Do Fashion with Drupal
Worldwide media company Advanstar Communications runs the worlds two largest fashion shows every year. The Magic Show is held in Las Vegas twice a year and attracts the world’s largest designer and retail brands. In addition to their Las Vegas shows Advanstar also provides events, publications, directories and websites in 11 diverse industries,...
You Know What Would Be Cool...?
You know what would be cool? Six simple words that have led many a Drupal developer to endless sleepless nights.
Well, here we go again... wouldn't it be cool to get some smart people together and build some apps? Sounded good over beers, so the team at Achieve ran with the idea and convinced our friends at Phase2, ImageX and Treehouse (more...
Drupal & Eloqua Integration
Achieve Internet is happy to announce our newest contributed Drupal module on www.drupal.org named Eloqua. The module allows posting of data from Drupal into Eloqua, which is a popular email marketing campaign platform designed for enterprise level companies with a web marketing strategy. It enables the creation, management, automation, and detailed tracking of...
Game Show Network & Drupal 7
The Game Show Network (www.gsn.com) had the season premier of the seventh season of their television show High Stakes Poker on Saturday, February 26. http://tv.gsn.com/shows/highstakespoker/ Achieve Internet is proud to participate in the premier by building a brand-new website to support the show. Game Show Network worked with an agency to design the site...
Customizing Drupal for the Client
As a full-service wedding photography business, Bella Pictures hired Achieve to help launch StudioBlue.com in an effort to better support their online clientele. More specifically, Achieve plans to sync Bella’s customer relationship management (CRM) software, Salesforce, with Drupal’s eCommerce module, Ubercart. In order to do this, Achieve will...
Drupal and Mulitple Language Translations
Drupal-based websites provide an exceptional structure for displaying content in more than one language. However, the process must be streamlined and handled with care as there are various methods that produce seemingly identical results. Each translation technique comes with its own strengths and weaknesses, but it ultimately comes down to designing an...
Achieve Internet specializes in Drupal and Solr integration and customization to ensure 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 built in Drupal and Solr!
Netflix –...
Drupal Case Study
A few reports have already been written about the "Fields in Core" coding sprint that was held December 15th - 19th at the Acquia offices in Andover, Massachusetts. While some of them are more technical, I decided to try to give you a good idea of what we spent our time doing. For the more technical ones check the "field in core" group.
Day 1: Design...
Drupal - Automated Testing
While Drupal 6 is still getting ready for production use, work on Drupal 7 is already under way. One of the major patches that made it in so far was the inclusion of SimpleTest into core. Unlike most patches, it doesn't affect the end-user, but it affects developers and the development process.
Automated testing is already a recognized best practice in...
San Francisco Area Drupal Camp - Badcamp
We would like to express our gratitude to Tao Starbow, his team and UC Berkeley for all of their outstanding work putting on the Bay Area Drupal Camp.
The events continue to evolve and are beneficial in a multitude of ways. Most notably is the gathering of experienced Drupal professionals and amateurs alike, to exchange ideas and share best practices....
