Monday, April 19, 2010
Tagmap | drupal.org: This module is part of a package of modules being developed by Jefferson Institute. These modules are meant to serve as tools for data visualization:
- Timelinemap - It allows you to load one or more data sets onto both a map and a timeline simultaneously. Only items in the visible range of the timeline are displayed on the map. Timeline Map displays data represented in the timeline as markers on Google map.
- KML content type - Users can attach .kml files to a node (with upload module), which in turn is displayed through the Google Earth API. If a user attaches several .kml files it is possible to choose between them via a drop-down box.
- Google Visualization API - It uses Google Visualization API to display different types of charts. Pie, Bar, Column, Gauge, GeoMap, IntensityMap, Area, MotionChart and Scatter plot are supported at the moment.
- Importer - Imports data in the database, handles batch upload of .zip files and connection of those files to the appropriate data in the created table.
Google Visualization API Data Sources and Tools Gallery - Google Chart Tools / Interactive Charts (aka Visualization API) - Google Code:
- Google Server Side Data Source Java Library (Data Source Library) - The Google Data Source Java library makes it easy to implement a data source. Because the library implements the Google Visualization API wire protocol and query language you need write only the code needed to make your data available to the library in the form of a data table. Even this task is made easier by the provision of abstract classes and helper functions. Source code available at http://code.google.com/p/google-visualization-java/
- Google visualization python (Data Source Library) - This project is a helper python library for providers who want to implement a data source for visualizations built on the Google Visualization API. Source code available at http://code.google.com/p/google-visualization-python/
- Google Web Toolkit (GWT) Visualization Library (Productivity Tool) - A set of GWT libraries that let you use existing visualizations and write new ones in Java. Classes for many Google visualizations have already been written and are included in the GWT library. Visualizations by Google that are already implemented in GWT are marked 'GWT Integrated' in the visualization gallery. Source code available at http://code.google.com/p/gwt-google-apis/downloads/list
- Google Spreadsheets (Data Source) - The Google Visualization API provides access to Google Spreadsheet data from within a Gadget. This allows a Gadget to use web-based, collaborative spreadsheets as a data source.
- CHARTle.net (Productivity Tool and Visualization Website) - A tool and visualization destination site for easily creating charts through a WYSIWYG interface. Edit chart options through a user-friendly UI and publish them on the CHARTle.net site or elsewhere.
- Google Secure Data Connector (Productivity & Security Tool) - Google Secure Data Connector (SDC) enables you to use Google visualization gadgets on secure data behind a firewall. SDC will protect your data when used by a visualization hosted outside your firewall. Source code available at http://code.google.com/securedataconnector/download.html
- Annotated-timeline-for-rails (Productivity Tool) - This is a Rails plugin for the Annotated Timeline visualization. Source code available at http://github.com/mcommons/annotatedtimeline-for-rails/tree/master
- MC-Google_Visualization (Data Source Library) - This is a PHP server-side library you can use to implement a Visualization API data source for MySQL, SQLite, and PostgreSQL database engines using PDO. Source code available at http://code.google.com/p/mc-goog-visualization/
- bortosky-google-visualization (Data Source Library) - This is a helper library to create a Google Visualization API Datatable for .NET users. Source code available at http://code.google.com/p/bortosky-google-visualization/
- GV Streamer (Data Source Library) - GV Streamer is a server-side tool that can convert data from different sources into valid query responses to Google Visualizations. GV Streamer supports several languages (for example, PHP, Java, .NET) and several raw data sources (for example, MySql).
- AJAX APIs Playground (Productivity Tool) - An interactive web application including sample code for the Visualization API. With this tool developers can quickly create their own versions of visualizations based on sample code, and quickly run and test them online. Source code available at http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-examples/
- GVis - Google Visualization API Simplification Layer (Productivity Tool) - A tool to simplify creation and data input for Google Visualization API charts. Source code available at http://code.google.com/p/gvis/
- Visualization Toolbar (Visualization Helper) - A toolbar you can add to any visualization to enable your users to export the data as CSV, HTML, an iGoogle component, or an embeddable iFrame gadget.
- Eclipse Rich AJAX Platform (RAP) Visualization Wrappers (Productivity Tool) - 10 visualization wrappers for the Eclipse Rich AJAX Platform (RAP): Motion Chart, Line Chart, Scatter Chart, GeoMap (partial), Pie Chart, Column Chart, Bar Chart, Area Chart, Gauge, and Annotated Timeline. Source code available at http://www.eclipse.org/rap/
- TracGViz (Productivity Tool) - TracGViz is a free and open source tool that provides components so that Trac will be able to use Visualization gadgets as well implements data managed by Trac as a Google Visualization API data source. Source code available at http://mac.softpedia.com/progDownload/TracGViz-Download-58517.html
- GvisWriter (Productivity Tool) - GVisWriter is a PHP 5 class library that generates gvis.js Javascript code. Use this class to generate Google Visualization visualizations using PHP. The library uses the Google Code Project gvis.js wrapper instead of generating native Google Visualization Javascript. Source code available at http://code.google.com/p/gviswriter/source/browse
- vis-table (Data Source) - A library implementing a Google Visualization datasource in PHP. It has three main parts. The datatable implementation itself, the query language parser, and the formatters. Source code available at http://code.google.com/p/vis-table/source/browse
- Google Datasource Implementation in Oracle PL/SQL (Data Source) - An Oracle PL/SQL package that enables Oracle to server Data Sources directly from the database. So basically you can use any Oracle query as a base Datasource (the package will return a JSON file with the data). It has almost-full support for the Google Query Language. Source code available at http://code.google.com/p/oragoods/source/browse
Google launches Data Explorer - Gapminder.org & Google Spreadsheets Adds Gadgets, a Directory of Features & Getting Started with Spreadsheets Gadgets - Google Spreadsheets APIs and Tools - Google Code & Gadget list : Gadgets - Google Docs Help & Map : Gadgets - Google Docs Help & Google Chart Tools - Should I use an image chart or an interactive chart?
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Drupalversity | groups.drupal.org: "LMS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_management_system#Systems,, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoomlaLMS) & SCORM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCORM, http://drupal.org/project/scorm, http://groups.drupal.org/scorm) & Registry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADL_Registry)" & Drupal in Education Handbook & The Drupal Cookbook (for beginners) | drupal.org
Friday, April 16, 2010
Drupal CMS Pros and Cons | Top Website Guide to Design Marketing Development: "I believe one of the largest mistakes new website owners make in 2010 is to choose a basic and less powerful CMS like WordPress, simply because they don’t know or haven’t been exposed to Drupal. You can create a better site with more visual design and make it a lot easier for your visitors to find content if you choose Drupal. For sites at the $2,000 level and above, I would build in Drupal over all other choices, except maybe Joomla." - Excerpt from eBook for beginners.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Need for Speed: Google Adds Load Time to Algorithm: "Increasing site speed can have a significant effect on a company's bottom line. A Shopzilla case study showed that when a website sped up by 5 seconds after a redesign, there was a 25% increase in page views, a 7-12% increase in revenue, and a 50% reduction in hardware. More examples have shown that faster websites have more queries and visits per user, while slower websites have less searches as well as negative long-term effects -- users remember the lagging site and are reluctant to visit it even after load times have increased."
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Friday, April 09, 2010
Thursday, April 08, 2010
SearchFest 2010 Session Recaps and Presentation Decks Available Online - EngineWorks: "Available now on the Search Engine Marketing Professionals of Portland (SEMpdx) Web site are live blog recaps of panel presentations to anyone interested in gleaning insight into the valuable information that was delivered throughout the day. Also available on the association’s Web site, through a password-protected page for SEMpdx members, are the PowerPoint Presentation slides from each informative panel session."
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Monday, April 05, 2010
Seth's Blog: The Tribes Q&A ebook is free: "Dozens of volunteers, working together, put together this ebook"
Paul Sterling on Umbraco vs. DNN: "While both are frameworks in the sense that they can be used as a basis for extension, Umbraco has a more “native” .NET approach in that .NET controls (user controls, custom controls, and the like) can be used “as is” either via Umbraco macros or inline in your markup without any special consideration for the framework."
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
FILEnetworks Blog: TheVault business torrent tracker – How to get an invite: "TheVault.BZ is probably the best business related tracker on the planet"
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
The importance of !important in CSS | YellowJug.com: "This doesn’t solve completely the matter, but can be considered as a workaround to improve your fluid layout appearance avoiding non-standard code"
Sunday, March 21, 2010
21 Fresh & Stunning Drupal Themes | Mogdesign: "A while ago I published an article with 25 beautiful Drupal themes which become the most popular post on this blog ever. Since that time, tons of new Drupal themes have been published, so I decided to list another 25 new and beautiful Drupal themes. Each theme has a link to its Drupal.org project page, a live demo link, and a basic description." & tripwire magazine: 120 Free Essential Drupal 6.x Themes , 70 very useful Drupal 6.x Themes
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Pagetest - where web sites go to get FAST! & Page Speed Home: "Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them."
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
OpenID Ends 2009 With 1 Billion Accounts Enabled: "OpenID accounts are enabled by such providers as AOL, Blogger, Flickr, Google, LiveJournal, MySpace, Verisign, WordPress and Yahoo, with announcements of upcoming OpenIDs from Microsoft and PayPal. Sites that allow users to login with OpenID range from major retailers and music labels to news organizations and social sites." & OpenID Pilot Program to be Announced by US Government: "Ten private companies, a number of US Government Federal Agencies primarily in the Health sector and the OpenID and Information Card Foundations will announce this morning in Washington DC the launch of a pilot program to allow members of the public to log in to participating government websites with their credentials from approved independent websites."
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
A/B Split Test your email campaigns | MailChimp.com points to:
- How to use A/B Split Testing to Increase Conversion Rates MarketingExperiments.com
- With A/B Testing, You don't think-you know - Jeff Campbell, Resolution Media
- How to Improve A/B Testing - Bryan Eisenberg
- Subject Line Testing Scenarios - A handful of very quick, easy subject line a/b tests you can run right now.
- Email Marketing Needs A/B Testing: A fan of ConstantContact.com discusses the need for A/B testing
- The Most Important E-Mail Marketing Tactic of All: Bill Nussey of Silverpop discusses why A/B testing your email marketing is so important, and gives some suggestions on what to test.
- Testing and Email Marketing: A list of resources about testing your email marketing campaigns
- 10 Quick Wins for Email Marketing: #7 - Testing (tips from iMedia Connection)
- Incorporate Testing Into Your Game Plan: Blog post from David Baker at MediaPost
- 1/3 Opens Occur in First Hour: When you send an A/B test, how long should you wait to check stats?
Monday, March 08, 2010
Iframe Drupal module: Auto-Detect iframe height based on target url height & insertFrame | drupal module
SoundManager 2 Tutorial: Getting Started - see also Drupal module for SM2 & an article in JSMag September 2009 – Eric Martin / ericmmartin.com
Friday, March 05, 2010
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
I don't know if these 2 frameworks are the same thing: Genesis | Drupal Themes Video Tutorials - Genesis is a flexible and powerful starter theme for Drupal 6 & Genesis Theme Framework by StudioPress - new WordPress theme framework with endless design possibilities like AgentPress (a Genesis Child Theme)
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Monday, March 01, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
Cutting Edge - Predictive Fetch with jQuery and the ASP.NET Ajax Library (MSDN Magazine, Feburary 2010 Issue)
Adventures In Authentication | Learn By The Drop: "Facebook Connect, Twitter, and Google Friend Connect all allow you to authenticate users to your site. They require varying degrees of technical expertise to set up and the exact functionality varies too. The good part is that they all seem to excel at verifying the identity of an anonymous visitor to your site, at least temporarily. The bad part is that they really don't fit in with the normal Drupal account creation process. ... The discussion called Social networking accounts: unified approach to store in external account data in user content profiles? covers some of the same issues I mention here and even mentions the fact that there is no module for LinkedIn."
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Has Anyone used Clicktale or Crazyegg for Drupal sites? | drupal.org & JavaScript screen recording plug-in | drupal.org has tons of links & ClickTale vs Crazy Egg | web development blog | d0x & Crazy Egg - build heatmaps and track clicks & Quick Start Guide - ClickTale Wiki & The definitive heatmap Corunet. El Blog (Open Source)
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Monday, February 08, 2010
Tabs and Slideshow Modules (Views based and Otherwise) | groups.drupal.org: "See http://drupal.org/node/418616 for a more thorough comparison of slideshow & rotator modules... There're already two jQuery plugins to do the carousel effect: jCarousel and jCarousellite which is a lighter version and lacks many features in jCarousel, yet it works better."
Sunday, February 07, 2010
Landing Pages in WordPress: The Thesis Theme Compared To FlexSqueeze & The Difference Between Flexibility And FlexSqueeze & Squeeze Theme
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Apple unveils iPad tablet computer | iLounge News: "Reading the live feed that Flash is still not available for web viewing is unbelievable and a deal breaker for me. It’s not worth the upgrade price to me, when my Touch can do most of what the iPad will do for my purposes. I don’t need to use the iBook/iPaper reader portion. I was really hoping for a full fledge mini computer with a full function web browser." - AGREE 100%
Monday, February 01, 2010
Sunday, January 31, 2010
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."
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
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