Achieve Internet Releases the Drupal 7 ApacheSolr Media Module
This module allows website administrators to index files of any type so they can be included in site-wide search results. This is very useful for enterprise websites that need to manage a large number of files, such as videos, PDFs, documents in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, as well as images. ApacheSolr Media module can index any...
Give the New Stickynote Module a Try!
When Volacci, well-known Drupal SEO experts, approached Ron Huber from Achieve Internet with an idea for building a suite of powerful SEO modules, Ron jumped at the chance. “These modules will change the way people think about their content and SEO, and we’re proud to be part of this game changer.”
Achieve Internet and Volacci...
Drupal's Getting Bigger in Corporate America, Nears 4% of the Inc. 5000 List
Volacci's research team has done exhaustive research to find out which sites are using Drupal. The results might surprise you.
From Volacci's blog:
Over a two-week period, Volacci’s research team conducted exhaustive research to identify the sites built on the Drupal platform....
Switchvox / Digium Client Profile
Digium is a computer telephony company that develops and supports Asterisk, a widely used open-source software platform that enables any computer to become a communications server. This type of server is quite powerful and can handle voicemail for multiple phone lines, forward calls, distribute multiple in-bound lines, and enable Voice-Over-IP (VOIP). Digium...
Drupal and Solr
Achieve Internet specializes in Drupal and Solr integration and customization to ensure that website content searching is fast and thorough. Solr is a popular search platform, due to its speed and features.
Here are five noteworthy public sites that use Solr to handle search:
WhiteHouse.gov – The Obama administration's keystone web site is Drupal and Solr...
Drupal Modules
Achieve's own Bill O'Connor (Drupal user csevb10) will participating as a mentor in this year's Drupal Summer of Code aggregator project. Bill has done substantial work on the Drupal Simplefeed module, working closely with Ted Serbinski (m3avrck) on a major overhaul in the summer of 2006 and the Drupal 6 upgrade earlier this year.
Bill also led development efforts...
FastCompany.com
Achieve Internet is proud to have been an integral part of the development process for the new FastCompany.com business community site. We provided custom Drupal software development and project management leadership to deliver a world-class union of award winning journalism and online community. The site incorporates a professional grade content management system and...
Drupal Scaling
I am very happy to announce the release of Memcache 1.7 for Drupal. The most notable improvement being the addition of pluggable sessions for memcache. Memcache is an instrumental module for scaling Drupal sites and we now have a release that is more stable than ever.
From danga.com - "memcached is a high-performance, distributed
memory object caching system...
Whiteboards for SCRUM
Going through two years of graduate work (and still paying for it) for a MS in Educational Technology was an eye-opening experience. It seems that no matter how old you are, kindergarten tactics for teaching still works wonders. I still marvel at my hard-earned teacher salary going towards instruction content such as "Effective Use of a White Board", "Zen...
Open Source Benefits
The various open source communities have been an integral part of computing for over two decades. They provide a platform for development, as well as create a continuous mode of improvement. However, I believe that the biggest value add from open source is the ability to create flexible extensions and improvements custom tailored to whatever environment it is...
