Intranet of 90K+ developed on Drupal for a Fortune 20 company

I am glad to be part of a team who deployed Drupal as an Intranet platform for a Fortune 20 telecom company.  This is the first time that Drupal was used on an open surce LAMP stack to create a corporate Intranet for over 90,000 employees. The project was a complete rewrite of the existing intranet that had been in operation for over half a decade. It was accomplished in less than 12 months from conception to full deployment, ramping up from just a one member team to a 17 person group with only 5 full time developers

With lots of Cheers and Tears - Happy New Year

Last year was AWESOME, I cannot let it go with out mentioning that I was blessed with lots of Happiness and Joy. I am really very thankful to my Lord Allah Subhanawtallah that HE blessed me with a Son, we name him Saad. Then I came back to my Home Country Pakistan after spending three years in United States, I donot have words to mention about my feelings the first time I stepped out of the aircraft when I landed at Allama Iqbal International Airport, Lahore. I came to Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah, and paid visit to Haram-Makkah (House of Allah) twice. The first sight was magnificant, it was full of attraction, and your heart feels some kind of energy that tells you that this is the House of Allah who is the creator of all creations.

Optimizing/Caching Poll's Block

We all know that Poll is a core module which ships with Drupal. After installing this module we can setup poll and we can place a "most recent poll" block any where in region, usually its on a front page. I investigated this module and I found that it takes 20-25 queries to load most recent poll block and when a user submits a vote on that poll it does a cache_clear_all. Which was like WOW, in addition to submitting a vote users were also clearing my cached data. Optimizing or Caching poll's block for any kind of user (authenticated or anonymous) is like piece of cake, but figuring out how to do it was really a big pain in a neck.

Advanced Workflow Management

Advance Workflow Management will help workflow admin define single workflow with states adding a layer of groups at top of that; access control will be based on groups. This module will create a new tab "Workflow Groups" through which admins can create various roles as workflow groups, assign group role to the user (author/editor/publishers) along with the role that manipulate workflow.

Index additional information using node_api hook

I was going through one of my projects and I came to know that how simple it is to insert additional information into your site's search indexes using hook_nodeapi. A comprehensive details about hook_nodeapi can be found here.

Following are the steps involved to make this happen:

  • Create a module that implements hook_nodeapi, lets say example_nodeapi()

function example_nodeapi($node, $op) {
  // Function definition here
}

Choice of a Hell :)

A man dies and goes to hell. There he finds that there is a different hell for each country. He decides he'll pick the least painful to spend his eternity. He goes to Germany Hell and asks, "What do they do here?"

He is told "first they put you in an electric chair for an hour. Then they lay you on a bed of nails for another hour. Then the German devil comes in and whips you for the rest of the day".

Urdu (اردو) Translation on Drupal and Google

Recently we managed to get approval of Urdu translation on Drupal at Drupal Localization Project. We started with very few contributors who are working very hard to translate all strings/interfaces for Drupal Core and Drupal contributed modules.

Urdu translation for Drupal can be found here. I am looking for people who are good in english to urdu translation to contribute to this project.

Movie: Kurbaan and Faisal Shahzad

Last week I got a chance to watch a hindi movie "Kurbaan", I was surprised to see how Karan Johar was able to create this kind of action movie without support of any external sponsorship.  You guys know what i mean Image removed., funny part was that all main characters were shown as Pakistani (Saif Ali Khan, OM Puri) and they used Indian soil and girl (Karina Kapoor) to accomplish their mission...

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