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Block Styling

admin — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 02:54:45 +0000

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Tecnologia e attenzione all'ambiente

admin — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:12:36 +0000

La ricerca orientata alla progettazione e realizzazione di sistemi tecnologici all'avanguardia che utilizzano fonti energetiche pulite, quali il gpl e il gas metano, garantiscono lo sviluppo di una mobilità sostenibile a basso impatto ambientale e di sicuro vantaggio economico.

La qualità certificata finalizzata alla soddisfazione del cliente distingue la filosofia perseguita da Metanauto.

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The Drupal.org Redesign Progress

admin — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:27:39 +0000

Just a few years ago Drupal.org was maintained by a small team of insiders. Now, we are making major changes to the site using the community's many developers and themers.

This update provides the Drupal community our implementation redesign progress, where we've run into challenges, and provide information about our future plans.

The following update provides insight into:

Our progress so far
The present focus of the implementation and management team
Where help is needed from the community

1. A Redesign Progress Report

The Drupal.org redesign is an effort started in 2007 to make Drupal.org meet the needs of the growing Drupal community and showcase the power of the Drupal software. In 2008, an exciting and visionary new design for Drupal.org was completed by Mark Boulton Design and the community.

In 2008 and 2009, members of the Drupal community participated in six redesign sprints in North America and Europe. As major features of the redesign began to take shape, we needed to work on more granular details of the implementation. Recreating staging environments locally for development teams is a serious challenge, so we created a hosted infrastructure for developers and themers. In late 2009, we began to seek companies from the Drupal community to sponsor individual sections of the redesign. We've now recruited over twenty volunteer organizations to help implement sections of the redesign built on top of the features developed by the Drupal.org infrastructure team.

There is a lot of visible progress on the Drupal.org redesign:

Site is fully upgraded to Drupal 6, making customizations easier.
Single sign-on for all drupal.org sites has been implemented.
Significant improvements to project module, with statistics, are complete.
New features like module recommendations and related discussions are now available.
The site now utilizes faceted search with the Solr search engine.

Additionally, much of the work associated with the base theme and the dashboard system has been completed.

Much of the back-end infrastructure that supports development is in place. This includes:

Ten staging sites for development are set-up.
Central authentication for SVN access for designers and developers to contribute their code has been built.
Automated deployment of themes and modules to staging sites for development and debugging is live.

The project management team is shaping up:

Kieran Lal (Amazon) continues to be Lead Manager, assisted by project managers Lisa Rex (lisarex), and Chris Strahl (chrisstrahl), who has recently joined the redesign team.
Dries Buytaert (dries), Drupal creator and project lead, is involved to review our progress and provide additional direction.
Damien Tournoud (DamZ) is providing technical assistance for the project, specifically with regards to search results and the Download and Extend pages that rely on Solr search results.
Todd Ross Nienkerk (toddross) and Aaron Stanush (astanush) are the base theme implementation leads. They are assisting in theme development and maintaining consistency in the overall style.
Bill O'Connor (csevb10) is now leading the Search results sections. He has already implemented the theme search results section.
Randy Fay (rfay) is the Lead Redesign System Admin and Jonathan Wagener (theamoeba) is the newest Redesign System Admin

Finally, the Project Management team has been busy:

We've identified a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), which consists of 22 major sections, to be implemented as the first phase of the redesign. The redesign project is a big undertaking, and we need to focus on we can realistically accomplish within a reasonable timeframe.
Drupal.org Redesign has it's own project and issue queue
Blue Cheese (the new base theme) has it's own project and issue queue
The redesign project managers and some community volunteers have spent the last week evaluating the implementation progress by assessing each section.
A communication plan has been introduced to complement the existing documentation.
There are a lot of new contributors on the implementation team. To address this, we are providing development infrastructure, granting access to new contributors, documenting tools and training materials, providing project management, and recruiting more technical leadership to help train these new contributors.

2. The Present Focus

The current plan is to implement the redesign with community volunteers and sponsoring companies. Implementers are hard-working volunteers that are dedicating time and energy to this process; taking time out of their already busy work schedules. The Drupal.org redesign project managers will continue to monitor progress on this approach and assist the implementers as we're able.

Participation and section status in the redesign is being tracked at Assignments and Contact Info. Progress on the implementation can be viewed by clicking on the section status links:

The staging servers (e.g. https://staging1.drupal.org - use drupal/drupal for authentication)
In SVN commits (https://svn.drupal.org/drupal/drupal.org/redesign/ - SVN authentication required).
As we continue to make progress, a single staging site will be publicly visible to the community.

Weekly IRC sprints will start on Friday, Feb 12th from 11AM-11PM GMT in the #drupal-redesign channel until the MVP is ready. Everyone who is actively engaged in the redesign implementation should join in. The agenda is to focus on implementing the search results and Download and Extend sections.

Several sections only require modifications to their themes or content to be considered complete. In order to better facilitate reviewing and finalizing sections that near completion, the redesign infrastructure administrators will merge all of the code and theme work from the sponsored sections to a single site. This will allow progress to be assessed by the community and a dedicated quality assurance team. The merging will begin this week.

The project managers are engaged in the following:

Consolidating information from g.d.o., issue queues, domain experts, redesign documents, and email as the implementation teams provide feedback. This will be used to improve the documentation (how to implement the redesign and what the redesign will accomplish).
Chris and Damien will introduce an architecture document to explain how Drupal.org is built from Drupal core, project modules, Solr and custom modules, and a custom site specific drupal_org module.
Focusing our technical resources on two key areas: Search results, and Download and Extend sections. We believe that when the first Download and Extend section is implemented the other six sections which rely on the same search infrastructure can be completed quickly.
Duplicate issues will be consolidated and non-MVP issues will be postponed in the Redesign or base theme issue queues.

While not everything we want will be delivered by the first phase, we will have a solid framework in place and can incorporate additional community contributions and refinements after MVP completion.

3. Where Help is Needed

The Drupal.org redesign is a great opportunity for organizations and individuals to gain experience working on a large Drupal project, work with Drupal experts, and give back to the Drupal community. The redesign project needs volunteers with a willingness to dedicate themselves to the redesign, familiarity of the Drupal.org site and an understanding of how to work within the community.

Some tasks are more difficult than others. General difficulty of each area:

+++ = difficult

++ = medium

+ = easy

We need volunteers in specific areas. Contact us via the Drupal association contact form. Use the Volunteer to help with the Drupal.org redesign category. The project managers will match your skills, and availability to the project:

Develop Drupal search filters with Solr +++

We are looking for experienced developers who have written search filters for Drupal using Solr. Damien has implemented the core filters, but we need other experienced developers to assist the implementation teams.
Time commitment: 5+ hours per week.

Section Technical Leaders +++

Leaders for Download & Extend and Documentation sections needed.
Ideally, this person is already a redesign implementer. Skills needed are good written/spoken English, a willingness to work with a diverse group of people, excellent technical skills, experience leading a development team, and the ability to maintain organization of multiple teams working on multiple projects.
As a lead, you would become the point person for your section and monitor the section's issue queue. You need to understand all of the technical areas of your section to coordinate your implementation teams and see the section to completion.
Time commitment: 10+ hours per week.

General Project Managers ++

We need cat herders to help the general management of the project.
Skills needed are good written/spoken English, a willingness to work with a diverse group of people, excellent organizational and analytical skills, availability to meet with various project teams and experience creating project documentation.
Time commitment: 10+ hours per week.

Coders, themers and reviewers ++

Individuals can work on issues in the Redesign or Blue Cheese issue queues. Many of these issues require knowledge of the redesign, but there are also a lot where work can begin immediately.
Skills needed are good written/spoken English, a willingness to work with a diverse group of people, and an understanding of how to contribute within the Drupal community.
To contribute CSS or code patches, you'll need to read about how to obtain SVN access. Once you have worked on a Blue Cheese issue you can request access to the theme repository.
Time commitment: Varies (it's up to you!)

SEO ++

Skills needed include good written English, a good knowledge of HTML, and a keen eye for detail.
Please review the SEO Best Practices wiki before signing up. The tasks for this position are outlined there.
Time commitment: 5+ hours per week.

QA ++

Skills needed are good written English, a keen eye for detail, experience QAing front-end and back-end functionality of sites, taking screenshots and a willingness to work in the issue queues.
Please review the Redesign QA Volunteers wiki before signing up. The responsibilities of this position are outlined there.
Time commitment: 5+ hours per week.

Content Migration +

Skills needed are good written English and a keen eye for detail. Experience with managing and maintaining content on a Drupal site is also important.
Read the Content Migration Guidelines for an outline of what this position entails.
Time commitment: Varies

The Next Step

The new Drupal.org is an exciting new design, but also an exciting new way that the community can collaborate together to show the beauty and power of Drupal. We invite members of the Drupal community to learn more about their home, and get involved in improving it.

Thank you,

On behalf of the redesign Project Team

Kieran, Lisa, Chris

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DrupalCon London 2011 Session Schedule

admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:57:26 +0000

Core Conversations are a place for people actively working on Drupal or Drupal.org to meet and plan the future of Drupal (Drupal 8). We will announce selected Core Conversation sessions on 22 July 2011.

We remind you that we have some excellent pre-conference training courses and workshops scheduled for 22 August 2011 and invite you to register for these. This is a great opportunity for Drupalists at all levels of experience to learn from the experts.

The cost for a full day training varies from only Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£150 for the Absolute Beginner's Guide to Drupal to Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£325 for advanced topics like Building Modules for Drupal 7 and Drupal Powered E-Commerce.

Demand for Drupal talent is high, so why not invest in your future!

If you would like to support DrupalCon London and help us spread the word about the conference. Here you can get badges for your website and promote the conference via our Twitter and Facebook widgets.

See you at DrupalCon London 22-26 August 2011!

Stay up-to-date with the latest information about DrupalCon London by going to https://london2011.drupal.org/ or following us on Twitter @drupalcon.

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New Drupal Book - Drupal Performance Tips

admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:49:18 +0000

With this book you will learn how to maximize and optimize your Drupal 6 framework using best practice performance solutions and tools. The book covers how to vastly improve performance through upgrades, caching, configuring and optimization using core and contributed modules.

As a reader of drupal.org, you can receive a 15% discount (see below) and benefit the Drupal Association!

Some of what you will learn

Upgrade your Drupal 5 site to Drupal 6 using best practice upgrade paths
Back up and maintain your Drupal 6 site using core and contributed modules and utilities
Configure the Drupal core and contributed modules for high traffic
Run core Drupal page compression, CSS and JS compression, and use Drupal page caching
Run scheduled cron tasks to perform crucial garbage-collection processes
Use the Development (Devel) module to monitor page loads and queries
Use the Boost module for anonymous page caching, tweak Boost settings, and use Boost blocks and advanced Boost settings to monitor site performance
Install and use Memcache API and Integration module, and Authcache and Advanced Cached modules to enhance and monitor site performance
Configure a Drupal multisite environment for best performance

About the Book

Drupal is one of the most respected and widely used open source content management frameworks. Small, medium, and large-scale websites are built using Drupal and the framework supports e-commerce, CRM, multisite and web service integrations.

Once you get your Drupal site installed and up and running, you will be concerned with site performance and how fast you can make your Drupal site run. This book will focus on implementing performance modules and solutions to help speed up your Drupal website.

We will look at introductory topics such as upgrading your Drupal site, maintaining your site, and enabling core Drupal page compression and caching.

Then we will turn to an advanced look at some contributed modules that help speed up performance, including Development, Boost, Authcache, Advanced Cache, and the Memcache API and Integration module.

Finally, we?ll look at how best to implement a Drupal multisite environment and run it with high-speed performance in mind.

Get 15% off!

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Want a Sample?
To help promote the content provided within this book, Packt is generous enough to provide sample content of what you can expect from reading this book.

Article: Drupal 6 Performance Optimization Using Views and Panels Caching

About the authors

Trevor James
Trevor James (trevorjames) is a Drupal developer and web designer based in Middletown, MD, USA. Trevor has been designing websites for 13 years using a combination of HTML, XHTML, CSS, and ColdFusion. He has been using Drupal intensively for more than 2 years. Trevor's focus is on building web portals for higher education, public education (K-12), non-profit, and small business environments. He is interested in the best methods of developing Drupal themes, Drupal site performance, and using CCK, Views and Panels to develop front-end interfaces to support data-intensive websites. He loves teaching people about Drupal and how to use this excellent open source content management framework. He is also a contributor and community member on drupal.org and related Drupal community projects.

TJ Holowaychuk
TJ Holowaychuk (tjholowaychuk), president of Vision Media, is an avid contributor to the Drupal project as well as to other open-source applications. Contributing over 16 Drupal modules, several themes, and having fully designed, developed, and maintained hundreds of Drupal websites, he has displayed a wealth of knowledge across different aspects of the industry.

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Drupal 7.9 released

admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:51:42 +0000

Drupal 7.3, a maintenance release which fixes security vulnerabilities is now available for download.

Drupal 7.4 also fixes other issues reported through the bug tracking system.

Upgrading your existing Drupal 7 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 7.x release series, consult the Drupal 7.0 release announcement.

Security information

We have a security announcement mailing list, a history of all security advisories, and an RSS feed with the most recent security advisories. We strongly advise Drupal administrators to sign up for the list.

Drupal 7 includes the built-in Update status module, which informs you about important updates to your modules and themes.

Bug reports

Drupal 7.x is being maintained, so given enough bug fixes (not just bug reports), a new maintenance release will be made available the last Wednesday of next month (July 27).

Drupal 7.3 only includes fixes for security issues. Drupal 7.4 also includes bugfixes. The full list of changes between the 7.2 and 7.4 releases can be found by reading the 7.4 release notes. A complete list of all bug fixes in the stable 7.x branch can be found in the git commit log.

Security vulnerabilities

Drupal 7.3 was released in response to the discovery of security vulnerabilities. Details can be found in the official security advisory: SA-CORE-2011-002

To fix the security problem, please upgrade Drupal.

What is included with each release?

Shows a graph and that 7.3 should be used to upgrade quickly, 7.4 contains bug fixes and might need testing.

We make two versions of Drupal core available, so you can choose to only include security fixes (Drupal 7.3) or security fixes and bugfixes (Drupal 7.4). You can choose your preferred version. We are trying to make it easier and quicker to roll out security updates by making security-only releases available as well as ones with bugfixes included. We hope this helps you roll out the fixes as soon as possible. Read more details in the handbook.

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