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Freelancing vs. Full time W2 employee

Submitted by jflorez on August 24, 2010 - 1:50pm

When you decide that you want to work as a software developer, there are generally two options for how you want to do it: freelancer or employee. Deciding which direction is best suited for you depends on numerous factors. Freelancing brings with it independence; you’re your own boss, you set your own schedule, and work when you want. However, this also means that you and you alone are responsible for all facets of the process such as invoicing, business development, advertising, and client management.

Drupal Ajax Form Validation

Submitted by jwhitener on July 15, 2010 - 4:15pm

Ajax form validation is one of those features typically tasked to a Drupal Developer. Here is how it is accomplished in Drupal 6.

Let's say we were adding Ajax form validation to the user registration page. You need to create a jQuery event listener in a javascript file.

Drupal Connect Continues The Acquia Podcast

Submitted by Steve on June 23, 2010 - 2:48pm

As some of you who follow Drupal Planet might have noticed, I have "taken over" the Acquia Drupal podcast.  I've always followed Drupal podcasts, including the Acquia podcast. I had noticed that there had not been any new episodes put out in a while, and so I approached Robert Douglass and Bryan House of Acquia at Drupalcon San Francisco back in April about continuing the podcast .  They agreed, and so I took it from there.

Configuring Apache Solr Multi-core With Drupal and Tomcat on Ubuntu 9.10

Submitted by Steve on June 18, 2010 - 5:38pm

One of the things I've had to do recently is set up a development server that has multiple site with Apache Solr so that each site has its own index in Solr.  After searching the internets for information on how to do this, I found two sources that contained part of the process, but not put together in a way that worked for me.  

Creating Custom Path For Solr Search With Custom Filters

Submitted by Steve on June 13, 2010 - 2:35pm
One of the most commonly used features in Drupal is path aliases; that is, the ability to define a custom, clean URL that accurately represents the content contained in that page.  A basic example is creating a mysite.com/about-us URL for an About Us page.  This can also be done in Apache Solr with search result pages.  It's a bit more work than setting up an alias with the Pathauto module, but the end result is a page of customized search results listed at a custom URL.  In this post, I'm going to take the URL of mysite.com/search/apachesolr_search/?filters=type%3A

Adding Custom Fields to Apache Solr Search Results

Submitted by Steve on June 6, 2010 - 6:27pm
As I mentioned in my previous post on adding a custom sort to Solr, this post is about something that is even simpler; adding a new field to the search results.  In our particular use case, we wanted to add a CCK image field to the results.  To add a slight twist, we needed to add a different image depending on the content type: the user picture for a profile node (created with content_profile module) or a CCK imagefield named field_main_image from the other content types.

Creating Custom Sorts In Apache Solr

Submitted by Steve on June 5, 2010 - 3:33am

I attended Drupalcon for the first time this year in San Francisco, and of all the sessions I attended, one that really stood out for me was Apache Solr Search Mastery, put on by Robert Douglass and Peter Wolanin of Acquia and James McKinney of Evolving Web.  It was like the first time I read "Pro Drupal Development", in that it really opened my eyes as to what is possible with

Our New Website

Submitted by jflorez on June 3, 2010 - 11:32am

Drupal Staffing and Consulting has officially changed its name to Drupal Connect.

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