Add Awesome Elements to Drupal with jQuery

Posted by Jon Reid on March 17, 2014 Development, Web Experience Management Drupal, Javascript, jQuery

 

Drupal 7 comes packed with functionality but what do you do when you want to implement some of those incredible visual elements that you see across the web? Cover flow like image galleries, fade animations, sliding page elements, smooth scrolling and other dynamic presentation effects can help push your site design to a whole other level.

Fortunately, Drupal 7 comes loaded with an answer in jQuery. jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library which contains many common DOM, event, effects, and Ajax functions. While Drupal 7...

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Charting Time over Time in Splunk

Posted by Kate Engel on February 17, 2014 Operational Intelligence Splunk

 

In the business world, people are looking at ways to constantly improve processes and systems. The only way to determine if progress is being made is to compare performance over a period of time to that same period of time a day ago, a week ago, a month ago, or even longer.

Since Splunk gives companies the ability to store and search data over a variety of time periods, this should be an easy task to do, right?

Not so fast…

While Splunk is driven by time, the answer is a little more complex than that.

Let’s say for example that you would like to chart...

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Accelerated Data Models in a Distributed Splunk Environment

Posted by Rupak Pandya on January 31, 2014 Operational Intelligence, Best Practices acceleration, Best Practices, Big data

Splunk v6.0.1 is packed with new features that enhance the user experience and can provide useful, lightning fast reports. For a full overview of the new features check out this link: Splunk 6!

One of the new features that provide users the ability to build exceptionally fast reports is data models. Users can use the structure provided by the data models to create pivot tables, all without knowing Splunk’s search language. Pivot users select the data model they are interested in, then point and click their...

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Drupal: The Case for NoSQL

Posted by Hani Atalla on January 23, 2014 Web Experience Management Drupal, MongoDB, NoSQL

It isn't an Edward Snowden NSA leak that the overwhelming Drupal population is running on the thirty-year- old and time honored conventional relational database management system (namely MySQL); or, to a lesser extent, on the more progressive object-relational database management system (namely PostgreSQL).  MySQL seems to be the embraced database because the contributed modules populous on d.org were designed with MySQL as the target database. Therefore, just work better with Drupal and cause less heartache for Drupal site builders and admins. ...

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A Quick Start Guide for Oracle Endeca Commerce

Posted by Mitul Patel on January 16, 2014 Web Experience Management Endeca, Faceted Search, Guided Navigation

Overview

As a consultant  working with Oracle products (first WebCenter Interaction Portal and now WebCenter Sites) the buzz words often abound and new strategic acquisitions regularly muddy Oracle's software offering waters from the perspective of developers, development managers and software strategists.  In this blog, I'll briefly talk about Endeca's offerings and then take a deeper dive into Endeca Guided search by describing what it is, some of the moving parts, and finally walking through an installation of Endeca in a simple windows environment. By the end you should have a...

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