Drupal

The multivariate module was successfully migrated to Drupal 7. We were very happy to present this important improvement that will allow Drupal community to offer A/B testing for their clients on a presentation that was hold on Drupal Business Days in Vienna, Austria.

For no special reason Drupal sites on our server (CentOS 5 with cPanel/WHM) started to make problems with file upload. Because Drupal 6/7 has use Ajax for file uploading the only thing that happens is that browser just hangs until timing out. Quick playing with different file sizes revealed that files that are less then 100kb are OK, but bigger files are creating problem. Of course php post_max_size and upload_max_filesize are set to 20mb so that was not causing problems. Strange...

I hold a presentation at www.barcamp.at/Gov2.0camp with the title 'E-gov & Drupal: A love story', that tried to explain to the broad public why did Drupal become so successful in the area of e-government application.

Several people asked me to post it asap, so here it is. I hope you will find some interesting and useful information

"MontenaSoft.at is a web page that demonstrates the capabilities of modern web 2.0 applications. Principally, we have tried to get the most out of jQuery library and demonstrate types of interactions that are usually associated only with the use of flash animations and movies. The benefit of this approach is that jQuery library is integral part of several CMS frameworks (including Drupal).

Last couple of months we started to notice spam comments on our site. We have installed image captcha but obviously there are more and more human persons whose job is to manually spam sites.
We quickly created couple of triggers and actions that are sending emails and notify us when a new comment is created. Then we would manually check that comment and if it is a spam (>95% chance) we would put it into moderation.

Here are the slides from my session "Securing your Drupal site" that I held at drupalcamp.at. Topic that I tried to cover was so huge that it just wasn't possible to manage it in 45min, and I just barely scratch the surface.

DrupalCon is the most important event of Drupal Community, it happens once a year in Europe and this year it is taking place in Paris, France, from 01. until 05 Sept. We are expecting to meet a lot of old friends from all over the world and to get some insider information about the future development of Drupal, which is emerged in this last years one of the most powerful content management system on the world and also our preferred platform for Web developing.

Web site Research Strategy 2020 (Forschungsstrategie 2020) was an extraordinary interesting and exciting project that incorporates political issues with social capabilities of web. It is a platform that empowers broad public to discuss about Austrian research strategy created by Austrian Council.