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SemTechBiz: Schema.org, Knowledge Graph, and prospects for Drupal
Last week’s SemTechBiz San Francisco was packed with insightful keynotes and sessions showing trends for semantic web technologies. The hot topics of the conference were Google’s, Yahoo’s and Wikidata’s Knowledge Graphs, as well as the adoption of schema.org, an initiative launched 2 years ago by the major search engines to standardize and promote structured data on the Web. An increasing number of companies and organizations presented how they support schema.org and semantic web technologies in their... More
How-To with PHP
Part of the "all you need to know to become a great Drupal developer" blog series.
Performing a quick search online, many vocal critics of PHP air it's perceived shortcomings in comparison to "real" programming languages. Yet if you cut through the noise, W3Techs estimates that more than 80% of websites whose server-side programming language is known is coded in PHP. So in other words, it pretty much runs the web. This post will introduce PHP in it's simplest form and explore it's evolution into a modern, mature programming language with established standards and reusable libraries.
To start... More
Business Schools Leading the Way
Posted on Monday, June 10, 2013 by Chris Hartigan RSS
Some schools talk about building online communities to foster collaboration and many schools just dream of it. But a few schools actually do it. Oxford University’s Said Business School (SBS), which recently launched its Global Opportunities & Threats: Oxford initiative (GOTO) (http://goto.sbs.ox.ac.uk) is one of the few, and their motivation for doing so may surprise you.
Of course there’s a lot of social learning going... More
Chunking Content for Task-centric Mobility
Posted on Monday, June 10, 2013 by Geoffrey Bock RSS
Mobile apps should empower me to solve problems and take action. How does this happen? And when it comes to powering mobile apps, how does Drupal make a difference?
Let me continue the conversation that I started in my recent blog post, “Making Mobile Know About Me,” and identify some next steps for making content smart and useful.
Grocery Shopping. Let’s begin with an example about one of those familiar chores of everyday life: grocery shopping. Here in the Boston area, Whole Foods is my local grocer I’ve... More
Bring Musicians Together
Posted on Friday, June 7, 2013 by Natalie Staines RSS
BandHappy began as just a name and came to R2integrated in need not only of a brand identity, but of a unique, first-of-its-kind web experience that would serve as a musician social community portal for teachers and students. The founders of BandHappy wanted a site that could connect teachers and students located anywhere in the world to facilitate music lessons with the help of streaming video. The site required eCommerce capabilities to support BandHappy’s service-fee business... More
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