David Peterson

Interview with Dries Buytaert, Creator of Drupal

David Peterson

Interview with Dries Buytaert, Creator of Drupal
Drupalcon San Francisco -- last week, David Peterson caught up with Dries Buytaert, the creator of Drupal, to discuss where Drupal is heading, what challenges are ahead and what keeps him going.Read More
 
WhiteHouse.gov Releases Open Source Code | The White House
Today, the White House announced that they were releasing their first set of Drupal modules to the Open Source community.Read More
 
DrupalCon San Francisco 2010 | World Class City, World Class Conference
Drupalcon 2010 is going on right now in San Francisco. David reports back on Dries's 'State of Drupal' address. Topics include Semantic Web, Microsoft, NoSQL and a potential release dateRead More
 
 
The Official Microsoft Web Platform Team Blog
Just announced at Drupalcon San Francisco - Microsoft Launches SQL Server Driver for PHP.Read More
 
Feeds Module
One of the most painful steps in any web system is importing content -- especially so with Drupal. But in this short guide David shows a much easier way.Read More
 
Hurray! I thought this day would never come… Google has recently announced its support for RDFa along with microformats. This is great news, they now join Yahoo in supporting the W3C RDFa... Read More
In a revolutionary move, Obama’s administration is set to utilise next generation web technologies to bring an unprecedented level of transparency to government. In this case it will shed light... Read More
 
Martin McEvoy has just released the RDFa Documents extension which will (soon) be available via Adobe Exchange once approved. For now you can grab it directly from Martin's site: v0.1.Read More
The WhiteHouse.gov site is CC licensing all its material, and if you peek behind the covers (view source), you will see some RDFa. Granted it is a small start, but it is a start.Read More
Computer interface fatigue -- using the computer for so long that you begin to lose purpose. You are just functioning, clicking buttons, moving/removing content. But getting nothing "real" done. I... Read More
It has been many years since the original idea was proposed (back in 2004) but RDFa is now a full fledged citizen of the W3C. It reached recommendation status on the 14th of October.Read More
Ask.com have recently joined (or re-joined — they started with natural language search) the growing community of major search engines that are using semantic technology to add extra power to... Read More
POWDER is a W3C initiative that allows you to describe anything that can be referenced on the Web using semantics. The group recently reached out to Yahoo!Read More
Acquia, a software company based in Andover, MA, have announced a commercially supported version of the popular open source CMS, Drupal. As David reports, by offering a package of some of the better... Read More

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