Energy - A New Vertical Market for Drupal

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During the Fall of 2014 Function1 teamed with the BACnet Group – Drupal, Acquia, and Commissioning & Green Building Solutions, Inc. (CxGBS®)  to submit a response to the GSA RFI Green Proving Ground program.  It required a “Title” so we called it “Open Energy - A New Paradigm for Energy Dashboards”.

REST Easy with the Splunk REST API

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The REST API in Splunk is something that we can use in so many different ways. In this blog, I am going to go through some commands that I made to create a dashboard that could be useful for a team.

 

There are so many useful searches you can use within the REST API, from configurations, configurations, inputs, lookup, searches.

 

For my client, we wanted to be able to see permission users had, active users, top all users, and what authentication system was being used. The REST API was perfect for this!

 

Success Story: Wycliffe College - Rebranding a Religious Community

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WycliffeCollege.ca

The Opportunity:

After successfully creating & deploying a redesigned, responsive Drupal solution for The Toronto School of Theology (TST), our team was approached by Wycliffe College (an instrumental member of TST’s ecumenical consortium) with the hopes of realizing similar gains for their own website.

Dude, Where's My Block?

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Blocks have gotten a whole lot of core functionality in Drupal 8.  The new interface can trip you up as you get used to the changes, especially when you start adding Views blocks into the mix.

Drupal 8 Block Overview 

Drupal 8 blocks are managed from the same location as in Drupal 7, Admin > Structure > Block, but the new menu, with tabs for Block Layout and Custom Block Library, is your first hint that something has changed under the hood.

Drupal 7 vs 8 - Vital Modules

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A colleague recently shared an article with me that listed a number Drupal modules which the author felt were vital components of an enterprise build. 

Installing Eclipse Groovy Plugin

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     ­­­As of WebCenter Sites 11g, Groovy is supported when used as an element type. It is suitable for when what you want to implement some business logic/computation in a familiar JAVA syntax-scripting environment (1). Groovy Language has a lot of features that are GROOVY! You need to install the Eclipse Groovy Plugin (if you are using eclipse as your IDE) for better development experience, error checking, code completion, code coloring, and etc. 

How to install Eclipse Groovy Plugin:

Wellness at Function1

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In 2014, Function1 launched a Wellness Program with the goal of promoting a healthy workplace through fitness and wellness challenges.  We have run a number of challenges over the years, ranging from step challenges using FitBit devices to meeting personal goals.  The average length of the challenges has been 3 months and participation has ranged from 40% to 60%, depending on the challenge.  We have also incentivized participation through rewarding winning participants and/or teams with gift cards.

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