Drupal Acquia Partners in Central London

Quite surprised by this, but Redkey is only one of four registered Acquia Partner in Central London:

p.s. and Acquia seems to have listed us twice in that map :)

Drupal developer wanted urgently

We are looking for a Drupal developer to build a site from the ground up, to start within 2 weeks.

The project is for a startup in the financial services area, and will involve novel use of technology to solve interesting financial challenges.

You must have:

- 3+ years of PHP development experience

- Commercial Drupal 6 custom module and theme development

- Good communication skills in written and conversational English

Ideally, you should also have:

- Experience developing and customising Organic Groups

- Experience in building e-commerce sites and/or implementing online payment systems

Please provide a CV and links to recent Drupal 6 projects that you have completed. Please email these to redkey.skills@googlemail.com.

Look forward to hearing from you soon!

Page-fold myth proven

We often hear how designers and web developers get clients worked up about not having important content 'below the fold' because users may not scroll down to see it.

Here's empirical evidence why this is all a myth:

The myth of the page fold: evidence from user testing

Online trust and reputation (dissertation copy)

I've uploaded my old dissertation on the subject of trust and reputation in distributed systems to scribd.com here. Hopefully it'll now end the broken links wild goose chase (apologies for that). It's also embedded below for convenience. More stuff on the topic at an old blog, http://socap.blogspot.com.

A Framework for Decentralised Trust Reasoning (PhD Thesis, University of London)

Drupal Twitter module direct message patch

My patch for sending Twitter direct messages with the Drupal Twitter module is now in the 6.x-2.x-dev version.

Links:

• The issue ticket with the patch
• Twitter module