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I was assigned a task to add more reports to casetracker module. This module is powerful. Anyway, it is not mature yet. There are only a few default reports. They are not enough at least for me and my colleage. In particular, the default reports just offer me to view list of all projects, my projects, all cases, my cases and advanced search. Well, what we want is all open cases, all resolved cases and a block to show my open cases.

Army also needs the power of Grid. Army usually is the largest organization in all countries. Army has lots of branch. General usually wants to command all army under-control just-in-time in face-to-face manner. So Access Grid would fit this requirement perfectly. Many armies have their own high-speed private network channels so they don’t need to care about quality and bandwidth. Army has its own spies and agencies. They produce high-volume of information. These information must be mined to analyze confident, accuracy, and probability. In short, all information must be prioritized and rearranged as fast as possible. Historical is essential here. Data Grid could be used to store images captured by private satellites for further mentioning. Computational Grid also fits in purpose to simulate how to deal with a war correctly. War is just a kind of complex chess.

Today, I was assigned a task to setup a new website as fast as possible. I’m not a web designer. I just know the contents. Fortunately, I have a Drupal already installed as intranet site. Anyway, it is just an intranet site so it is located in subdirectory of the main web, says http://www.sample.com/intranet. And then I would like to have http://www.sample.com/conf2006. I cannot use the same database of intranet because the intranet is completely private site. I don’t want anyone to read my secret contents. So I decided to use multisite feature officially provided by Drupal. As a result, I have 3 sites as follows.

As you might notice, howforge.com has just been upgraded to Drupal 4.7.0. This is a big move because I had no time to upgrade since Drupal 4.7.0 beta 6. Anyway, I did it so smooth like before. In addition, I also reorganized all third-party modules to store in specific sites only. Since my development machine is running inside VMware player, I modified a few configurations to make it compatible with this hosting machine.

is being used to develop sidebar plug-ins. Here come the first one: . By the way, Goocal is just a one way today’s event. Hopefully the author will continuously improve this cool plug-in to display monthly calendar and event synchronization.

E-Government means to manage large amount of distributed data in a country and all offices around the world. There are many areas to implement Grid in E-Government sector.

• Distributed database - Since there are so many private information of all populations, it would be better to store data of each people at the branch office where they belong to. By using this approach, the main office will not be overloaded by querying during high traffic condition.