Compusure Drupal development

Belgium.be, the official website of Belgium, is using Drupal at http://forum2010.belgium.be. This forum site has been put together in preparation for our
Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2010.

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect is the fact that the site was built in less than 10 days. The Chancellorship of the Prime Minister picked Connexion to build this site with the help of Internet Architects.

The site is available in 4 languages so all Belgian citizens can express their opinions and engage in interactive discussions about European issues.

This module makes available the SocialTwist Tell-a-Friend widget for Drupal for FREE.The widget enables users to announce content from the page viewed on Drupal via email, IM, blogs, and social networking sites.
The possibility of spreading content from Drupal across diverse email and social networking channels makes this very different from other similar products. Also, users don't need to remember email addresses since the widget shows the contact lists from the respective email/social networks. That makes it a lot more powerful than other tools which just show a basic form to type email addresses.
The widget gets embedded in the content and lets the user announce a specific page than the entire site without moving to another page. Site owners can customize the widget properties and view usage statistics by signing up for FREE at http://secure.socialtwist.com/web/signup and getting a SocialTwist ID.

I don't get a lot of fan mail. But I'm pretty sure I just got the world's best intentioned, but poorly thought out, fan letter:

Love yer site, your Drupal work, and omfg, you're even into the Ubuntu doc-team. I think that is the grandest, and I'll likely gawk atcha in DC during DrupalCon where a 3D screensaver / wallpaper, and general graphic homage will be born out due to a slick time lapse photo montage shall ensue, et. al. ;->
Keep on rockin' in the free world. :-)

The identity of this person will forever be known to only two people (me and "him"), so please don't ask. Although I am a little bit creeped out by this email, this Public Service Announcement isn't about making anyone feel uncomfortable. (I've sent my fair share of weird emails that have been fuelled by inside jokes and caffeine and not at all fuelled by sanity, so I'm hardly one to judge. This person has gotten a quick reply back and knows how I feel about the email.) read more

Honestly, it feels crazy early for me to be submitting session proposals to a conference four months out. I was motivated by the reminder that the deadline is nearing to get our Ubercart session proposals up on the site for folks to scope out and vote into being. If you haven't posted your proposals yet (not counting BoF sessions), get on it! The deadline is December 10th.
I'll be teaming up with Lyle, the other core Uberdev, and the rest of Team Ubercart to present a couple of sessions:read more

Trellon seems to be facing more and more projects where our customers need to make a decision on which content management system to use for their web properties. We work with open source technologies and have vast Drupal expertise so we can assist with the decision to use Drupal as the underlying content management system for Web properties vs. a proprietary program. Here we will lay out the pros and cons of each so that you, the reader will have a better understanding of the optimal direction for your firm. The good news is that Drupal and other open source content management systems are being considered in more and more enterprise (think large) installations due to the fact that their value is so high. Open source content management systems like Drupal, Joomla and Mambo, all offer significant functionality with no software costs or licensing fees.
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For a Drupal 5.x equivalent to this module, see http://drupal.org/project/recognized_user
This module adopts the known (or recognised) user concept, like you see on websites like eBay and Amazon, where a user who has previously logged in to the site is remembered by a cookie. In the case of this module, the site administrator can optionally assign a role to known users, extending their permissions to do some things that are more than an anonymous user can do.
As an example, with a site I'm working on you have to login to download files. However, for "remembered" known users we don't want them to have to login just to get a file - that's annoying - so we'll create a 'known user' role, set it as the role for known users to receive (in admin/user/known-user-role) and allow it to download files. That means you don't have to login fully to download files, but you must have logged in at least once on that computer in the last 30 days.

Hotel Harrington - located just seven blocks from DrupalCon DC - has a great deal on hotel rooms. You can get a single room for $109 a night, or a room for two (two twin beds) for $135 a night. Other types of rooms are also available at great prices. There are only 40 rooms still available in the hotel, so book yours fast!
This is a great price for a hotel room located in downtown Washington, DC, and it's just a short walk to the conference and to many restaurants, bars, shops, and tourist hang outs. Hotels can get quite expensive, so I recommend booking now. I'll post other deals as I find them too, so follow us here or on twitter if you miss this deal.read more

Drupal 6 supports translation of content with the core Content Translation module. So you can create a page in English, then translate the page to Dutch.
But what if you attach a file to the English page? It does not show up on your Dutch translation. And what if you are using CCK and FileField? That's the case that I want to cover in this article.
First, I installed Drupal 6.6, enabled the Locale module, and added the Dutch translation (for the proper way of installing translations, see Addison Berry's screencast, Installing Drupal with a Translation).
I installed CCK 6.x-2.1 and enabled the Content module and some others (Node Reference, Number, Text, Option Widgets).
I installed the 6.x3.x-dev snapshot of FileField (it's better to use an actual release but I saw some bug fixes going into the module and figured I'd test it). I enabled FileField module.

On Friday, December 5 at 11am Pacific (California) time, join Lullabots Jeff Eaton and James Walker for an O'Reilly webcast: Everything You Wanted to Know about Drupal but were Afraid to Ask. The content of this webcast is mainly geared toward people who are new to Drupal and want to find out what all the fuss is about.
They require registration ahead of time, and already 460+ people registered in the first 24 hours. (!) So if it sounds interesting to you and you can make it, head over to http://oreilly.com/go/drupal.
(PS: Yes, we're sure it's Friday, December 5, even though it says Wednesday a couple times on that page. :))

As we observed before, configuring APC with low memory can be a drag on performance, causing high executing times.

We saw this recently for a client with a large web site on a dedicated server that approached 2bits.com for performance tuning.

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