Qual é o valor hora, na média, de um profissional que saiba Drupal (nível iniciante)?
É possível que alguém consiga pegar trabalhos free lance, trabalhando também em horário comercial? E pegar trabalhos do exterior, dá também?

The Lullabot team talks about the process of building Buzzr.com.

Release Date: May 21, 2010 - 7:18am Album: Lullabot Podcast Length: 75:24 minutes (29.61 MB) Format: mono 44kHz 54Kbps (vbr)

Eu queria exportar um banco grande, feito em MySQL, usando o phpMyAdmin. Porém, quando tento abrir o arquivo exportado dá um erro (acredito que seja porque o phpMyAdmin não conseguiu exportar tudo). É uma base de dados do Drupal que está em produção, que eu quero importar para a minha base local.
Como faço para conseguir exportar os dados do banco? Se não der, quais seriam as tabelas principais que eu tenho que exportar, do Drupal?

Gostaria de saber como faço para descobrir a versão do Drupal que estou usando.

Valeu

Almost 3 years ago, I wrote a article called How Drupal Will Save The World. In that post, I talked about the importance of usability to Drupal. I also outlined how a more easy-to-use version of Drupal could lead to a shift in not only the way that websites are made, but it would also change the people who make them. Easier website creation is the key to changing the demographic of Drupal site builders.

I certainly wasn't the only person to notice that Drupal needed to be easier to use. And over the past 3 years, the Drupal community has made many efforts to improve usability and user interface. Probably the most noticeable user interface changes will be coming with the Drupal 7 release in the next few months.

Building a business

My article didn't really have any action items so much as it laid out several possibilities and some "what if" scenarios. Liza, Matt, and I had been mulling over this idea of improving Drupal usability for a while, unsure how to pursue it, when Liza began talking to Ed Sussman. At the time, Ed was president of Mansueto Digital running FastCompany.com and Inc.com. He came from a more traditional business and entrepreneurial background and he had ideas about how this could be turned into a business – a situation which could provide the financial foundation to keep the concept moving forward and allow a dedicated team really streamline the user experience.

Thus began a 2-year project with lots of user research, usability experimentation, interface wrangling, and basically rethinking Drupal's functionality and user interface from the ground up. Ed eventually left Mansueto and became the CEO of our new company. Lullabot became a co-owner of the company and invested many hours of development, guidance, and experimentation. We also brought in Karen McGrane, a prominent user experience and interaction designer whose resume includes the current New York Times redesign.

Most people don't want Drupal. They just want what Drupal does.

The result of all of this work is Buzzr, a complete reconcepting of Drupal. Buzzr is a user interface which sits on top of Drupal, allowing for easy one-click configuration, drag-and-drop layout changes, and simplified options. It's all Drupal underneath. We've just got a different interface. We flatten Drupal's learning curve by shielding site administrators and end users from Drupal's cockpit-like administrative screens.

Buzzr doesn't do everything that Drupal does, but it can do most things which most users want – and by building on top of Drupal, we've got lots of room for expansion with so many modules and functionality we can incorporate in the future.

Try it out

In case you missed the announcement, Buzzr went into public beta a few weeks ago at DrupalCon. You can visit Buzzr.com and start creating websites today. There is also a white labeled Enterprise Edition so that universities, corporate institutions, and other organizations can create their own customized web systems and give their users the ability to quickly create and edit their own Drupal sites using Buzzr's simplified user interface and hosting solutions.

Greg Dunlap (aka heyrocker) talks about the Services module, which is a way to make your Drupal site more "mashable" by either pulling in external data or serving it out. The services module is great if you need to integrate with an external application or if you need to provide service callbacks through a variety of different interfaces such as XMLRPC, JSON, JSON-RPC, REST, SOAP or AMF.

The services module was originally used frequently to have Drupal as a back end to drive a Flash front end, and now it's being used a lot to use Drupal as a back end for driving mobile applications on the iPhone, Android, and other mobile app platforms.

Dunlap gives a brief overview of the services module, future plans and the new version of services, and the Drupal 7 port. The corporate sponsorship that he mentions in the podcast is still pending, but if there are other companies or organizations who would like to see further development and documentation for the services module can feel free to contact Dunlap via his @heyrocker Twitter.

For more information, be sure to check out this DrupalCon presentation on Drupal as a web services platform using the Services module

Release Date: May 20, 2010 - 10:48am Album: Drupal Voices Length: 10:08 minutes (9.32 MB) Format: stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (cbr)

Bom dia a todos,

É o seguinte, fiz a instalação do módulo forum e o do Taxonomy access permissions. O que queria era ter dois foruns e determinado utilizador aceder a um deles e o outro utilizador aceder a outro. Ex:
Forum 1 : utilizador 1
Forum 2: utilizador 2
E nenhum deles conseguir aceder ao outro forum o utilizador 2 não consegue ver os conteudos do forum 1. Alguém me sabe dizer como poderei fazer?

Cumprimentos,
Samuel

Tim O'Reilly has been called one of the most powerful voices in the open source movement, and gave a keynote at DrupalCon San Francisco about some biggest trends that he sees on the web today. In this Drupal Voices interview, Tim talks about where Drupal can fits into the ecosystem of what he terms the "Internet Operating System."

O'Reilly saw very early on that cheap commodity software such as open source and open protocols of the Internet was starting to drive value towards large databases that were populated with user contributions. He branded this shift as "Web 2.0." He says that the fact that a lot of the value is now coming from massive amounts of data is a challenge to the idea of open source because it's not just about the code any more, but instead has a lot to do with additional resources such as infrastructure, business processes, people and these huge repositories of data.

O'Reilly sees the next big phase of the Internet as being a war between giants who are building out cloud services-driven platforms and are trying to control the repositories of data. He elaborated on this in his keynote as well as his most recent update on the State of the Internet Operating System. These huge data sets are in the cloud and enable a lot of the cutting edge mobile applications coming out today. The data are going to be owned by someone, and it's not going to be the small, open source developer who's going to own it. So where does Drupal fit into all of this?

O'Reilly still sees a future in independent developers, and that Drupal developers have to start thinking about how to share data between sites. He says that there needs to be new protocols for cooperation so that it's not just a few companies that control the future of the web. He also talks about the key to successful open source projects is whether or not it's able to create an "Architecture of Participation."

O'Reilly says that "Drupal is clearly becoming one of the largest and most important open source projects" due to the size of the community around it. He sees the that Drupal has been able to foster a "wonderful participatory community" by creating a context in which other people can contribute. He notes that Drupal developers may not get the same amount of respect as Linux kernel developers, but that other people in the tech community should take note of the size and diversity of community that has formed around Drupal. He sees Drupal as a platform that has helped to democratize the ability to create, and that Drupal represents the DIY spirit because it's an empowering technology that allows non-technical people to build complex, dynamic web sites.

For more on how O'Reilly sees Drupal fitting into the Internet Operating System, then be sure to listen to our interview or check out the video of his DrupalCon keynote:

Release Date: May 19, 2010 - 10:20am Album: Drupal Voices Length: 12:48 minutes (11.76 MB) Format: stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (cbr)

A Lullabot Business Case Study

Last month, I had the opportunity to speak at DrupalCon San Francisco. I had a great time speaking. I did a case study of Lullabot itself, in which I talked some about how the company is structured, some of our core beliefs, and about my own business ideas and strategies. (You can watch the slides and hear the audio here, or access the slides here.)

I'm a huge advocate of giving things away (creating value), and then using smart business models to capture some of that value. Part of what I talked about during this session was how to determine one's value as a Drupal shop. When I first came to Lullabot (about a month after Matt and Jeff founded the company), the company was swamped with work requests. Raising our rates was a great filtering mechanism for us, and also helped "buy" the free time that our awesome team members need to do things like write books, co-maintain an entire release of Drupal, and maintain four billion modules. But for us, it was a total guessing game. We basically raised our rates until we reached the point where we started meeting some pricing resistance. We've done careful tweaking of our rates over time, but we're at a point (after 4 1/2 years in business) that we're confident in our rates and very confident in the value that we provide for those rates.

Ariane Khachatourians talks about the DrupalChix group for Women in Drupal. She talks about some of the issues that come up at the Birds of a Feather discussion at DrupalCon including confidence and protocols for dealing with sexism either within their workplace or local Drupal community. Again, since there's no official hierarchy within the Drupal Community for dealing with these issues, they spend time working on fleshing out the guidelines for IRC and providing one-on-one support if issues do come up either in the DrupalChix group on g.d.o. or within the #drupalchix IRC channel.

There's been some talk of setting up more formal mentoring, but other than that there's no official mandate or direction that Drupalchix is headed as it's mainly a social and support group that meets face-to-face at DrupalCon and in some of the larger Drupal communities.

Photo by rainbreaw

Release Date: May 18, 2010 - 11:19am Album: Drupal Voices Length: 10:53 minutes (10.01 MB) Format: stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (cbr)

Susan Stewart (aka HedgeMage) talks about some ways to help get involved with contributing to the Drupal project and participating within the Drupal community. She gives anoverview of the Drupal issue queue, and a brief description of all of the different issue statuses. She also talks about some of the differences between the different Drupal IRC channels and some of the cultural standards of the community.

Susan also mentions some important issue queue tags for beginners such as the Novice tag, Accessibility tag, or D7UX usability tag.

Also briefly mentioned is Angela Byron's Core Development Summit presentation on an effort for making it easier for beginners to be able to test patches. More details on this infrastructure effort can be found at the PIFR demo.

Release Date: May 17, 2010 - 12:12pm Album: Drupal Voices Length: 12:54 minutes (11.86 MB) Format: stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (cbr)