Saturday, January 30, 2010

Huge Increase In SEO Services Spammers Using Gmail Accounts: "People who are truly good at what they do don’t have to spam to get business. If they were really good at SEO they could get all the traffic they could handle using legal means."

Monday, January 25, 2010

Drupal Wins GRAMMY.com | Lullabot: "Site Modules and Architecture: This PressFlow-based Drupal 6 site makes heavy use of CCK and Views. Other modules of note are Views Slideshow on the home page; Fivestar for ratings throughout the site; ImageCache, ImageField, and ImageField Extended for image handling and galleries, Poll module (part of Drupal core) on the home page, and Views Cloud for sidebar tag clouds throughout. The site also uses the Custom Page module to provide the custom home page layout. New modules to come out of the project include Gallery Summary and iFrame Filter which improves page load performance for remote javascript-based content. Many module patches and improvements were also contributed including work on Flag, NodeQueue, ShareThis, and the Ooyala video module, which handles all of the video on the site."

Monday, January 18, 2010

CCK Mashup -- Oh The Things You Can Do! | DrupalCon DC: "We'll look at ways to combine CCK with other modules to do interesting and exciting things, including:
  • Protect fields with Content Permissions.
  • Add fields and relationships to Views.
  • Insert fields and groups into Panels.
  • Generate field data with Devel.
  • Populate fields from feeds using Feed API.
  • Make clickable maps into input widgets using GMap and Location.
  • Inject pictures into fields using Flickr."
Analyze This! Using the Google Analytics API | Lullabot

Friday, January 08, 2010

Drupal and Apache Web Site Security Checklist, part 3 | Nadeau Software: "In a 2009 report (PDF), White Hat Security reports the top ten vulnerabilities in sites they tested. Number two, with a 47% likelihood, is Information Leakage. Vulnerabilities of this type come in many forms. They needn't just include obvious problems, like posting credit card and social security numbers to public pages. Other information leakage problems reveal information about the site's software and configuration, such as the model and version number of the software, host names, IP addresses, logins, and passwords..."
IKEA: Facebook Showroom Number 8 - Interactive (video) - Creativity Online: "Forsman and Bodenfors turns Facebook tagging into a promotional tool for the opening of Ikea's new store"

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Tuesday, January 05, 2010