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Drupal Security Updates
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Drupal is one of the most secure Web Content Management systems available today and the credit for this goes to the simple fact that there is a dedicated security team that constantly checks the codebase for any vulnerabilities and provides fixes for any vulnerabilities identified. As per the Drupal Security team, security release "windows" are every Wednesday for Drupal contributed projects, and one Wednesday a month (usually the third Wednesday) for Drupal core.
Drupal Global Training Day #DrupalGTD
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The Drupal community is one of the largest open source communities in the world. There are more than 1,000,000 passionate developers, designers, trainers, strategists, coordinators, editors, and sponsors working together. Drupal Global Training Day (GTD) is an initiative of the Drupal Association that represents the global Drupal community to introduce people to Drupal. The session aims to provide awareness of Drupal basics and its community. Attendees will leave with an understanding of what Drupal is and how to get started with the software, the community and Drupal.org.
Web accessibility checkpoints in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
User Experience Design The UX designer should consider the accessibility standards in mind while defining the UX of the web portal. UI Design When building the UI elements and styles, accessibility should consider. Factors like color of text, the contrast of images, navigation elements, etc should be considered here. HTML The html should be generated by following the web accessibility standards defined.
5 Tips For Digital Marketing Agencies To Optimize Your Content Calendar
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It takes more than routine blog posts for your content marketing to have your desired impact on the bottom line of your organization. Of course, you have to be ready to hire a digital agency that guarantees to catapult your content calendar right where it can handle the heat. We understand how much stress it can be to understand and implement these steps. Hence, we've focused this post on highlighting and explaining the best strategies that any digital agency can adopt to optimize your content calendar. Here, take a look at five of our most trusted strategies.
Web Accessibility Guidelines - What and Why it matters
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines was conceived by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) with a motive to make web and digital technology accessible for all. The first version of accessibility guidelines, WCAG 1.0 was released on May 5th, 1999. It continued for about 10 years and in 2008, WCAG 2.0 was released. In addition to web properties, 2.0 also takes care of other digital assets like PDF, Documents, Google Docs, Spreadsheets, mobile apps, etc.
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Once the installation of Mattermost in Centos 7 has been completed and everything is working fine as mentioned in the article (Install Mattermost on Centos 7) you can follow the below steps to complete the configuration part. 1) Create the System Admin user and set up Mattermost for general use. a) Open a browser and navigate to your Mattermost instance. For example, http://<IP-ADDRESS-OF-MATTERMOST-SERVER>:8065.
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Mattermost's open-source Zoom plugin enables users to start, join voice, video and screen-sharing meetings. The plugin is installed by default and can be activated by following the below steps. 1) Go to System Console > Plugins > Zoom to configure the Zoom Plugin. 2) Enter the Zoom URL and Zoom API URL for the Zoom server, for example, https://yourzoom.com and https://api.yourzoom.com/v2 respectively.  3) Set the API Key and API Secret, generated by Zoom and used to create meetings and pull user data:
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Mattermost is an open source, self-hosted, team communication platform. There are desktop clients for Windows, MacOS, and Linux and mobile apps for iOS and Android. Mattermost is a better choice for enterprises who want a robust solution with no per-user fees like Slack. When considering the performance point of view, it is having lower CPU usage because they are written in Go and React and hence provide an added advantage based on other competitor chat environments.  Let’s see how we can install Mattermost on Centos 7.
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We had earlier published a list of Fortune 500 companies and their websites. We have evaluated these websites and have identified those that run on Drupal. The following is the list of Fortune 500 companies that use Drupal for their corporate websites. Do note that this data is for the list of fortune 500 companies for year 2016. The current list of fortune 500 companies using Drupal is also available.
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US has around 19500 incorporated cities across the country. The cities ranges in sizes from a few people to millions of people. For cities that are of a reasonable size, a metric that is more interesting than the actual size of the city is the rate at which the city is growing. The rate indicates whether such a city is a good target for finding businesses that are growing and making money. Here is the list of the 100 fastest growing cities in the US for all cities that are greater than 50,000 people in size. The data is based of the 2017 census data and estimates for populations from the previous 2010 census data Download the full list of 19500 cities
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Organizations use to deliver annual reports to their different stakeholders to describe their operations and financial conditions for the past year. This is a routine activity for all Medium to Large scale organizations. Even in this digital era, organizations use to create these reports in PDF format, targeting users who use to print these reports to read them. Being in PDF format, users find it difficult to read online. Here comes the need of presenting it in an interactive format, where users can read it effortlessly and navigate to different sections as per their needs.
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We were fortunate to be part of ‘DrupalSouth 2018’ – the longest standing Drupal conference in the Asia-pacific region.   The two-day event was held at Hotel Realm in Canberra on its tenth anniversary. This year’s event was of special significance since the past attendees of DrupalGov and DrupalSouth came together for this event – increasing the attendee list, to over 500 participants.
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International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS), an autonomous institution under Government of Kerala, India mandated with propagation, promotion and  development of Free and Open Source Software has organised the Drupal Global Training Day (GTD) in Trivandrum on September 29, 2018  from 10.00 am to 5.00 pm. Zyxware Technologies provided the technical partnership for the GTD. The event set the momentum to form the Drupal Community in Kerala.
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This summer, I had the opportunity to intern at Zyxware under the mentorship of Mr. Vimal Joseph. My objective was to develop a proof of concept chatbot that demonstrates how artificial intelligence can be used to improve a user’s on-site search experience. As my first experience in a professional environment, this internship gave me valuable insights on what it takes to work as an engineer in a real world setting. The challenge I was tasked with also helped me expand my knowledge on web design and the emerging field of machine learning.
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What are Pseudo-Fields? Pseudo field is a field that you can add to any content entity type. For example, you can add a pseudo-field to nodes, taxonomy terms, users, paragraphs, etc. You can hide this field in the UI, but you cannot change it's value, because the content of this field is generated via the code.