All the internet is buzzing – Google has launched yesterday the official Facebook competitor – Google Plus. Even though one already existed – argh, Orkut, that wasn’t a big of a competition for Facebook. But Google+ (Plus) looks like it is. It’s biggest promise as far as I can tell is fixing the weird privacy [...]
Author Archives: Andrei Gherasim
DrupalCamp Bucharest 2011
I might have mentioned in a tweet or two about Optaros being present at DrupalCamp Bucharest 2011 in early May. I had a presentation there about using Drupal + Page Syndication module to create a content marketing platform. Well, here’s the presentation: OView CMS presentation from DrupalCamp Bucharest from Chris Fuller on Vimeo Please do [...]
Dark day for AWS
I really don’t want to be in the shoes of the guys over at AWS NOC – this is not a good day for them. Some of the Amazon Web Services hosted in the US-EAST zone are affected (as of the time this article has been written) due to an issue related to EBS re-mirroring. [...]
jQuery Mobile alpha released
jQuery team released the much-awaited mobile development framework. Built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI framework, this framework provides a lightweight, progressive enhanced, flexible and themeable foundation for mobile development. Browsing through the features we find that this framework is compatible with all major mobile platforms and browsers, such as: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Palm [...]
Solr, Tomcat6 and Ubuntu issue
If you run into issues when starting solr on Ubuntu 9.04 and the symptoms are as follows: Oct 6, 2010 11:33:31 AM org.apache.solr.core.SolrResourceLoader INFO: Solr home set to ‘/opt/solr/example/’ Oct 6, 2010 11:33:31 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Error filterStart Oct 6, 2010 11:33:31 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Context [/solr-example] startup failed due to previous errors [...]
Adding All-In-One SEO to custom content types in WordPress
Wordpress version 3.0 adds multiple improvements and new features to this popular blogging platform, one of the most important being custom content types. I’ve made use extensively of the new feature when developing the new optaros.com website, but soon we realized that we needed to integrate our custom types with the AIO SEO plugin. This plugin, with more than 5,000,000 downloads, does an awesome job on setting custom titles, keywords or description per post, in order to improve your SEO. In the current version (1.6.11), it has no support for attaching the editing form to a custom type, but integrating that looks pretty easy.
