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Hi! My name is Adrian Liem. I’m an online strategist and web specialist located in Vancouver, BC. I’m currently on a leave of absence from my job at UBC. Here’s what I’m up to in the meantime:

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Posts Tagged ‘open source’

WordPress Network Domain Mapping with Symlinks

First a warning: this post is about to get as deep into tech talk as I ever like to get. If you’re looking for anything even remotely resembling the kind of conversation you’d typically have with me over coffee, you’ll be thoroughly disappointed! But if you’re a fan of WordPress with geekward leanings, this might be of interest. Ok, so now onto the post.

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3 Drupal Tips from the Trenches

Building a new site in Drupal is always a learning experience. Whether it’s your first Drupal site, or maybe you’re a seasoned pro but now need to build out a site with some new functionality you haven’t tackled before – just about every Drupal project takes time and some careful decision making along the way. I still have lots to learn, but here are three tips from what I’ve learned so far.

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Drupal or WordPress: Why not both?

There’s been some growing chatter lately about what’s in store with Drupal 7. Curious to learn more, I was reading up on the Drupal 7 User Experience Project and as I scanned through the pages, I noticed something: the Drupal 7 User Experience Project site is using WordPress! This may seem innocuous at first, but it signals something that is becoming a growing trend, a move away from earlier days when developers in different corners of the open source community would duke it out and take jabs at one another – we’re starting to see decisions made based on the sound judgement of common sense. And when it comes to selecting an open source tool, for example deciding between Drupal and WordPress, we’re seeing that you don’t always have to draw a hard line in the sand.
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