Development Seed Blog

The map looked wrong, and when I inspected it closer I saw that it was wrong,
very wrong. Members from Canada were showing up in New Orleans, priests living
in the Vatican appeared in Florida, and the World Bank’s staff was placed in
Washington state instead of Washington, DC.

We found out today we'll be mentors for two of Google's Summer of Code projects, and we are excited. In sum, 20 Drupal projects were accepted in the Summer of Code, which is great news for the community.

Myself along with Ted Serbinski from Lullabot will mentor William White. Will's project will incorporate SMS elements into Drupal websites, and I'm particularly excited to work with the driver based API he develops to integrate with SMS service providers. It will be great to see what kind of use cases there are out there first so that whatever system Will comes up with incorporates common SMS elements into Drupal websites.

As I fired off requests to Google's geocoder API to plot several thousand points on a map for a recent project, a quick calculation showed that only about a third of the data returned valid latitude and longitude information. The data set I was dealing with was international - mapping members from nearly every country - so I knew I would have some issues, but only a third successful?

Hello from Sunnyvale California. We are ready for the start of OSCMS tomorrow when we will present on multilingual Drupal sites and the i18n contributed module. A lot has happened in the past several months to work toward a more multilingual Drupal, as well as improve upon the already great i18n module. Jose Reyero, the developer behind the i18n module, went to Budapest last month to meet up with Karoly Negyesi and Gabor Hojtsy to put their heads together and make advancements for Drupal 6 and multilingual handling.