Drupal (core)

Gorton Studios is proud to announce the relaunch of The Rake Magazine as a Drupal site. The Rake is an arts and culture magazine based in Minneapolis/St. Paul. The magazine is known for its strong storytelling focus as well as its unapologetic brand ... [More] of humor, style, and personality. The main goals of this new site were to expose The Rake’s rich resources (about 7,000 nodes) and help visitors find interesting content quickly. It features a wealth of carefully highlighted and cross-connected articles, integration with the organization’s pre-existing Event and Restaurant database (still managed outside of Drupal) and a bevy of blogs. Simplifying administrative overhead was a key mandate from the outset. The old system was an unwieldy mix of Movable Type blogs and custom CMS content. Updating and featuring content had become an overwhelming process that was preventing The Rake‘s online edition from growing into something more fluid and community-oriented. The new site has enabled much more frequent updating, thanks to easily edited content and a robust permissions system. Read on for some of the modules and techniques involved in building this site. read more [Less]

UPDATE:Thank-you to the 22 people and 7 organizations that signed for membership since this announcement was posted. As part of our ongoing efforts to support the Drupal.org infrastructure, the Drupal Association has further bulked up our hardware ... [More] resources with 10 GB of RAM and a new master database server. These improvements will help us deal with the exponential growth curve the Drupal community has been experiencing, and help us prepare for the anticipated growth due to Drupal 6. The Drupal Association spent approximately $11,000 USD on hardware. To help pay for these upgrades and support the Drupal.org infrastructure, please purchase a membership (individual, organization). Your membership will help the association plan and spend money to support the Drupal.org infrastructure and Drupal events such as Drupalcons for the next 12 months. You can learn about the evolving architecture of our infrastructure in these diagrams. You can learn about our efforts to scale the Drupal.org architecture in this presentation. You can also view a picture of the new database server. read more [Less]

We have just released the library for Prototype Javascript developers - Scripteka - built on Drupal. It might sound ironic at first that jQuery-favoring CMS was used to build a Prototype community resource - however the back-end power of Drupal is ... [More] way too attractive. We had to cut jQuery out of use in our theme. Our purpose was to simply provide one place where all the Prototype-based scripts could be exposed, consolidated, and rated by the community. read more [Less]