http://returncontrol.com Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:24:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When something's wrong with your Web site, you want it fixed ASAP. But did you know that the way you report a bug to your developer(s) could actually slow things down and ultimately waste your organization's money? Check out The Four Types of Email Programmers Receive and see if you've ... http://returncontrol.com/the-proper-way-to-report-a-bug-and-save-time-and-money Still not sure if building your Web site with Drupal is the right choice?  Consider this: Drupal won the Hall of Fame Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards.  Drupal had previously won the 2007 and 2008 Best Overall Open Source CMS Award. I'm a little late in posting this ... http://returncontrol.com/more-reasons-to-choose-drupal-its-a-hall-of-fame-winner How do you build a modern news Web site that gives editors the tools they needs to serve San Francisco with in-depth reporting on important local issues -- all without spending millions of dollars? You use Drupal. That's exactly what the nonprofit news organization SF Public Press did when it ... http://returncontrol.com/sfpublicpress-org-a-news-site-for-the-21st-century-built-on-drupal Big news: The US government has relaunched Whitehouse.gov, its flagshipship Web site, on the Drupal content management system! This is a testament to Drupal's stability, low-cost of ownership, and community-oriented DNA. To read more, see Drupal founder Dries Buytaert's post on the subject: http://buytaert.net/whitehouse-gov-using-drupal And see also the writeup at techPresident.com: http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/whitehousegov-goes-drupal http://returncontrol.com/whitehouse-gov-now-running-on-drupal And I thought I was putting old technology to good use by setting up my third-generation iPod as a whitenoise machine.... This guy has me beat: http://returncontrol.com/ubuntu-baby-rocker-1-0 I mistyped the name of a Web site I wanted to visit today and found myself staring at a custom Comcast error page laden with advertising instead of the usual Firefox "site not found" page.  That's right, Comcast has started hijacking its customers' spelling errors and using them to make ... http://returncontrol.com/comcast-wants-to-own-my-spelling-mistakes-rolls-out-dns-hijacking-service This video from Scofield Editorial about vendor-client relationships made me laugh.  Consultants will get a kick out of it. (Oh, dear clients, don't worry. The video isn't about you -- it's about other people's clients. You're the best, of course! ;-) http://returncontrol.com/the-vendor-client-relationship One more than one occasion recently, I've found myself trying to explain to friends and clients what features the Drupal content management system provides "out of the box."  As I quickly realized, it's not easy to do because Drupal is so rarely used as-is out of the box. It's a ... http://returncontrol.com/what-does-drupal-provide-out-of-the-box With more than a decade of unbiased reviews of digital cameras under its belt, the Digital Camera Resource Page decided it was time to ugrade the underlying technology used to serve the reviews and move them to a multi-page format.  The new format helps split the in-depth reviews into ... http://returncontrol.com/new-project-launched-dcresourcecom-reviews What started out as a solo quest to help a client fix a nasty problem has turned into a collaboration with several open source Drupal developers as we test, debug, and put together documentation for a nascent module.  It's exciting. More later. I should be sleeping and there's lots of ... http://returncontrol.com/loving-the-open-source-community