ComputerMinds blog

Well, it's finally happened - the brand spanking new Drupal 6 has been released into the wild. We have been playing a lot with Drupal 6 and getting ourselves quite excited (finally drupal_execute has decent return values, and the menu system feels a bit less 'brutal'). However, while we would love to start building client sites on it there is one major omission - the views module.

Suffice to say there have been many discussions about the core-worthyness of the views module, so I am not about to start another one here! Instead I'll just say a HUGE thank you to everyone involved with what we think will be a massively important release for the Drupal

PS - Can it really be a year already since Drupal 5 was released! It seems like only yesterday we were stumbling over those fancy new admin/build and admin/content menu entries LOL

The Drupal association have just rolled out a new logo and are having a bit of a membership drive ... so if you haven't joined yet do now!  http://drupal.org/node/204175

We don't often post random stuff on here, but this has been amusing us in the office, we thought you might like it too ...

File this one under "slightly annoying but can't be helped", after a fun day of upgrading sites to 5.4 we find that 5.5 has been released!  Fixing a fairy hefty bug in the taxonomy term RSS feeds introduced by 5.4 you can't really not upgrade ... at least we know what we will be doing today :)

Its been a day for Drupal releases.  The most important for our clients is the release of Drupal 5.4, which fixes a possible SQL injection vulnerability (its one of those obscure ones which shouldn't affect too many people hopefully).

Well, who would have thought it - the tiny village of Barrow Gurney is busy making tech news!  http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/04/2148215

We are excited to get the chance to work with the guys down at companyX on a number of exciting Drupal projects.   We can't go into too many details yet, but watch this space ...

Drupal 5.3 was released early this morning, fixing a number of security issues and a number of other small bugs (all the fun feature stuff is only being added to Drupal 6!).

We are pleased to be working with the excellent Paul Evans on a number Drupal based sites. Computerminds are looking after the back end, and phptemplate themeing, allowing Paul to concentrate on what he does best - producing beautiful looking sites!

Computerminds are proud to be members of the Drupal association and encourage all our clients to contribute as well. The Drupal association was established to help the Drupal community with funding, infrastructure, events, promotion and distribution. It has already made a significant difference to the invaluable drupal.org site with contributions of some lovely new hardware.

We are very pleased to announce that we will be working with Surrey based CTN (charity trustee network) to revamp and refresh their current Drupal site.

Were very pleased to announce that Computerminds will be supporting the excellent mashup* events, starting with the release of the new site http://www.mashupevent.com

Booktribes continues to grow, and we get another (albeit quite small!) mention in the Guardian

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/opinion/story/0,,2107361,00.html#articl...

Computerminds are pleased to be working on a number of Drupal projects with Bristol based consultancy Lightenna

Computerminds are delighted to be working on a new site for the York based training company Highlander, not least because of the fun we can have saying "there can be only one" at every given opportunity.

Computerminds are proud to be working on the relaunch of the excellent content-wire site.  The site has been going since 2001 and in its own words is a niche editorial product covering narrow vertical technology sectors, e-business, new economy and cyberculture. 

Computerminds are pleased to be acting as Drupal consultants for the London based design firm Realworks media.  By using Computerminds for the hardcore Drupalizing, Realworks are able to concentrate on delivering the high impact designs they do best.

Its only a small mention, but its a mention none the less ... in the letters page of Thursday's (29th March) guardian. And a small link on the their website too

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2044602,00.html

SvD one of the main national newspapers in Sweden ran a big story on Booktribes in both the print and online version.

The full article can be found here - and we will post a translation as soon as we can figure out what all those funny letters mean :)

http://www.svd.se/dynamiskt/kultur/did_14831505.asp

 

 

 

 

 

Computerminds are pleased to take on plus7 - a major English language Russian based magazine - as our latest client.

Plus7 are looking to bring their popular magazine to the web, and Drupal with its powerful CMS features and easy customisation is the logical choice.

The new site (to be released on plus7.eu) is to feature everything you might expect from a modern magazine site, with the addition of paid directory listings pages (to generate some revenue) and a fully featured classifieds section.

The site is due to be released in early April, which gives us some time to brush up on our Russian ...

We are pleased to announce that this month Computerminds have gone global - taking on clients in North America, India and Israel!

The Minds carried out a rapid Drupal upgrade on the popular http://wwww.anthropology.net - taking the site from a creaking 4.6 based banger to a whiz bang super fast 5.1 based speed machine.

We've come up with a brilliant competition with the booktribes guys running throughout the whole of March. The concept is simple, sign up to the site and write reviews and comments about any book you like - the best comment each day is selected as the winner. The daily prizes include copies of David Mitchell's (the guy behind Cloud Atlas) new book black swan green. The best comment from the whole of the month will be selected to win a 21 book boxed Sceptre selection - featuring 21 modern classic books ... I wish we were allowed to enter!!! So what are you waiting for, head on over to booktribes and start writing :) http://www.booktribes.com

Its been 2 months since the release of Drupal 5 and we have been busy upgrading plenty of client's sites, but as is so often the case we neglected our own!

Until now that is.

The portfolio site for the TV Production / Design company Diverse Ambition has been launched by ComputerMinds.

We have moved and consequently have both a new phone number and a new postal address. All the details can be found here ...