Computer Inside Your Computer: How To Use VirtualBox (PDF Guide)

Posted on by Leave a comment

VirtualBox is a free, open source, cross-platform application for creating, managing and running Virtual Machines (VMs).

You’ve heard a lot about Linux and you’d love to try it out, but you don’t know enough to take the plunge and install it alongside Windows – maybe you’re worried you’ll wipe all your files off in the process. Besides, you’d like to have another computer handy so that you can look something up if you get stuck, but you don’t have another computer. This is it.
Continue reading…

 

Migrating a Web Site to Drupal

Posted on by 1 Comment

This paper examines how to smoothly transfer content, users, interface, and metadata to Drupal.

Drupal’s advantages for running enterprise web sites are well established by such companies as FedEx, The Economist, and The White House. But many who would like to use it hesitate because they fear loss of assets now managed by their current site’s platform, or expect the procedure to transfer those assets to be prohibitively difficult. This paper examines scenarios for migrating from other Content-Management Systems (CMSes) such as Vignette, Jive, FatWire, ColdFusion, and Joomla. It evaluates reasons for migration, describes migration methods and tools, and suggests best practices.
Continue reading…