WorthPoint Development

USAButtonPoll.com Widget

Next week we will be releasing a widget for the USAButtonPoll.com site. This widget is sponsored by WorthPoint for one of our Worthologists, Jim Warlick. Jim's site has gained national attention during past elections and we look forward to his continued success during the upcoming Presidential campaigns.

WP Question Module: 2 in 1 module...or more

WP Question module is more than 1 module. Currently, it caters 2 important administrative function regarding WP Questions -- ask a question: The Unanswered Questions and Email Staff. It is up to 2 release respectively.

Poll - for member feedback

Learning what our members like and what they want from our site is very important to us! I am looking at different polling tools to see which one we want to use. Please try these out and let me know what you think of them!

Draft presentation about scaling the WorthPoint web site to 3M page views a day

We are working on a series of presentations about what we're going to do so the WorthPoint web site can handle millions of page views a day. Comments and questions are welcome!

WorthPoint Development status on twitter

Marc Benton, Director of Product Development, Arman Anwar, Director of Systems Development, and I are avid users of twitter. We can be found at (respectively):

http://twitter.com/marcbenton
http://twitter.com/aaanwar
http://twitter.com/AndyForbes

I have also set up a twitter feed for WorthPoint:

http://twitter.com/worthpoint

WorthPoint Hosts the Resurgence of the Northern Virginia Drupal User Group

Last night I had the pleasure of emceeing a tech forum where Jeff Whatcott, VP of Marketing at Acquia, Inc. gave a very informative presentation of his views on overall trends in the content management market, specifically in Drupal as a social publishing system

Proper Documentations Needed

Editing/modifying drupal core modules is not advisable. Having the core modules modified makes it harder to migrate to newer versions of drupal.
But certain unavoidable circumstances developers to modify the core modules. When these circumstances come, it would be very helpful to have proper documentation. It will keep track of the changes made.

Error in template.php

A repeating error is recorded by the watchdog. This error has been dealt already in the past (around 2 months). But it occured again lately. Further investigation led me to conclude that it was caused by a syntax in template.php. The said systax was written by the UVCMS.
Maybe one of our builds lately brought it back unknowingly.

Notify Module

Issue: E-mail Notification for AaQ and AaW
Members posting questions and “answers to questions” (AaQ & AaW) should have the option to get an email everything someone responds. The default should be to be notified, and the member should be able to turn the notification on/off after posting the questions/answer.

Solution: Notify Module

The WorthPoint Widget - Get Yours Today

As the WorthPoint Product Development Manager I get to work on all aspects of our site. One of the more enjoyable projects is the design and development of our widget. You can see it over here in our right rail ------->

Data loading SNAFU - what happened

What happened last night? Why did incomplete data get loaded? What are we doing to make sure it does not happen again?

Selenium vs. Watir?

Arman, Marc and I have been debating about which web site testing tool we should use. I emailed Chuck D'Antonio, the VP of Services for Acquia and asked him what Acquia recommends, and I got the following response:

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Andy,