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May 9, 2012 — Janne Kalliola and Saku Sairanen from Exove are speaking at the next Drupalcamp Finland on June 2nd in Yle Iso Paja in Pasila.
Janne’s presentation compares Drupal to other LAMP based content management systems, such as WordPress, Joomla!, eZ Publish, and Concrete5.
Saku will talk how brands move to digital and specifically mobile domain, powered with responsive design and Drupal.
More information about the event can be found at www.drupalcamp.fi.
We at Exove participate in Drupal community actively, both in global and local level. Giving back to the community is part of the normal work — this time we designed and implemented the Drupalcamp site.
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May 7, 2012 — Our CEO Janne Kalliola visited Drupal Business Days in Vienna last week and gave a presentation about Growing and Managing Drupal Organisations.
The slides of the presentation are now available at slideshare, and also browsable here:
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May 3, 2012 — Drupal’s menu system does not scale too well. We found this out, again, during a customer project, where we were using Drupal to create a documentation site for a software product. The site has a fair amount of content. With several versions of the software and around 10 language versions of each, there are approximately 100K nodes in the node table. Each node has a menu item.
It became apparent quite early during development that this just couldn’t work. By default, when one edits a node in Drupal, Drupal loads every single menu item in the system into a select-element, so one can select the parent for the node’s menu item. Ever tried rendering a select-element with 100K options?
Luckily, the developers of the Drupal core are aware of the issue. This can be found in the core menu module:
// The menu_links table can be practically any size and we need a way to
// allow contrib modules to provide more scalable pattern choosers.
// hook_form_alter is too late in itself because all the possible parents are
// retrieved here, unless menu_override_parent_selector is set to TRUE.
if (variable_get('menu_override_parent_selector', FALSE)) {
return array();
}
Using this variable, we were able to create a custom module that replaced the badly scaling monolithic select elements on the node edit, node type edit and taxonomy term edit forms. The new version uses one select-element per menu level, and fetches the children of each newly selected menu item via AJAX.
We then later took the custom module, and published it as a sandbox project on Drupal.org. During the project application review process we were given some good feedback about the module, and kept working on it. Eventually, the project, now called Menuperformance, was granted full project status.
For additional information, download the module on the project page, or read the benchmark results about the performance improvement the module can give.
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Apr 16, 2012 — Kovan kasvumme jatkuessa haemme lisää avainpelaajia tiimiimme. Nyt tarjolla on useita merkittäviä positioita:
- Myyntipäällikkö uusasiakashankintaan ja asiakkuuksien hoitamiseen.
- Projektipäällikkö ohjelmistoprojektiemme läpivientiin.
- Support services manager vastaamaan sekä sisäisestä että ulkoisesta tukipalvelustamme.
Lue lisää avoimet työpaikat -sivultamme ja laita hakemus vetämään.
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Apr 10, 2012 — Exove’s CEO Janne Kalliola will be speaking in European Drupal Business Days in Vienna, Austria on May 4th about growing and managing Drupal organisations.
Janne will share his secrets how to build a Drupal vendor company from scratch, and also how to develop expertise to run a Drupal powered business.
The session will include also tips Janne has learned while growing Exove from one person to over 50 in six years.
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Mar 23, 2012 — Scoopshot won yesterday the best mobile service award and got also a honourable mention on the best UX design category in Grand One gala in Helsinki.
Grand One is the biggest digital media competition in Finland, organised by Markkinointi & Mainonta newspaper and RE: Media.
The mobile services jury described Scoopshot as follows (my translation): A unique business concept with true focus on mobile. The service combines innovativeness in exploiting the mobile platform with a very stylish implementation. The service creates new revenue possibilities for third parties.
The UX design jury wrote the following statement for the honourable mention (again, my translation): The service innovation can be replicated into a global success story. The user experience expands over their service and glues the other stakeholders into a single entity. The user is in the center of the service – power to the people!
The quality of entries were really high this year, and there were several startups, such as Tinkercad and Kiosked, awarded during the night.
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Mar 9, 2012 — Scoopshot has been selected as a finalist in GrandOne (only in Finnish) digital media competition.
Read our competion entry at (only in Finnish).
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Feb 27, 2012 — Haemme kasvavaan joukkoomme mobiilikehittäjää toteuttamaan viimeisimmän sukupolven mobiilisovelluksia web-teknologioilla. Lue lisää työkuvauksesta.
Kaikki avoimet työpaikkamme löydät avoimet työpaikat -sivulta.
We are looking for a mobile developer to join in our growing team. Your job is to develop cutting edge mobile apps with web technologies. Read more on the position page.
All our open positions can be found on our open positions page.
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Jan 17, 2012 — Estonian Drupal activist are organising a Drupal Estonia Hackday on this Friday (January 20th). We are proud to participate to and sponsor the event.
For more information, please visit at http://drupal.ee/drupal-estonia-hackday-registreerimine (in Estonian).
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Jan 12, 2012 — Our client Scoopshot has struck a deal with Metro International, the world’s largest newspaper. After positive results on the first markets, Sweden and Denmark, Metro is now expanding the coverage worldwide.
Congratulations to the staff of Scoopshot. Excellent work!
Read more at Euroinvestor.co.uk.
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