Agaric Design Collective

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Web Development for Nonprofits

We at Agaric consider nonprofit organizations to be one of our core constituencies, although a majority of our work is probably for groups without official 501c3 nonprofit status, for businesses, and for individuals. We try to stay in tune with the needs of organizations for good, whatever their tax filing status.

 

pwn: let users grant permissions they own to roles (delegate only their own privileges to others)

drupal allow user to administer only permissions they have
drupal give lesser permissions
permission delegate
drupal grant permissions you have

Agaric and the world needs a

Drupal role permission to set permissions for any permission it has

http://gotdrupal.com/videos/manage-drupal-permissions-more-easily

 

Installing Tweetdeck on Ubuntu 9.04 64bit

So you wanna get TweetDeck rocking out on Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit?

First, you have to get Adobe Air installed:

Grabbed most of the important bits from http://www.bauer-power.net/2009/05/getting-adobe-air-to-work-in-ubuntu-9...

 

Views 2 Theming - The Presentation

the slides for my presentation on Views2 Theming given at design 4 drupal at the MIT Stata Center on June 13th, 2009 in room 141....

 

Drupal Design Camp Boston this weekend, Providence meet tonight, Redesign sprint Fri, and a general camp in the works

This weekend Design For Drupal Boston promises to be the biggest Drupal event to hit New England since the 2008 North America DrupalCon, with 27 sessions proposed and nearly 200 registered attendees, including a number of current – and no doubt more future – Drupal stars.

Hastily donned hats off to the hard-working organizers, including Susan MacPhee, Kevin Flavin, and Christefano.

For more reasons to be proud to be a New Englander – as if marriage equality were not enough – upcoming Drupal events include, tonight, the Boston Meetup in Providence, Rhode Island on the occasion of a Lullabot invasion and this Friday, for people who want to help refurbish Drupal's home, Kieran Lal of Acquia helps bring a Drupal.org redesign orientation sprint to MIT. And all these events are free.

Agaric has five people attending and submitted five sessions to the Design Camp.  (Looks nice and balanced?  Well, Kathleen Murtagh has images in content, version control, and Zen-sustainable theming, leaving Views 2 theming and RDFa semantic goodness to a couple of the rest of us.)

If you have a burning desire to present, Susan asks for developers to help cover fundamentals.  Or if you feel you'd have liked to help organize a camp and wonder why you didn't know about the planning of this one, not only is it not too late to volunteer this weekend, you can still get in on the ground floor of the second New England DrupalCamp in two months.

 

Drupal 7's jobqueue doesn't guarantee your hard drive won't be hit by a meteor

Meteor safety is surely the most important metric in open source free software, and we must warn you: Drupal 7's new Jobqueue doesn't guarantee your hard drive won't be hit by a meteor.

This has been a public service announcement from Agaric Design Collective. Good day.

 

Powering Drupal search with Apache Solr

After having spent some weeks in the US with my colleagues from Natick, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island, I am back in Germany now. We went to DrupalCon DC together which turned out to be an inspiring event for a Drupal newbie like me.

 

Thank you Drupal

I'm writing this blog post to mark the occasion of acquiring the domain name http://agaric.com. It was a slow and expensive process and something I didn't think we'd ever do, mostly because of not wanting to give in to the evil practice of domain squatting hoarding that's going on out there.

 

DrupalConDC Drupal Association session

[This is a blog not a note on Agaric because it contains my opinion and not the elusive collective opinion... not that any of my notes have that either]

Question about why the Drupal trademark is not transferred to the Drupal association.

Dries replied:

The Drupal Association could decide tomorrow to throw me out.

If it comes to a split...