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On April 17, 2010, we gave a talk on the Bulgarian Dialect Atlas at the Balkan and South Slavic Conference at the Ohio State University. You can download the slides here [/assets/files/dombrowski_2010-04-17.pdf].... read more

10/11/10 -- This guide was written for Intrepid, and doesn't work on the latest Ubuntu releases. An updated and working version of the guide is available here [/blog/2010/12/10/installing-cocoon-on-ubuntu-10-04-or-10-10]... read more

Andy and I will be demoing the Bulgarian Dialect Atlas on April 17th at the 17th Balkan and South Slavic Conference [http://bss17.osu.edu/program.html] at the Ohio State University. The slides [/assets/files/dombrowski2_2010_slides.pdf] and handout [/assets/files/dombrowski2_2010.pdf] will be posted after the talk... read more

* Browser | Apache | PHP | -SQL Queries | MySQL * Common pattern for optimization: inspect each layer, add little buckets of caches everywhere * "Fast track" through the different layers to get out requests more efficiently * On browser side... read more

* Your site is vulnerable (really, it is) * GVS offers security review service for Drupal * Bad things: abusing resources, stealing data, altering data * Abusing resources: DDOS (extorting money from site owner)... read more

Josh Koenig drupal.org/user/3313 josh - at - chapterthree.com getpantheon.com About the cloud * "Cloud" as new model for hosting * Traditional hosting = real estate (rack space) * Most real estate customers are renters... read more

See also Features [http://drupal.org/project/features] on drupal.org * Jeff Miccolis & Eric Gundersen - Development Seed, building a lot of products (things like Open Atrium) * Drupal is very configurable - but that's also a weakness... read more

See slides here [http://www.doitwithdrupal.com/2009/sessions/jquery-drupal]. * What's jQuery: javascript library, circumvents browser incompatibility * Known for things like opacity, AJAX requests that work across all browsers * Visual effects and "wow factor" * Reducing javascript code... read more

* You can use full html to input a map straight from Google * Geo, Geocode, OpenLayers modules * Standards compliance * Example functions: within, touches, crosses - also, distance, area, perimeter... read more

* To make it easier for people to format text without knowing HTML, you could do filters, and/or editors * Filters change stuff - people type things, filter changes that on output * A ton of modules that provide filters in addition to the core * Filter only makes its transformations on output... read more