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Posted 05 Mar 2010
Sharing Ideas at South By Southwest
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George DeMet
Founder and CEO
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Of all the conferences that Palantir attends every year, one of my favorites is the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, which is being held this year from March 12-16th.  SXSW brings together a wide variety of people from all areas of interactive culture for five days of panel sessions, book readings, film screenings, small conversations, and keynote presentations on a full range of thought-provoking topics (and the parties are pretty good, too!). For the past few years, we've been privileged enough to participate in a number of sessions, and this year is no different.

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Posted 01 Mar 2010
Better Know a Module: Menu Block (Part I)
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John Albin Wilkins
Senior Front-End Developer and Engineer
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Everyone knows the top-tier Drupal modules, but with over 5,000 modules available for Drupal it’s no surprise that many useful ones go unnoticed. As a public service to the Drupal community, Palantir is working to raise awareness of some of these unsung heroes.

In part 3 of our ongoing 5,162-part series, we present: Menu Block

The Menu Block module is a little-known module, but has actually been around since June 2008 and is our solution to the limitations in Drupal’s built-in site navigation.

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Posted 17 Feb 2010
We left our session proposals in San Francisco
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Larry Garfield
Senior Architect and Consultant
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Another year, another DrupalCon. But what a DrupalCon it will be! Set in beautiful (and hilly) San Francisco, "DCSF" is expected to be the largest DrupalCon yet. As well it should be, with Drupal 7 right around the corner.

As usual, Palantir will be out in full force, ready to teach the world about Drupal. While probably won't be able to present every idea we have, you can help decide which of our sessions are selected by casting your votes on the conference Web site before March 1. So what do you want to see?

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Posted 08 Feb 2010
We're not an underground success anymore
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Larry Garfield
Senior Architect and Consultant
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Filmmaker John Waters began his career as an "underground success", making films that mainstream wouldn't touch because they were too controversial, raunchy, or just plain weird. After several underground successes, however, he started to get noticed outside of underground and indie circles and move into the mainstream, where he had even more commercial success.

Many of his fans derided him for the move, claiming he was "caving into the man" or betraying his underground roots by adapting his style for wider audiences. In an interview for his 1998 film Pecker, Waters made the comment (sadly I do not have the direct quote handy) that the problem with being an underground success is that you then, by definition, cannot stay underground. And yes, that means you sometimes have to change things.

Why do I bring this up? Because Drupal has long since ceased being an underground success and is now a major mainstream open source player... and it's time that the community acted like it.

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