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2009
Jul
31st

Fresh Handy Drupal Modules - July 2009

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by Mike

Drupal 6 is seeing some great handy modules being released over the last few months. With the sheer amount of projects being created on drupal.org its a job in itself to keep up with whats already out there. We're increasingly finding there's a module for "that" when a project needs something.

2009
Jul
16th

Dropbox - Offline file sharing made easy

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by Rob

For those who are not familiar with Dropbox then you are missing out on what is the simplest and feature rich file sharing application I have used.

I came across this when I was having trouble with the Windows XP offline files feature. Essentially I had a few users using a mapped drive to a server and then sharing files within. The troublesome bit comes when you want to take these files offline and work on them away from the office. The offline files feature of Windows XP was becoming a constant pain where certain users synchronisation had stopped working or folder structures did not update correctly.

2009
Jul
14th

Open Atrium Rolls Out The Stable

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by Mike

The good guys at Development Seed rolled out a rather hotly anticipated product this afternoon known as Open Atrium.

The web based intranet platform including several built in common features such as groups, projects, case tracker, per-user blogging facilities and a rather useless shoutbox facility.

Development Seed have pulled together a lot of strong Drupal components to provide some great functionality in a really quite flexible architecture. On top of the off the shelf modules such as Views and CCK, and some home grown Development Seed releases such is as Spaces and Contexts.