Ryan Sholin » drupal http://ryansholin.com The future of news. And more. No funny stuff. Thu, 24 May 2012 18:54:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 2006-2007 ryansholin@gmail.com (Ryan Sholin) ryansholin@gmail.com (Ryan Sholin) http://www.ryansholin.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com 144 144 Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education. Ryan Sholin Ryan Sholin ryansholin@gmail.com no no WhiteHouse.gov Releases Open Source Code http://ryansholin.com/2010/04/21/whitehouse-gov-releases-open-source-code/ http://ryansholin.com/2010/04/21/whitehouse-gov-releases-open-source-code/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:21:52 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com/2010/04/21/whitehouse-gov-releases-open-source-code/ That’s right, people. Barack Obama’s web team doesn’t just *use* open-source tools — Drupal in this case — they commit code and release modules to the community. Three of ‘em.

WhiteHouse.gov Releases Open Source Code

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An update on our Drupal conversion | yelvington.com

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2008/11/03/an-update-on-our-drupal-conversion-yelvington-com/feed/ 0 IdeaLab: DIY Django development at ReportingOn http://ryansholin.com/2008/10/03/idealab-diy-django-development-at-reportingon/ http://ryansholin.com/2008/10/03/idealab-diy-django-development-at-reportingon/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:43:34 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com/?p=1036 Over at IdeaLab, I’ve posted a bit of background on why I ended up building ReportingOn in Django instead of Drupal.  Frankly, to the users of the site, it shouldn’t matter which platform I chose, but to me, and to the future of the project as an open source basis for news organizations, I think it matters a great deal.

Here’s a clip from the IdeaLab post:

“Did I need the structure Drupal came with for users, posts, archives, feeds, and comments? Probably. But there was a whole bunch of other baggage, like all the WYSIWYG block and module organization that I wasn’t as comfortable with. My first instinct was to start from scratch and build my own theme, but I quickly realized I needed to build my own content types. And views. And the file system was confusing to me, coming from WordPress. Plus, although the Drupal community is full of awesome people building awesome modules, I still couldn’t figure out how to do a few simple things, like create a content type with a maximum length (say, 140 characters).”

Bonus: Django is fun, challenging in a productive way, and I know a ton of people working and playing with it.

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2008/10/03/idealab-diy-django-development-at-reportingon/feed/ 0 Drupal Developer’s Toolbox | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine http://ryansholin.com/2008/09/24/drupal-developer%e2%80%99s-toolbox-developers-toolbox-smashing-magazine/ http://ryansholin.com/2008/09/24/drupal-developer%e2%80%99s-toolbox-developers-toolbox-smashing-magazine/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:22:28 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com/2008/09/24/drupal-developer%e2%80%99s-toolbox-developers-toolbox-smashing-magazine/ Awesome list of links to useful Drupal resources and tutorials.

Drupal Developer’s Toolbox | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine

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WordPress Comments | drupal.org

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AD The Morning After | drupal.org

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2008/07/07/ad-the-morning-after-drupal-org/feed/ 0 Zen | drupal.org http://ryansholin.com/2008/05/26/zen-drupal-org/ http://ryansholin.com/2008/05/26/zen-drupal-org/#comments Mon, 26 May 2008 17:14:52 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com/2008/05/26/zen-drupal-org/ Extensible Drupal theme?

Zen | drupal.org

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Modules: CCK | drupal.org

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2008/05/26/modules-cck-drupal-org/feed/ 0 Turn a plain jane HTML template into a Drupal theme with the Theme Generator module. – Nick Sergeant http://ryansholin.com/2008/05/22/turn-a-plain-jane-html-template-into-a-drupal-theme-with-the-theme-generator-module-nick-sergeant/ http://ryansholin.com/2008/05/22/turn-a-plain-jane-html-template-into-a-drupal-theme-with-the-theme-generator-module-nick-sergeant/#comments Fri, 23 May 2008 01:46:37 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com/2008/05/22/turn-a-plain-jane-html-template-into-a-drupal-theme-with-the-theme-generator-module-nick-sergeant/ Nick’s really excited about this for his Drupal street-cred purposes, and I’m excited about due to how easy it’s going to make it for me to launch blogs on the community news sites I deal with at work.

Turn a plain jane HTML template into a Drupal theme with the Theme Generator module. – Nick Sergeant

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2008/05/22/turn-a-plain-jane-html-template-into-a-drupal-theme-with-the-theme-generator-module-nick-sergeant/feed/ 0 Painless Drupal revision control with CVS and Subversion on a shared host. – Nick Sergeant http://ryansholin.com/2008/04/24/painless-drupal-revision-control-with-cvs-and-subversion-on-a-shared-host-nick-sergeant/ http://ryansholin.com/2008/04/24/painless-drupal-revision-control-with-cvs-and-subversion-on-a-shared-host-nick-sergeant/#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:10:39 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com/2008/04/24/painless-drupal-revision-control-with-cvs-and-subversion-on-a-shared-host-nick-sergeant/ Nick’s bits on Subversion are the crucial part of this for me. Gotta get started with that as soon as I switch web hosts.

Painless Drupal revision control with CVS and Subversion on a shared host. – Nick Sergeant

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