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Dialog Consulting - Solving Your Hard Computational Problems

Dialog Consulting provides services in Drupal Web Development and Scientific Computing. We aim to empower people by making modern, cutting edge concepts in computing and web technologies work for them.

We are based in San Diego and like to work directly with our customers. We believe in-depth understanding of your overall business strategy and current issues through direct interaction, coupled with personalized, on-site training after delivery of the project, is key to the success of any project. However, we can also work efficiently with remote customers and will give you the same level of personal attention as our local customers are receiving.

Optimize Your Server Hardware For Drupal

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In the area of Drupal performance tuning, server hardware often receives little or no attention, and the possibilities of server-grade flash storage are still completely overlooked. Here I put the spotlight on hardware trends from the past 12 months and explore what it might mean for Drupal performance. This was one of my presentations at SANDcamp 2010 and resonated well with attendees.

Image Handling Feature

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This feature reflects my session at DrupalCampLA 2009 Image Handling the Sane Way. It includes a new content type Picture Story containing an ImageField, plus an Image Gallery block and a Random Image block.

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Blocking spam with Mollom

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Spam statistics per May 21, 2010. Mollom works!

I noticed my site was getting hammered with comment spam attempts over the past two days. To ease participation and interactivity, I have comments open to anyone who cares to leave a comment (not that it happens often). To prevent waves of spam I use the Mollom module, and it works absolutely great.

DrupalCamp LA 2009

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Drupal Camp Los Angeles 2009 - August 8-9th While I loved Drupal at first sight - what's not to like about its clean design and powerful options? -, I definitely and permamnently got hooked at DrupalCamp LA 2008 thanks to the cool vibe and amazing energy among the 450+ participants and the great reception of my presentation. It also started my active involvement in the Drupal community, and so it is a foregone conclusion that I will go again this year. I will be presenting a revised version of Image Handling with ImageField and ImageCache - Regain Sanity and Control.

DrupalCamp San Diego - Learn, share, be inspired

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SANDcamp (aka DrupalCamp San Diego) will take place Jan. 24 and 25, 2009 at Platt College. This will be a great place to meet other people using Drupal, and you can learn from experienced Drupalers about all those features you always wanted to check out (and which to avoid!) as you expand and grow your site.

Of special interest to newcomers and intermediate Drupal users is a tightly linked series of sessions, starting with The One Hour Web Site and progressing through various add-on module sessions, letting you build your own, solid, feature-rich site using current best practices.

I will be presenting a few sessions:

Dialog Consulting is a proud sponsor of SANDcamp 2009.

Piaweber.com

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Pia Weber is a Registered Yoga Teacher, artist, health nut, food aficionada, gardener and much more. She needed a place to display and share her many talents and interests with clients, friends and family. Her site is both, whimsical and professional, lighthearted and profound. As such, Drupal provides a solid and versatile base to work from, and after some trial and error we came up with a look and feel and site organization which does justice to her person.

For Pia a website is only a means to an end, and technology should get out of the way as much as possible. Story creation and image upload are simple point-and-click operations. Menu integration is handled through a (mandatory) choice from the available taxonomy terms. Images are automatically reformatted behind the scenes. The result is a clean look and dead simple operation, so that Pia can concentrate on what she does best: Sharing Yoga info, her art pieces, health tips, cooking recipes and stories from her garden, making the world a nicer and better looking place one step at a time.

Visit piaweber.com

Salvadorbahia.net

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A multilingual travel blog site about the beautiful city of Salvador in the state of Bahia, Brazil. This image-heavy site needs to be as accessible as possible for content contributors, so we chose to enable comments by anonymous visitors and unsupervised account registration, and use the Mollom module to prevent spam and vandalism.

Work on the backend included an upgrade to the latest Drupal version, revision of the information architecture and the multilingual setup in English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese (with Italian and German to be added soon). Image upload and reformatting facilities are easy to use and completely transparent for content authors, yet perform a host of functions in the background as new content is added: Create thumbnails and reduced size image versions, automatically place images of the right size on each page for a consistent look, and dynamically rebuild image galleries and the random image display.

Visit salvadorbahia.net

Turn Key Sites Now Available

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I'm excited to announce the first of our turn key websites, the VERSATILE site. All the features you expect from a cutting edge website - articles, blogs, forums, visitor comments, sidebar with blocks, etc. - coupled with the ease of maintenance of a personal blog. Except it is your very own, great looking site, customized with your logo, name, slogan, site mission and content.

DrupalCampLA 2008

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Over the weekend of Sept. 13/14 I attended DrupalCampLA, a gathering of Drupal aficionados from all over Southern California and beyond. A truly amazing and empowering experience!

My talk 3 Months Later: An (Almost) Beginners View of Drupal was very well received and gave me a major confidence boost. Victor Kane blogged about my talk here. How cool is that?

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