There are a number of different authentication methods available for integrating with Google Apps. These include OpenID, OAuth and SAML amongst others. At a first glance, it's not always entirely clear on the differences between them and when you may wish to use one over another. Here's a brief overview which hopefully makes this a bit clearer.
OpenID
Read more »In this short screencast a variety of security holes are shown, as well as some malicious things which are made possible due to these lapses.
Read more »CivicActions is really excited to be a Silver Sponsor of DrupalCon San Francisco this year, and beyond our sponsorship, we're hoping to enrich everyone's experience with a variety of sessions proposed by our team members. Take a few minutes to check out out this awesome lineup of session proposals.
Read more »Quick demo of what we are going to discuss
Original session was posted here
With launch of iPad and NexusOne - iPhone/Android application market can't be ignored. Both these technologies has great potential to use our existing web based tools such as drupal. You can totally use drupal to manage/update your iPhone/Android native application.
Today is the final day to vote for sessions at Drupalcon San Francisco. My proposed session Show Don't Tell: Guerilla Usability Testing will outline quick usability testing strategies to bring users to the decision-making table.
Read more »Time is flying by. There is now only 7 weeks to go to DrupalCon San Francisco! I'm really looking forward to it I have to admit. Although I've visited the US a fair bit, I've never been to the west coast, not to mind say San Francisco. Dermot is coming over with me this time, and we're planning on taking an extra week to travel around and do some sightseeing. We're also going to visit a good friend of mine, Aimee, in LA, and then travel back up to Sacremento to visit other friends.
Read more »If you've tried to import a Drupal database dump with the cache table data still intact, you've probably at one point or another run into a "max_allowed_packet" error coming from MySQL. An easy way to address this is to increase the setting in my.cnf.
Read more »Drupal.org's use of CVS as a version control system has long been a thorn in the side of the project and its contributor community. As many newer (and sexier) version control systems have popped up over the years, most of us have switched to something else for our day-to-day work, and the only time we need to remember how to use CVS again is when we are interacting with Drupal.org. It's a pain even for the most "blue-blooded" among us, and for some, this is a blocker to contributing back altogether.
Read more »If you know me, you know I am a junkie for three things: interacting with young people, the many aspects of sustainability, and my job. From my work in the
Read more »Back in 2000, Eric Brewer introduced the CAP theorem, an explanation of inherent tradeoffs in distributed database design. In short: you can’t have it all. (Okay, so there’s some debate about that, but alternative theories generally introduce other caveats.)
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