Posts tagged with drupal planet

Help shape the future of Open Atrium

Our review of Tracy Smith's Open Atrium book just made it to Slashdot, confirming there is a widespread interest in this popular Drupal distribution. (By the way, the book is not, and is not meant to be, useful to developers, but if you build Open Atrium projects you should definitely recommend it to your clients: it will save a lot of time to you and them).

Hard and Soft configuration in Drupal Distributions

Features, taxonomy and other beasts

An extract from the new teaching materials we are preparing for our DrupalCon Denver 2012 pre-conference training, Code-Driven Development: Use Features Effectively. By now the advantages of a clean Code-Driven Development workflow are clear to the majority of Drupal developers; things like separation between configuration and content, packaging and deployment of new site functionalities or sharing changes in a distributed team don't look that scary anymore.

Look bigger with Features

Everybody uses Features, but using them properly makes a big difference

Nuvole built some respectably sized projects in 2011: a few large international projects (including a heavily customized Open Atrium installation for Higher Education experts and a portal for collaboration between Europe and Latin America on educational matters) and a bunch of ordinary websites, besides our other activities such as trainings and general consultancy. And people occasionally ask us how big Nuvole is.

Minisites in Open Atrium

A single Open Atrium installation to serve minisites from different domains with a common backend

You can use a single Open Atrium installation to create minisites, i.e., minimal websites with a simple structure, served at different domains, but sharing a centralized backend. Each minisite can be public or private and can have a specific theme and specific features. An anonymous visitor will only see a small, self-contained site, while site editors will be able to manage content on all minisites from the same backend.

Drupal Solutions for Public Works Monitoring and Remote Collaboration

Our presentations from Drupal Government Days Brussels

The Drupal Government Days held last week in Brussels were a good occasion to showcase two solutions by Nuvole, born as services for local and European institutions. Public Works Monitoring in Drupal Nuvole built a dedicated platform, based on the widely used Drupal system, to make it easy for municipalities to monitor public works in real time and optionally share selected information with citizens. Please find the Slideshare embed below, or get more information.

A Code-Driven Development Cheatsheet

From our DrupalCon Chicago training

Our Code-Driven Development with Features training in Chicago was a very interesting experience for us: people with different levels of Drupal expertise were able to appreciate the benefits of code-driven development and the most experienced attendees managed to experiment with the development workflow on their own laptops, by building and modifying sandbox websites.

Open Atrium, Beyond the Intranet

A new way to look at Open Atrium - From the Brussels Drupal Dev Days

Open Atrium is designed to be a powerful Drupal-based Intranet solution, but the underlying technology allows to do much more: creating a public portal with a totally different graphic design and complementing it with a private Intranet; creating other group presets than the default "public" and "private" group; customizing the profile fields in a clean and modular way, and several other possibilities.