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Viewing "New York in Plain Sight"

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Brandon Bowersox

Jul 07, 2010

New York in Plain Sight is a large-scale photographic survey of everyday life on Manhattan’s streets and sidewalks by photographer Richard Howe. Here at OJC Technologies we have been cooking up ideas for how to present this amazing photographic collection online. The possibilities include a traditional Google Map-style presentation to navigate the city, a keyword search interface, or a directional/spatial way for people to travel up and down Manhattan's avenues.

Drupal 7 Media Module is Must-Have

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Brandon Bowersox

Apr 22, 2010

The Punch Line

Drupal 7 will ship with improved file and media handling built in. But the add-on Media Module is highly recommended for creating a truly user-friendly experience that allows content authors to add images, audio and video.

Open Top Ten from Tim O'Reilly

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Brandon Bowersox

Apr 21, 2010

At DrupalCon 2010, Tim O'Reilly shared his favorite open source technologies and projects. We've compiled a list of the top 10 cutting-edge open resources he shared in his keynote address. Tim is the CEO of O'Reilly Media, publishers of all the IT books with animals on the covers.

Drupal Gardens Tour

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Brandon Bowersox

Apr 21, 2010

OJC has been building "web condos" using Drupal and WordPress to make it fast and easy to launch a web site for a community organization, event, or project. Now Drupal Gardens takes the concept to a whole new level. They are unveiling a free online service to launch a Drupal-powered website without worrying about the hosting, installation, setup or ongoing security updates.

CSS3 Tool Tour

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Brandon Bowersox

Apr 21, 2010

CSS3 is becoming a reality, providing rounded corners, drop shadows, real fonts, gradients, animations and more. The support is good in Safari, Chrome, Opera and Firefox browsers, and most of these effects will just degrade harmlessly in Internet Explorer.

At DrupalCon 2010, Jen Simmons gave a great presentation on CSS3 and shared lots of useful tools. This screencast gives a quick tour of many of these tools and resources.

DrupalCon 2010 Keynote Highlights

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Brandon Bowersox

Apr 20, 2010

Dries Buytaert, the Keynote speaker and Drupal's creator, was introduced by Matt Cheney (Michael Cheney, from IGPA in Urbana, is Matt's dad!) Dries welcomed the huge crowd and celebrated the success and the growth of this open source movement. Five years ago, the first DrupalCon had 40 attendees. This week, over 3,000 of us have gathered at DrupalCon San Francisco. Our friends in Europe even organized their own DrupalCon events in airports in Europe after being stranded by the volcanic ash, Dries reported.

DrupalCon 2010 Core Dev Summit Highlights

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Brandon Bowersox

Apr 18, 2010

The first-ever Core Developer Summit was held Saturday at DrupalCon 2010. OJC Technologies was there to advance the accessibility of Drupal. It was a great day meeting and strategizing with about 150 of the (hard-)core developers who have made Drupal great, including Drupal creator Dries and the amazing Angie.

Drupal 8 Form API Accessibility

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Brandon Bowersox

Mar 31, 2010

Attached is a PDF of a proposed lightning presentation for the Core Developer Summit at DrupalCon 2010.

A Better Twitter Interface

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Brandon Bowersox

Dec 03, 2009

The Problem

Screenshot of a typical Twitter post with a short piece of text, such as 'This is earth-shattering', followed by a long meaningless link URL

  • I know and trust the author of this tweet.
  • But from the context and the ugly URL I cannot tell what it is.
  • Guess what...I don't bother clicking.