system and editorial workflow controls, along with a full suite of cutting edge Web 2.0 applications.
