The Gateway to 21st Century Skills (www.thegateway.org) is a semantic web enabled digital library that contains thousands of educational resources and as one of the oldest digital libraries on the web, it serves educators in 178 countries. Since 1996, educational activities, lesson plans, online projects, and assessment items have been contributed and vetted by over 700 quality organizations.

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At 10jumps we will observe the strike tomorrow, 18th January 2012 for 12 hours to show our support to the protest!

About thegateway.org:

The Gateway has been serving teachers continuously since 1996 which makes it one of the oldest publically accessible U.S. repositories of education resources on the Web. The Gateway contains a variety of educational resource types from activities and lesson plans to online projects to assessment items.

The older version of the website was on plone. The team hired us to migrate it to Drupal. It was an absolutely right choice to make. Given that, with Drupal comes a lot more benefits. Read more »

SAP ES Workplace: An awesome site for understanding and testing all SAP delivered services:

SAP has a site called "ES Workplace" - Enterprise Services Workplace where all the ES delivered by SAP are consolidate in one place. The aim is to improve adoption of these services and for learning and testing purposes. Read more »

At 10jumps we use Drupal heavily. Drupal offers  very flexible, robust and rich UI experience. It is the platform we feel confident of proposing to our clients for their websites.

One of our recent research work at 10jumps alongwith Acquia was to tinker around with Drupal and SAP integration. Read more »

It is fairly trivial and useful to add one or more custom submit handlers in Drupal. in other words, when the user hits the submit button, you can write own handlers to interrupt the normal flow and perform custom actions on the form data. Like what you ask? Read more »

Party time!

We have made big jumps in the Internet marketing techniques in the last decade. In the past the banner advertising worked well and very little was known about the search engine optimization until Google came up.

The right formula for a perfect online presence of any business is:

Internet marketing success = perfect business model+ awesome website+ Great website traffic

Now if we try to focus then we can summarize the above in 5 comprehensive steps. Read more »

You are probably familiar with the movie renting and now movie streaming site Netflix. If you are a subscriber, you might have noticed that Netflix is transitioning to a movie streaming site and is probably the leader in that space. However, with the move in this business direction also came massive technical challenges for Netflix.

Their existing data centers were simply not sufficient to meet the spikes in growing demand, storage and computing requirements. Netflix published a very informative paper illustrating their problems and how they are addressing the needs by leveraging the cloud (especially Amazon AWS).

The paper talks about two very interesting aspects:

1. How they are using the cloud as a infrastructure (Amazon EC2) and a platform (Amazon Simple DB).

2. How they manage to sync the data between on premise and on the cloud storage.

At large companies like SAP there are similar challenges to address where the customers have large amounts of data and want to migrate gradually to the cloud. Netflix achieved this with their in house bi directional data replication system called IR (Item replication). Data replicators like the one from Sybase are a good fit for such a use case.

The data would have to be modeled to sit as key value instead of highly normalized RDBMS data sets.

Netflix paper also covers some fundamentals which are important for any cloud architect. Specially the application of the CAP theorem.

So if you are thinking about how to leverage the cloud for the next generation architecture, this paper is a good starting point with enough technical architecture pointers as well as a great use case.