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The Aten Blog

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August Denver Drupal Meetup Recap

Despite the absence of those who had gone to DrupalCon Copenhagen, the August Denver Drupal meet-up had a good turnout and was a great success. A lot of questions were answered and three short presentations were given about theming regions, drush and data migration.

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Hiring Awesome Web Talent

Hi there, talented web developers and designers. You should come work with us; we're hiring and you'll love it here.

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Drupal for Journalism Educators: Poynter's News University Goes Live

Last week, Poynter's NewsU.org, the world's leading journalism education website, went live with a complete redesign. We're extremely pleased with the outcome of the process.

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Safely Querying CCK Data Types

Due to shifting data within the CCK schema, directly querying tables can be hazardous if not done correctly. Here's a look at how to safely query CCK tables, with a little help from the CCK API.

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Building websites for content

We take a content-first approach to building websites. That means that one of the first things we'll do in a project is ask you for all the content you plan on publishing to the web. Here are a few reasons why.

Goodbye 2008, Hello 2009

We took a few minutes to reflect on what was 2008, and what is 2009. Among the upcoming events are DrupalCon 2009 and a barrage of new work for the portfolio.

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Fresh Paint

The Aten Design Group website has a new look, new copy, and new technical platform.

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YouTube API Module in the Wild

Earlier this week I was able to release the first supported version of the YouTube API module I've been working on for the last couple months.

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Taming the Drupal 5 Permissions System

A few weeks ago I wrote a short how-to on allowing various roles to view unpublished content without having the 'administer nodes' permission in Drupal 5...

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Allowing Content Editors to View Unpublished Content in Drupal 5

A couple weeks ago we received a call from a client who was having problems giving content editors access to nodes which were in the unpublished state.

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