People at Trellon have been working on the Dashboard module as part of the Drupal.org redesign. A new version came out the other day, and we could use some help testing it and getting some feedback.

Dashboard is available at http://drupal.org/project/dashboard. It lets users create personalized dashboards with drag and drop interfaces. Administrators can create widgets for people to place on their dashboards, and there is a widget browser where people can filter down into different types of widgets. Kind of like iGoogle, but with support for nodes and blocks.

We tested this module extensively prior to release and it appears to be farily stable. Before getting into another major feature roll out, it would be helpful to collect people's impressions on this version and get it all nice, polished and fancy. Read More >>>

Today is Earth Day, and we are trying to keep the Earth Day web site rolling with the massive amounts of traffic that have been hitting it.

We were expecting about 25 million visitors to the site. Then Google decided to be all environmentally friendly and link to the site from their home page. Then Apple decided to be all ecosensitive by making the integrated iPhone app the number one app in their featured section. We really appreciated it when the servers were suddenly all spitting out 600 pages a second with no warning. Read More >>>

This post is an entry in our 20 APIs in 20 Days series. Learn more about how best practices lead to sustainable development at www.trellon.com.

CCK is the most important acronym you need to know in relation to content management in Drupal. It stands for Content Construction Kit and is the framework that allows people to enter all kinds of different information in their web sites. Read More >>>

So, you can put out a passable brochure site in a day and have reached the point where you want to learn a little more about Drupal. You're not looking to become an elite hacker type, you just want to be able to do something beyond pointing and clicking your way through site building.

But where to start? Between all the books, DVDs, blogs, forums, IRC channels, YouTube videos, meetups and self-proclaimed 'ninjas' spouting off and vying for your attention, figuring out where to spend your time and hard earned dollars can be a challenge. Different people have different ways of learning, and there are some people who are going to find all this stuff useful at some level.

But instead of going down the road of 'educational materials' written 'for the rest of us', you may want to use your time doing some self-directed learning about APIs (or Application Programming Interfaces). These are the tools people tend to use to solve problems in Drupal, and they can apply to a wide range of challenges developers are going to face. Even if you do not consider yourself to be a programmer, you may want to understand what they are all about. Knowing what they are and when to apply them is often the difference between a good Drupal site and a great one.

20 APIs in 20 Days is a blog series published by Trellon, aimed at sharing a little bit of information about module interfaces every good developer should know at least a little bit about. We don't intend to publish information in 20 sequential calendar days, but do plan on spending 20 days going over something important you may find useful to know. So don't give us a hard time when we forget to hit 'publish' a couple days in a row - it's going to happen, Trellonauts tend to be very busy people. Read More >>>

Trellon is closed today, Monday, January 18, 2010, in observance of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

As holidays go in the United States, this is one that is frequently overlooked and few people stop to really appreciate. There has been great debate in many states as to whether to observe this day or Columbus Day should be observed as a holiday, given the impact it has on various calendars and the ends to which the men worked. It occurs the day before the birthday of Robert E. Lee, a confederate general who has received great acclaim despite the ideologies he fought for. It occurs in the month of January, overshadowed by New Years and the events that take place over the holidays.

Taking a moment to reflect on Dr. King and his accomplishments today is worthwhile, especially so for anyone who has ever worked on an open source project. Read More >>>