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We have updated our online Request CD shop to include all the latest and most popular GNU/Linux Distros so that you can get GNULinux CD's delivered to your doorstep. Trying out all your favourite distros is hard if you do not want to rely too much on your Internet connection. As part of our initiative in promoting Free Software and GNU/Linux we are trying to provide GNU/Linux fans with an alternative, easy and cost effective way of delivering GNU/Linux Distros. We have all the Top 10 Linux Distros ready for shipping.
Drupal is supposed to be a very secure CMS and the Drupal security team is a highly efficient team of people scouting the Drupal camp to find and sort out security issues as soon as they crop up. But no amount of programming will fix security issues caused by incorrect configuration of a Drupal site. Here is a checklist of items that you have to confirm after you deploy a new Drupal installation.
This is a basic installation instruction for installing Drupal in your shared cpanel hosting account. Although the instructions are for installing Drupal 7 and for installing it specifically on your cpanel hosting account, the steps outlined (or something similar) should work for installing other versions of Drupal or installing it in other hosting accounts. Read the complete instructions before trying this out.
Running Drupal on a shared hosting environment could become a challenge when the site starts getting a lot of visitors. So f you run your Drupal installation on one of the shared hosting providers like GoDaddy, Hostgator, Dreamhost etc and your site is reasonably popular then it is likely that you would have run into performance issues if the site is not configured correctly. If you configure your Drupal site correctly you should be able to stick with shared hosting for a longer period of time before moving on to dedicated hosting.
We have recently been toying with the Drupal API module in an attempt to set up our own Drupal API documentation site just like Lullabot did. As of today we have managed to set up something that is fairly functional and somewhat similar to the Drupal.org documentation site. Check out our own Drupal API reference site.
The site currently contains documentation about the top 500 Drupal modules and their D5, D6, D7 and D8 versions in addition to the documentation for Drupal 5, Drupal 6, Drupal 7 and Drupal 8.
We are looking for a Business Development Associate (BDA) who will be responsible for driving the growth of our IT Infrastructure Solutions Operations through which we deliver IT Hardware Solutions and Free Software Migration Services and Consultancy. The BDA will be expected to contribute to the formulation of a strategy for marketing, implementation of the strategy and driving sales growth.
Drupal uses a reasonably powerful mechanism to create, prepare and send emails generated within the system. We maintain two modules related to emails in Drupal - Mail Merge and MailQ (Mail Queue) - and get the opportunity to work with the mail subsystem in Drupal. Here is a brief write-up on how the mail system works in Drupal.
When you work on forms in Drupal where you want to have the same form array elements used multiple times in a form you can use the concept of for form tree. For example if you are working on a purchase order form where you want to have multiple rows of product information like say product name, product code, quantity, price etc, for each product added to the form. This can easily be done using the form tree as follows.
Another October has arrived and, like clockwork, Canonical has released the latest version of Ubuntu - Ubuntu 11.10 or codenamed Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot. The Content Grid team has in turn put in some effort towards this new release and has come up with an Installation Guide for Ubuntu 11.10. The CDs and DVDs for the latest Ubuntu 11.10 should be available via our RequestCD program.
We are looking for a Content Coordinator / Content Writer who can help us build content for our internal websites and also for our client websites. The person would be responsible for writing and proofreading content. He/she would also have to coordinate content development by a team of freelance content developers (APPLY ONLINE). Specifically, the person will be responsible for the following