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xkcd's Map of Online Communities 2010

Submitted by Chris Brookins
on October 6th, 2010 at 11:34:45 PM

Will we see Drupal Gardens in next years' map?

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Boston Skyline

Submitted by Chris Brookins
on October 6th, 2010 at 12:03:05 AM

I just uploaded pictures from what was likely the greatest office view I ever had (or likely will have!).  At my last startup we found this Cambridge sublet on the Charles River for $17/Sq Ft.  Now Microsoft leases the same space for over $65/sSq Ft last I heard.  On the 4th of July we had quite a view of the fireworks celebrations. 

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Drupal Gardens adds video support with media galleries in the September 23rd update

Submitted by Chris Brookins
on October 1st, 2010 at 12:55:06 AM

Four weeks ago, the Drupal Gardens team introduced the image gallery feature to all Drupal Gardens sites. While that was great, we wanted galleries to be true media galleries, and so last week the team introduced video support to galleries in a seamless way. Built on top of the awesome Media module and supporting Media: YouTube module, it's architecture is easily extended to support video from many other sources in the future. Read on for the details:

  • Image galleries are now media galleries with the addition of video support.
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Drupal Gardens gets beautiful image galleries and a new look in the August 20th update

Submitted by Chris Brookins
on August 22nd, 2010 at 8:12:13 PM

When we did a Drupal Gardens feature survey a couple of months ago, the #1 requested item was image galleries.  Since every Drupal Gardens site is based on Drupal 7, we wanted Drupal Gardens' galleries to be built on Drupal 7's new files and fields architecture, and developed using the powerful media and styles modules.  We put quite a bit of time into these modules in order to support galleries, and since there wasn't yet a Drupal 7 lightbox module or media-based gallery module, the team had to develop those nearly from scratch (leveraging the fantastic ColorBox jQuery plug-in).  After

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Orlando or bust! Attending Agile 2010

Submitted by Chris Brookins
on July 11th, 2010 at 11:04:17 PM

I'm psyched to attend the Agile 2010 conference when I head down to Orlando this August. This annual conference has been going on for at least 5 years is sponsored by Agile Alliance, a great resource for all things agile. When I was trained in scrum by Jeff Sutherland in 2005, I found it liberating and empowering.

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