Linnovate has helped Swifto restructure it's core services and provided services concerning node.js, mongodb and performance tuning.
During the project we got involved with different aspects of Swifto's technology and business goals (Lior one of our founders actually joined Swifto because he liked the idea, technology and team).
The National Roads Company (better known as the department of public works - Maatz) is one of the largest websites in the Israeli public service (as for now at least) and it's using Drupal. The website sets high standards with regards to the quality of public services (needless to say - only as far the website goes... we have nothing to do with the quality of the roads themselves ;) ).
The past 3 weeks where insane.
Utterly insane.
If you haven't been following the news - one of Israel's biggest civil protests has been going on for more then a month.
I won't go in to the reasons and dramas behind the protest but like many protest in our region lately social-media, smartphone use and the internet are key enablers for the transparency and organization ability of the crowd.
http://ohel.org.il is now live.
It's main goal is to enable true discussion through the fascinating protest that is going on in Israel these days.
The site was built using the ideal drupal distribution and was put in place during the past weekend with Raz and Gavri's help.
This has the potential to grow to a real life example of Direct Democracy.
This is also a fascinating use of ideal which was utilized in the commercial/brand space till now.
Let's see how it can be used in politics ;)
Here is a small snippet I've used on http://iroads.co.il/ to add a magnifying glass overlay when a user hover over a lightbox icon.
Simple CSS hover won't do the trick here because we can't give a (visible) background-image when hovering over an image, so we append a div using jQuery and position it with CSS.
Drupal.behaviors.appendMagnifier = function (context) {
// Append magnify div on hover
$("a.imagefield-lightbox2").hover(
function(){
$(this).append('
');
},
function(){
Strauss is a one of the biggest players in the food industry in Israel (you might know it by the brand Sabra Salads in the US and Europe).
In it’s move towards stronger digital media presence and customer engagement, the Strauss team decided to crowd source ideas for their salads, dairy, coffee and other divisions.
The idea was to create a platform for users to share ideas, comment and vote upon them, engaging with the Strauss brand.
The Edmond & Lily Safra center for brain science is one of the leading brain research institutes in the world. When planning the site we wanted to give each lab in the center a space to mange their own research activities, publications and events. We also wanted the possibility to feature this content in the site wide perspective.
We recently had a client request to search inside user's uploaded Documents for some online tenders.
Dupal's apachesolr and apachesolr_attachments modules with Apache's solr do the work but we have an exotic language and.. exotic challenges...
When extracting text from the uploaded PDFs - the uploaded Hebrew PDF indexes the words backwards (not being aware to Right To Left text)...
We started using GIT SCM for all the new development projects.
GIT's advantages are widely discussed elsewhere- it is fast, efficient, and is a DVCS.
The reason that is important is that it's much faster than SVN and the branching is so easy you don't think about it much as you develop (much less SVN merge drama :) )
One of my motivations (as the CPO in Linnovate - Chief Paranoid Officer) is not to open ssh for too much people in my production servers (not even to our developers!).
That was the motivation behind git-pull it provides a useful mechanism which lets developers easily update the code of a development site.
(right now this module can actually be used for both SVN and GIT code updates)
Setting up this module requires some Operating System configurations, the reason is file system permissions guidelines of a Drupal site (the user which runs the web server should not have access to change or create any PHP files).
In this screen-cast I plan to show you a new module we are creating called - http://drupal.org/project/form_extended This screen-cast is brought to you by using the Sparkeo video platform - we helped to build
