Drupal Developer's Journal

1. Top 10 Open Source eCommerce Software (Joomla and Drupal) – Part 1/2 This is for all you eCommerce store owners. Previous posts compared 20 shopping cart software vendors, including Shopify and Volusion. This post is similar, but focuses on open source shopping cart softwares for Drupal and Joomla. The first post covers the following 5 products/vendors: Hikashop, SimpleCaddy, OpenCart, redShop and RokQuickCart. Each is described with a list of Pros and Cons. 2. Monitor Everything with Monitis – And do it easily with PowerShell – Part 13 This is a fun post that shows you how to monitor Out of Paper errors on your printers using Monitis Custom Performance Counters. You can see all of the out of paper errors, for all printers on a machine, with the line Get-Counter “\Print Queue(*)\Out of Paper Errors. A script is provided which calls this line and posts your printer... (more)

Acquia Announces Two New Board Members

BURLINGTON, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/24/12 -- Acquia, the leading provider of commercial solutions for Drupal, today announced the appointment of industry veterans Thomas Bogan and Paul Sallaberry to its Board of Directors. The new independent Board members bring to Acquia expertise in building global, enterprise companies and successfully scaling disruptive technology innovation into existing and new markets. They will help Acquia leverage open source Drupal to change the way enterprise businesses and governments leverage web content management and the Cloud to create cost effec... (more)

Top 10 Open Source eCommerce Software (Joomla and Drupal)

This is the second of two articles about open source ecommerce software that we hope will help web developers and system administrators in selecting what is best for their needs. The first article Top 10 Open Source eCommerce Software (Joomla and Drupal) reviewed: HikaShop, SimpleCaddy, OpenCart, redSHOP and RokQuickCart. The following article details our own analysis of the last 5 vendors in our article series. 6.   VirtueMart – http://virtuemart.net/ Founded in 2005, the company VirtueMart has developed a free and open source shopping cart software as an extension for Joomla.... (more)

Badgeville Launches Enterprise Cloud Connector Program

MENLO PARK, Calif., Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Badgeville®, the gold standard for gamification and the world's only Behavior Platform™, today announced the launch of Badgeville's Enterprise Cloud Connectors, a suite of SaaS connectors that provide plug-and-play integration into many of today's most widely adopted enterprise applications. Already integrated with more than 40 third-party systems, this program further expands Badgeville's leadership in gamification across the F1000 and interoperability for its client base of global enterprise leaders. Gamification techniques ... (more)

Should You Ditch Your Website & Developer?

When I first started my business, I thought projects would be clearly defined as web design or SEO. Oh was I wrong.  Projects, like clients, come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors. What may start out as a simple SEO project may lead into a full-blown website development. And this migration isn’t because I’m pushing web design on clients, it’s because the client has significant limitations with their existing website. Since I run into this often, I’m sure the average website owner does too.  If you’re trying to decide between updating your existing website or moving towar... (more)