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Drupal News: Dries Buytaert: PayPal developer community using Drupal

Drupal continues to rack up successes among large developer communities, with x.commerce joining Twitter, which made the move last month. X.commerce is a new division of PayPal that serves as an open, central meeting place for over 700,000 developers for eBay, PayPal, Magento, and other eBay properties.

Drupal News: LevelTen Interactive: Learning Drupal - Part 1

I try to always start any blog post with a pretentious-sounding quote, so let's go with:

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"

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Drupal News: Acquia: A story of an intern at Acquia

The history of my engagement with Acquia started a while ago — well, a couple of months. Considering how fast Acquia is growing, I'd call that "a while ago" around here!

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Drupal News: Digett: Discovered the Display Suite Module for Drupal 7

Yesterday I ran across a module called read more

Drupal News: Aten Design Group: Extending the subscriptions module: node reference subscriptions

Extending the subscriptions module can be very useful if you're feeling a little entrapped by its default capabilities. This is something we dealt with while working on a redesign for JAARS.org.

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Buzzwords: the secret language of CRM

Last month, the eminently readable and undeniably talented Ginger Conlon wrote a post about buzzwords on the 1to1 Media Blog (which is one of the first things I read each day, and you should too, because it quite nicely puts things in a customer-centric frame of reference). She asked about buzzwords people hated, and she got a barrage of vitriol about verbiage people were tired of.

CRM Evolution 2009

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Virtual Lead Generation: CRM in Virtual Events

With the recession eroding travel budgets, the traditional trade show is in trouble. The trend started five years ago, as the expense of events caused cost-conscious managers to eliminate attendees fr...

How to Choose a CRM Vendor

CRM is a critical technology that companies use to generate additional sales, especially during tough economic times.Join us for this exclusive online Webcast to learn how to choose the right CRM vend...

Tweeting for Customers: A Twitter Primer for CRM

Unlike most business tools, Twitter started as a purely social messaging service. It has since evolved into a powerful application for business. More accurately, Twitter hasn't changed all that mu...

PHPBuilder.com: PHPBuilder.com Founder Passes Away, Leaves Indelible Legacy in FLOSS Development

Sad news today from PHPBuilder.com - Tim Perdue, the founder of the PHPBuilder.com site and contributor to the SourceForge project as one of the original developers has passed away at 37.

Script-Tutorials.com: Autocomplete with PHP, jQuery, MySQL and XML

In this new tutorial from Script-Tutorials.com they show you how to combine PHP, jQuery, MySQL and XML to create an auto-complete box with drop-down suggestions.

Carson McDonald's Blog: Google OAuth for Installed Apps PHP Example

Carson McDonald has posted an example of how to use the Google OAuth for Installed Apps tool to authenticate users.

Gonzalo Ayuso's Blog: Display errors on screen even with display errors = off with PHP

Gonzalo Ayuso has posted a handy tip to his blog today about showing errors even with "display_errors" being off in your application (could be helpful in debugging those difficult problems).

Twitter Error 417 âÃÃ

Recently I had to deal with Twitter avatar upload for a Twitter application. Everything went very well, but when I have prepared everything for the upload query, the only server response I got was Error 417.

Since I used cURL, I tried to deal with different headers, but with no luck at all. I found the solution at MSDN website. The correct string is:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(‘Expect:’));

Some Godaddy Coupons for April 2011

For those who use Godaddy.com, I’d like to share some coupon codes. Here they are:

SAVE 15%* off your purchase of $50 or more. Just use source code gdbb1728

Take 10% off your order. Simply enter gdbba22

SAVE 20%* off your purchase of $65 or more. Just use source code gd9bb
Hope it saves you some money.

Google Adsense Check Reissue: The Only Method That Works

Recently I decided to switch to Electronic Funds Transfer for Google Adsense, since it’s more quick and convenient for me. I have already received some checks and I decided to credit them back to receive funds via Western Union Quick Cash. I’ve followed Google advices, and went to the following link. I have tried filling this form about 10 times, trying different values for Payment Amount (Checks are in USD, but my reporting currency is EUR).

PHP: strtolower for Russian and Cyrillic

If you need to work with Russian text in PHP, you may notice that functions that are related to CaSe are not working as expected. I mean strtolower, strtouper, ucwords, and so on. In order to get what you need I suggest to use mb_convert functions. Here is the example:

<?php
$string = "Строка";
$string = mb_convert_case($string, MB_CASE_LOWER, "UTF-8");
echo $string;

//output is: строка
?>

You can check reference table for functions, I think you will find more useful functions for you.

How to Fix Broken Outlook 2010 PST File

Recently I have upgraded my Office to Office 2010. This version looks very interesting and I really like its look, that is especially related to mail. I liked it so much that I have decided to switch my default mail client (The Bat!). Especially I liked the instant search panel, that showed all linked messages.

Facebook And eBay Team Up To Breathe New Life Into Social Commerce

“We’re at an inflection point”, eBay CEO John Donahoe said from the stage at Innovate, eBay’s brand new developer conference that launched today in San Francisco. “We’ll see more change in how consumers shop and pay in the next three years than we’ve seen in the last 15 years”.

New Heyzap Update Puts Your Favorite Android Games Up Front

Mobile game discovery platform Heyzap has come a long way since its first foray into the mobile space, and today the company hopes to shake things up again with a new update to their Android app.

Trazzler Gets $1 Million From Star Investors, Takes a Page From TwitterÃÆÃÂÂÂ

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At first glance, Trazzler— a travel site that focuses on unique, local destinations— doesn’t seem like an obvious bet. With a handful of employees sprinkled across Florida, California, and Spain, it’s a small startup that operates in a highly competitive market.

Twitter Looking To Hire A Government Liaison In Washington D.C.

According to a job post today, Twitter is looking for a government liaison to serve as a point person for the company in Washington D.C. The staff member will be the first D.C.-based employee for Twitter.

The post reads:

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