Posted by Karim Ahmed on February 24, 2008 at 10:17 am
Hello,
I'm a developer who has recently discovered/started playing with Drupal. Please could one of the Fastcompany development team publish a write-up of the customisations you made and which existing modules were used here?
I'm sure lots of their modules are custom. However you can find out a lot more information by going to this forum post about Fast Company's new Drupal site: http://drupal.org/node/221481
There is, indeed, quite a bit of custom code. A lot of it focuses on things like the custom feed reader, recommendation systems for suggesting related contacts and interesting articles, and UI tweaks that turn a Drupal UI into the design envisioned by the FastCompany user experience team.
As Joel mentioned, there are a few writeups on drupal.org, as well as the Achieve Internet web site. The core functionality is built around Views and CCK, Organic Groups for discussions like these, and Views Fastsearch for the 'find people/find a blog/find a group' search pages. Moving forward, we're looking at solutions like Solr faceted searching in part because Drupal's built in search indexing is a performance bottleneck. It's a very powerful system for low to midlevel sites, but for very large high-traffic sites, search really needs to be split off from the main servers to avoid impacting general site performance.
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March 21, 2008 at 1:44am by Joel Throckmorton
Hi Karim,
I'm sure lots of their modules are custom. However you can find out a lot more information by going to this forum post about Fast Company's new Drupal site: http://drupal.org/node/221481
Also, in this podcast they talk about Fast Company's new website: http://www.lullabot.com/audiocast/podcast-51-ed-sussman-incbiznet
Hope this helps, happy Drupaling!
- Joel
May 28, 2008 at 4:49pm by Jeff Eaton
There is, indeed, quite a bit of custom code. A lot of it focuses on things like the custom feed reader, recommendation systems for suggesting related contacts and interesting articles, and UI tweaks that turn a Drupal UI into the design envisioned by the FastCompany user experience team.
As Joel mentioned, there are a few writeups on drupal.org, as well as the Achieve Internet web site. The core functionality is built around Views and CCK, Organic Groups for discussions like these, and Views Fastsearch for the 'find people/find a blog/find a group' search pages. Moving forward, we're looking at solutions like Solr faceted searching in part because Drupal's built in search indexing is a performance bottleneck. It's a very powerful system for low to midlevel sites, but for very large high-traffic sites, search really needs to be split off from the main servers to avoid impacting general site performance.