דרופל - לינווייט | Linnovate - drupal israel

While we don't regularly work a lot of customers in the gaming industry, the next site has been an exception.
First the specs specifically required Drupal and there where many challenges and issues involved.
Secondly we were very eager to give feedapi a solid workout...

Overview

I'm off to Szeged, carrying an unusual cargo: a dozen bottles of home brewed, 100% open source, Drupalager!

My hope is that the customs, both in Israel and Hungary, will let me pass with this precious lager, and that we can all benefit from it's wonderful taste in Szeged.

See some great photos from our Drupalager party, on the beach, last week.

Linnovate is not three years old YET. But even so, looking two and a half years back, at all we achieved, brings satisfaction and warms the heart.

We've worked quite hard these past years, and only (or should I say 'already') now, we see the signs of first sprouts, that will hopefully turn into healthy fruits.

No!

I had a weird feeling that the registration to Szeged Drupalcon is lower than before.
At the time of writing these lines, we're about 7 weeks away from the conference, and with high expectations, left by the successful Drupalcon in Boston (864 registered and paid attendees), the number of registered attendees to Szeged, is 352.

Having set the high threshold of +1000 attendees, this number seems a bit low.

One of our clients mailed me with an urgent problem: His site crashed!

Quoting (bolded made by myself):

The amount of testing we need to do with each update makes it almost impossible to keep updating risk free. We would have to test for so long, that by the time we're done, the next module will be ready. It's just too complex a site with too many contrib modules. Maybe if we had a full time person just on that.

Despite what the "community" says, my tendency is to only update security changes.

While universities usually gain their prestige with break-through researches and discoveries, smaller institutes do so by showing how their graduates integrate in the industry, in key positions.

In order to succeed, they have to:

1. Identify the dominating technologies of the near future
2. Teach them to the students, and teach them well

not an easy task...

Two years ago, we founded Linnovate.net, the first Drupal shop is Israel (a small, unknown province of the Middle-East). Linnovate chose Drupal as it's almost unique tool of work, as we've recognized that a business can be built upon this wonderful CMS.
Being one the firsts to identify Drupal in Israel, and the first to actually use it as a strategy of a company, we've grown to be the biggest, and the most knowledgeable Drupal shop in Israel.

Often we need to theme blocks by type (for example blue block, red block, green block), regardless of their position (e.g. their region) or the module supplying them (e.g. module & delta).
Phptemplate lets you theme a block using a template file (hereafter mentioned as simply "tpl"), following a defined naming convention. When theming a block, phptemplate will look for the right tpl in the theme directory. The possible names are nicely described in the handbook.

Mollom is the new start-up of Dries, Drupal's founder.
It is defined not as a spam-protector, but as a Content Monitoring service. In simple words - when you use Mollom, you permit Mollom to decide for you, whether the content is legible or not.

A while ago we were asked to re-build the website of the public committee against torture in Israel. With very limited funds, the committee needed a modern site, to help them gather materials, for the benefit of researchers and journalists, as well as to document its activity.