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On debian systems (and perhaps on other linux distros as well), the foreground color of comments is blue by default. This looks quite unreadable on black background, which is the case for most terminal windows.

Although Drupal has a good built-in search functionality that coumes out of the box, sometimes a client wants something more advanced and feature rich that scales well for a quickly growing website.  This is where Apache Solr comes into play.  Apache Solr is an open source project that is used on many high traffic websites like Zappos.com and is well integrated into Drupal.

Creating a  Git repository is simple, using the excellent BitBucket.org service. It can be a chore to go to the bitbucket website and manually creating new repositories every time, though. Since it is bitbucket, and Atlassian, they have exposed a very nice RESTful API on top their service offering. Below is an example of how to create a new repository from 'curl' command-line ...

Tikkits.com will be the exclusive online point-n-click seat selection and ticketing service for Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy shows in Los Angeles (June 2, 2013), Atlanta (June 23) and Tampa (June 29). Tikkits.com thanks the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) and Paracha Entertainment for their continued trust in the Tikkits.com team.

SpinSpire participated in the Florida Drupal Camp 2013 on April 20, 2013 with presentations on

1. "Build a Complete Business App with Webform Module" by Jitesh Doshi
2. "Data Visualization" by Pramod Jain

Using the services module in Drupal to expose CRUD operations on nodes is a great way to expose RESTful service from Drupal. All you have to do is to enable rest_server sub-module and create a REST server in it. Now you start fetching your nodes in XML, JSON or many other formats. Now for testing, the 'curl' command line browser was used to make HTTP requests in an automated fashion. Making read-only requests to fetch nodes as JSON was easy.

SpinSpire has launched DataWizard.me, a data visualization portal for the wind industry.  DataWizard.me automates daily data collection, insertion into a database, and charting of wind data at various levels of aggregation.  A custom chart, called Wind Rose, has been created to visualize wind data in polar coordinates.  This Drupal-based portal uses Google Chart Tools to create charts in SVG.

tikkits.com is proud to be the exclusive online ticketing with point-n-click seat selection for Sunidhi Chauhan's shows in Orlando on March 31, 2013 and Atlanta on April 19, 2013.

WIth point-n-click seat selection, you can know the exact location and position of the seat you choose. 

Zen is one of the best themes (in terms of solid, clean foundation) out there. And 7.x-5.x release is even better than previous ones. It comes with a drush command to create Zen subthemes in seconds. It also has very clearly laid out and documented CSS stylesheets in the css folder that allow easy modification of styles.

On December 17, 2012, SpinSpire successfully launched AgileConnection, an online community serving software professionals on the topic of agile development.  AgileConnection has a community of tens of thousands of users and thousands of content nodes.