Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year says Andy Williams in one of his songs. That's true if you ask me. The whole family gathers, eats, talks and in general enjoys spending time together, which was maybe not a common practice during the year. Families are accompanied with presents, Christmas trees, ornaments and other Christmas motives. We explored, how Drupal can conjure you the Christmas spirit. Christmas Ornaments First and the easiest way to lift up the Christmas spirit is with Drupal Icon, which is ideal for Christmas time. With it you can do a lot of things. You can, for… READ MORE

Janez Urevc is a Slovenian mastermind when it comes to Drupal and its connection with media. Online, he is found under the name of ‘slashrsm’ and currently works in MD Systems. Before answering he takes a deep breath, like he would like to speak without a single pause. But he does it to carefully gather his thoughts, who come out as a clear opinion about a variety of topics. We talked about Drupal events, Drupal community and media management, which is considered as the main weakness in Drupal’s core. Together with Iztok Smolic you have organized a first user group meetup in Slovenia back in… READ MORE

Remember where we have finished in our world tour of Drupal Camps? Let us refresh your memories. After Africa, Asia, North America, Europe and South America it was time for Middle America to shine. Only two Drupal Camps were found there, so we hoped for more Drupal activity in Oceania. Our hopes were fulfilled. Like in the case of Africa, most Drupal Camps are taking place in one country. In fact, in this case, all of the Drupal camps took place in Australia in contrast to South Africa, which hosted a majority of the events. That was not the case in the past, because New Zealand also helped… READ MORE

Recent events, when Acquia announced its partnership with Magento, shook the Drupal community. Blog posts and tweets were written to ensure Drupal commerce is not neglected. Do we need yet another commerce platform? How can Drupal Commerce survive in the world of Shopify and WooCommerce, where setting a simple web shop takes a day or less? It makes sense that we ask ourselves if we even need a commerce solution for Drupal when there are so many doing it, and doing it more efficient.  Let's step back and try to understand what e-commerce is, because it's not only a shop that sells… READ MORE

We recently decided that at the beginning of every month we will look at the topics we covered in our blog posts in the previous month. So, we began last week with our first overview. But we were not satisfied only with that. Therefore, we decided to also look around and gather for you the best Drupal blogs that other authors have written over the past month. Here's our first selection, which includes blogs, which were written in November. We'll start with the most obvious one. It's the one from the founder Dries Buytaert, who dedicated his post to the first anniversary of Drupal 8. He… READ MORE

As promised in one of our previous blog posts, the area between North and South America will not be forgotten. Therefore we present you Drupal Camps in Middle America. We already guided you through Drupal Camps, which were organized in Africa, Asia, North America, Europe and South America. Since our expectations were so wrong last time, we'll say that we expect Middle America to be ranked between South America and Africa in our world tour ranking table, which measures the quantity of organized Drupal Camps. Let's clear up first the geographic part of view. Term Middle America can also be… READ MORE

We have a news for you. Pretty exciting one. From now on, at the beginning of every month, we will look at the Drupal blogs we have written over the past month, making sure that nothing slips away from you and that you will be as informed as possible. Maybe you would have liked some of the topics, but you were just not on your computer that day, you had a day off, you were too busy at work etc. Well, from now on, even if you have missed something, you will be able to catch it later. Drupal Camps in Africa were our first blog topic this month. We got the inspiration for starting the world… READ MORE

Famous beach Copacabana and football are the most frequent associations when we think of South America. Well, there are plenty more things there, that's for sure. Drupal Camps are one of those. In our world tour we already touched continents like Europe, North America, Asia and Africa. In the exact same sequence are continents listed from one with the most Drupal Camps (Europe) to the one with the least Drupal Camps (Africa). We expected to find South America between Asia and Africa, but for the first time, we were wrong. Our assumptions were so wrong, that it was difficult to process… READ MORE

Our world tour is far from over. This time it continues with Drupal Camps in Europe. After already exploring Drupal Camps that take place in Africa, Asia and North America, it's time for the continent from which our company comes from. We concluded that Drupal Camps are the most frequent in North America, followed by Asia and Africa, which currently takes the last place. What about Europe? Which spot is reserved for it? Since Drupal was founded in Europe by Dries Buytaert – you can read about that too in our blog post –, we expected that Drupal activities and camps will be as frequent as in… READ MORE

After political discussions about the elections in the United States are slowly cooling down and the jokes on Donald Trump getting elected circle around the web in a lesser extent, we decided that it is time to look at something else. It's time to present you Drupal Camps organized in North America. We already presented Drupal Camps, which took place in Africa and Asia and concluded that Drupal Camps and activities are far more spread in Asia than in Africa. However, we expected that North America can offer a little bit more. We were right again. After we discovered that so many websites run… READ MORE

After our world tour of Drupal Camps took a lift-off in Africa, it continued its journey in Asia. We concluded that Drupal activities in Africa are poorly represented and on the other hand predicted that Drupal Camps are more spread across the world’s largest continent. We also expected not to find the most of Drupal activities gathered in one country, like it was the case in South Africa. We were quite right. Before we take a look at the most important Drupal Camps in Asia, we should explain that at the beginning of this year, everything was under the shade of DrupalCon. It was organized… READ MORE

After our CEO Iztok Smolic again went on a DrupalCon event, this time in Dublin, to expend his and company's knowledge, we decided that we will present you the options of attending Drupal events. After already explaining, why you should attend DrupalCons, we will now focus exclusively on Drupal Camps. No matter on which continent you live, you'll know, where to widen your horizon and learn something useful about Drupal. Be it for business or for pleasure. Drupal camps are drupal-related events usually organized by a local Drupal user groups, which need a place, sponsors, volunteers,… READ MORE

The question how to choose your Content Management System (CMS) is very difficult. Particularly at the beginning. You have the idea, what kind of knowledge you want to share with the world, you just don't know how and with what to do it. In one of our previous blog posts, we showed you the comparison between Drupal and Wordpress. This time we will look at Joomla and compare it with Drupal and yet again express our opinion about, which is preferred on what particular time. It's not difficult to guess, where we will start. That's of course the installation. It's fair to say that both… READ MORE

I saw a post recently about another Drupal 8 site that got launched. It was Rainforest Alliance. Nothing special at first. But then, out of curiosity, I clicked on it and checked it. While I was admiring the impressive pictures of the forests, I suddenly remembered that over a month ago I read an article about city of Boston launching its website on Drupal. Then it hit me. Who are the »big names« that Drupal can show off to the world and say 'These are our most proud members'? As you may have heard or read or anything else, Drupal is a free and open-source content-management framework that… READ MORE

Mobile apps are known to handle offline world very good with their native apps capability, which can cache basically all the assets whereas web applications are falling behind, losing this battle. A lot of us cannot afford to create a dedicated mobile app. Therefore, we need to find some solution with what we already have. That solution is Application Cache or AppCache in short. Of course, as any other software, it is not perfect and it has its gotchas. Moreover, for some time now it has been marked as deprecated, but basically no other real alternative exists. Actually, there is an… READ MORE

Last time we guided you through early beginnings of Drupal. We explained how all started and how first versions of Drupal were made. This time we will look how this open-source content-management framework evolved from its fourth to its latest, eight version. Drupal 4.0 Drupal’s fourth version was released on 15. 6. 2002. It became a platform for any type of web application. Users were able to modify it and extend it to fit their needs. Developers came from all across Europe and US, so Drupal became international open source project with over 100 major pages using it. Taxonomy module, who… READ MORE

Drupal is one of the leading free and open-source content-management frameworks. It provides a back-end framework for at least 2.2% of all Web sites worldwide. But to establish itself at this level, Drupal overcome a long and painful path. We will therefore guide you through the early beginnings of Drupal and present you how everything started. In a year 2000 Dries Buytaert and Hans Snijder, two students on the University of Antwerp, needed an internet connection. Latter was rare for Antwerp students, so they set up a wireless bridge between their dorms. They also needed a place to talk to… READ MORE

Drupal is one of the leading free and open-source content-management frameworks. It provides a back-end framework for at least 2.2% of all Web sites worldwide. But to establish itself at this level, Drupal overcome a long and painful path. We will therefore guide you through the early beginnings of Drupal and present you how everything started. In a year 2000 Dries Buytaert and Hans Snijder, two students on the University of Antwerp, needed an internet connection. Latter was rare for Antwerp students, so they set up a wireless bridge between their dorms. They also needed a place to talk to… READ MORE

What is Internet of Things (IoT)? A good and straightforward description can be found on Wikipedia “The internet of things (IoT) is the network of physical devices, vehicles, buildings and other items—embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity that enable these objects to collect and exchange data.” In a little simpler words the IoT is a way that everyday objects have the connection to the Internet, allowing them to receive and send data. Those things can actually be almost everything and we can already find them in many branches, like healthcare,… READ MORE

What is Internet of Things (IoT)? A good and straightforward description can be found on Wikipedia “The internet of things (IoT) is the network of physical devices, vehicles, buildings and other items—embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity that enable these objects to collect and exchange data.” In a little simpler words the IoT is a way that everyday objects have the connection to the Internet, allowing them to receive and send data. Those things can actually be almost everything and we can already find them in many branches, like healthcare,… READ MORE