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Written by Jonathon Whitener on November 30, 2010
Recently, a client approached us to create functionality for their Drupal site similar to what Zappos.com does, but based on user activity of the site. The idea is that we would present the user a map, and plot the latest user activity update as a point on the map using geocoded data based on IP...
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Written by Anonymous on October 14, 2010
The other day while hanging out in IRC, I was pinged by katbailey, the Lady of the Lovely Voice (I could listen to her talk for hours) with a question about sorting in Solr when a sort field doesn't contain a value.  In particular, how can you control whether nodes without a value in the sort field...
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Written by Anonymous on June 23, 2010
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...
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Written by Anonymous on June 18, 2010
One of the things I've had to do recently is set up a development server that has multiple sites 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...
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Written by Anonymous on June 13, 2010
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...
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Written by Anonymous on June 6, 2010
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...
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Written by Anonymous on June 5, 2010
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...
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Written by John Florez on June 3, 2010
Our new name more closely aligns with who we are today as an organization. After initially starting out as a staffing company specializing in finding Drupal talent, we have now evolved into a full-service firm that provides Drupal development, consulting and training services to more than 100...
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