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Let’s Get Personal: Personalization and Privacy
Posted on Monday, May 20, 2013 by DC Denison RSS
Personalization is as old as marketing itself. Give each customer what they want, how they want it, when they want it. New technologies, platforms, and devices give us the tools to reinvent this venerable approach, expanding its reach and effectiveness. To wring the maximum value out of personalization, you have to track your results, constantly re-evaluate what you are doing, and adjust your strategy accordingly. In Part Two of this 5-part series on personalization, we consider how personalization impacts privacy, or not.
For many companies, personalization is an exciting prospect ...... More
Automate review for security risks with source code analysis
Security issues are created in custom code when developers cut corners during development or don't make proper use of the APIs, among other reasons. There are several ways to discover such issues, including peer-review, code scanners, vulnerability scanning, and even by being exploited -- tho certainly undesirable! While each has its place and individual merits, let’s talk about security-focused source code scanning for Drupal and preview Acquia’s static code analysis, in development for Acquia Insight.
Being open source... More
Percona Live 2013 MySQL Conference
Posted on Thursday, May 16, 2013 by Pim van der Wal RSS
I recently attended the Percona Live MySQL conference and wanted to share some of the exciting activity in the MySQL community. For our databases we use Percona Server 5.5 and standard MySQL replication with a multi-region offering using Tungsten Replicator.
At the conference there was a lot of attention for MySQL 5.6. The first aspect to hit the spotlight was the fact that Oracle had produced another quality release among worries that under their stewardship MySQL would slowly be killed off. There are a couple of aspects that still warrant attention like the number of bugs in the official... More
Sign up for free Drupal for project managers - mini-course
Are you a project manager working for a company adopting Drupal? Are you new to managing Drupal projects? This course is the right one for you!
This course follows the life cycle of a Drupal project from start to finish and back again and is based on our full day Drupal for Project Manager’s course.
I did a call-out internally for co-teachers on this course, and I was delighted by the response. In fact, the materials for the course reference a book chapter by Amye Scavarda... More
Drupal's Impact on Higher Education will be Reflected at DrupalCon
Posted on Thursday, May 16, 2013 by Chris Hartigan RSS
Nearly 20% of the registered attendees at next week’s DrupalCon are from higher education institutions. Will you be one of them?
Drupal is having a major impact in higher education and based on the registration list alone it appears that the higher education community will have a major impact on DrupalCon. The sheer number of schools represented, the diversity of the institutions in terms of size and scope, and the range of titles and responsibilities of individuals from those schools all point to next week being a great opportunity to share best practices, network with peers, and learn... More