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DrupalCon 2009 DC: Highlights

OHO, a certified Acquia Drupal partner, had a significant presence at DrupalCon DC last month. OHO developers, designers, and project managers headed down from Boston to attend dozens of sessions. The two DrupalCon topics that really caught our interest involved Apache SOLR and Facebook.

Drupal’s implementation of Apache SOLR (enterprise-oriented search server) offers one of the best user experiences. It can handle misspellings and manage different word tenses. It is intelligent enough to weight the search results by the order that you would like to see them. In addition, SOLR can intrinsically handle faceted searches.

"Developing Facebook Applications in Drupal" gave us a great overview of how to leverage a social networking site like Facebook to bolster a site's presence. 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.

OHO Newsletter
Apr 29, 2009
Drupal, DrupalCon, Facebook, Social Networking
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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