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...
Apache Solr Search For news and updates on the open-source Drupal CMS project, visit the Drupal Association’s Web site at www.Association.Drupal.org. For news and updates on the open-source Drupal CMS project, visit the Drupal Association’s Web site at www.Association.Drupal.org. This week, Achieve completed one of the final phases of the integration project for the...
Drupal.org Team The Drupal.org redesign team just released the results from their first major code sprint started in Portland, OR during OSCON in July.  This first release included a significant amount of infrastructure and under-the-hood implementation.  One of the visible portions of this sprint is the Solr search deployed by Achieve's CTO, Bill O'Connor (cveb10). ...
Drupal.org Team Meets In Portland The Drupal.org redesign team, including recently hired contractors, met in Portland last week to coordinate their efforts and generate a workable project plan. Among the agreements in place are the scheduling of a development release on August 7th, and the planning of subsequent releases every two weeks after that until project completion.  Additionally,...
APQC.org Goes Drupal     APQC is a best practices organization that provides information and research on benchmarking, knowledge management, measurement, and process improvement to its approximately 40,000 members. APQC’s somewhat rare in the web world because its product is its content. Obviously, a robust and flexible content management framework is critical....
Drupal Solr Integration For large Drupal deployments, performance is key. One way to improve site speed is to unload search functionality onto a dedicated platform, called Solr, that provides better performance and more options. Here are the top five reasons to integrate Solr with your Drupal site: The White House did it! Drupal and Solr have existing integration paths and modules to...
Drupal.org Names Achieve Lead Solr Developer Achieve Internet has been leading Solr development for the Drupal.org redesign for a while, and we were officially named lead Solr developer last week.   One general goal for the new site is to efficiently deliver useful and relevant content to the user. Technically, this involves several important tasks: Defining how content will appear on...
Top Five Reasons to Use Solr to Power Site Search The content in your Drupal site must be accessible to visitors, and this makes robust searching a necessity. Solr, a popular open source search platform, can be integrated with Drupal to provide robust and fast site searching.   Here are five of the top features Solr offers: faceting searching – filter searches on fields,...
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...
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 –...
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