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MarkLogic Conference 2010: We're Here!

Here at day two of the MarkLogic User Conference in beautiful San Francisco. From a developer's perspective, I can't think of a better way to spend Cinco de Mayo.

The big tagline for the conference (and the giveaway T-shirts) is "NoSQL before NoSQL was cool." And it's true: MarkLogic has been waving the NoSQL flag for nearly 10 years now. The way they store and access data is streamlined, unique, and ideal for a number of Web 2.0 applications.

The technical sessions have been superb. Interesting to see the concepts behind the speed and scalability of the MarkLogic database, as well as how we can best interact with it.

Here at OHO, we're proud to be one of the official sponsors of the event, as well as a MarkLogic partner. Personally, I'm looking forward to implementing some of the stuff they've presented, expecially in the arenas of XQuery and RDF. I love SQL and all, but sometimes a little change is good, no?

Chris OConnor
May 05, 2010
OHO Releases Faceted Search Site

We are now featuring an exciting new technology on one of our Web sites: Faceted Search.

Our new site for the Actors' Health Insurance Research Center uses a Faceted Search Drupal module. The module allows the user to browse the taxonomy hierarchy to retrieve and filter results.

The new site has been highlighted in the LA Times as well as the Washington Post.

Chris OConnor
Mar 23, 2009
Drupal, Faceted Search
Highlights from DrupalCon DC: Drupal & Facebook

OHO, a certified Acquia Drupal partner, had a significant presence at DrupalCon DC last week. OHO developers, designers, and project managers headed down from Boston to attend dozens of sessions, take pages & pages of notes, and grow a hat size or two. This week, the OHO blog will cover some of our favorite parts of the conference.
 
A lot of our clients ask how they can leverage a social networking site like Facebook to bolster their own site's presence. One of the best ways to do this is to provide Facebook content within your site. "Developing Facebook Applications in Drupal" gave us a great overview of how to do this. Listening to the session, we discovered that the technologies Facebook provides mesh perfectly with what we do at OHO. We're looking forward to implementing this functionality for our customers.
 
You can watch the session here.

Chris OConnor
Mar 13, 2009
Drupal, DrupalCon, Facebook
Highlights from DrupalCon DC: XMPP Framework

OHO, a certified Acquia Drupal partner, had a significant presence at DrupalCon DC last week. OHO developers, designers, and project managers headed down from Boston to attend dozens of sessions, take pages & pages of notes, and grow a hat size or two. This week, the OHO blog will cover some of our favorite parts of the conference.
 
The "Drupal with XMPP Integration" session was a jaw-dropper. XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) is an open standard IM protocol, most notably utilized by Google Talk. Darren Ferguson and his crew have made an outstanding set of modules that allow for real-time XMPP chat within a Drupal site!
 
The framework can be found here, and the presentation can be found here.

Chris OConnor
Mar 11, 2009
Drupal, DrupalCon, XMPP
Highlights from DrupalCon DC: Apache SOLR

OHO, a certified Acquia Drupal partner, had a significant presence at DrupalCon DC last week. OHO developers, designers, and project managers headed down from Boston to attend dozens of sessions, take pages & pages of notes, and grow a hat size or two. This week, the OHO blog will cover some of our favorite parts of the conference.

One of the first sessions we attended talked about Drupal’s implementation of Apache SOLR. SOLR is an enterprise-oriented search server, and it offers one of the best user experiences around. It can handle misspellings and manage different word tenses. It’s intelligent enough to weight the search results by the order that you’d like to see them. In addition, SOLR can intrinsically handle Faceted Searches, one of the main features our customers have asked for in their sites. The full presentation can be found here.

Apache SOLR will play a huge part in Acquia Drupal. Be sure to keep your eyes peeled- OHO plans to release some Acquia Drupal sites in the near future!

Chris OConnor
Mar 09, 2009
Acquia, Drupal, DrupalCon
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