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Sponsoring DrupalCon San Francisco 2010

DrupalCon San Francisco 2010 is just around the corner. DrupalCon is the most important event for the Drupal community around the world, bringing Drupal users, developers, designers and decision makers altogether. Until now there are almost 1300 confirmed attendees, but the organizers expect 2000; over 400 submitted sessions that you can vote for right now; 3 conference days, 2 code sprint days and a day of unconference, Drupal trainings and Core Developer Summit.

DrupalCon San Francisco is the premier conference for learning about all things Drupal. Come and learn how the leading open source CMS is changing the way we build and interact on the web. DrupalCon SF conference

As an Acquia Drupal Platinum Partner, Propeople is committed to support the Drupal community, therefore becoming a Silver sponsor for DrupalCon SF 2010.

"As the leading Drupal development company in Denmark and an Acquia Drupal Platinum Partner, the only one in North Europe and one of the seven worldwide, Propeople has the responsibility to be a part of the Drupal community and to support it. Sponsoring for DrupalCon SF 2010 is a great privilege to support the Drupal community." says Michael Drejer, Propeople CEO.

Propeople will actively participate at the event with six leading representatives: CEO Michael Drejer, Creative Director Michel Samucha, Production Manager Welin Welchev, Technical Manager Jens Beltofte Sørensen, Manager PHP Department Rumen Yordanov, and Marketing Manager Mihai Moscovici. Furthermore, Propeople is preparing mind-blowing surprises for DrupalCon SF attendees throughout the event.

See you soon at DrupalConSF 2010!

P.S. Vote for Propeople sessions for DrupalCon San Francisco 2010.

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Propeople is a Microsoft BizSpark Network Partner

Propeople is now a Microsoft BizSpark Network Partner, a global program designed to accelerate the success of early stage startups. As a BizSpark Network Partner, Propeople can identify startup companies and individuals in the Scandinavian market and provide them with guidance on their future prospects, technological know-how and validate their eligibility for the BizSpark program.

The program itself provides incredible value and the necessary tools to build highly innovative solutions using the latest Microsoft technologies. It provides entrepreneurs fast and easy access to current full-featured Microsoft development tools and productions licenses of server products, with no upfront costs and minimal requirements.

BizSpark links your startup to a wide range of incubators, investors, advisors, government agencies and hosters around the world that are equally involved and vested in software-fueled innovation and entrepreneurship who will provide a wide range of support resources. Microsoft BizSpark offers the opportunity to become a part of a rich, vibrant ecosystem of peers, partners and support resources around the globe, helping you grow and succeed. It's all you need to fire up your startup.

Within the BizSpark Network Partner program, Propeople is an entrepreneurial expert who know all about the unique challenges that young businesses face. We specialize in promoting and supporting startups like yours through mentoring, networking, consulting, and so much more.

Enroll your software startup in the Microsoft BizSpark Program. Simply indicate Propeople as your BizSpark Network Partner at http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark and complete your enrollment form. Once the simple enrollment process is complete, you will receive a welcome e-mail that includes a unique subscription ID that can be used to activate the software download benefits and all the information to establish your connection with Propeople, as your BizSpark Network Partner.

Contact Propeople today to find out more about the invaluable BizSpark experience and all the great benefits we have for your startup.

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Propeople 2009 retrospective

Amazing! This is the word to describe Propeople in 2009. It has been a tremendous year. In just a year Propeople (1) expanded by establishing a new office in Moldova, (2) gained the higher status by becoming an Acquia Drupal Platinum Partner and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, (3) supported and actively participated at the most important events in the Drupal and Microsoft communities, (4) as well as developed unique and outstanding projects for distinguished clients.

It’s hard to explain all this great stuff in just few words, so we made a 2009 timeline of the major events at Propeople. Take a closer look, as you may find yourself in there too.

February
First trip to Moldova to establish the Propeople office in Chisinau, Moldova.
Michael Drejer, Welin Welchev and Michel Samucha came to Moldova for headhunting. In just three days they met most of the leading Moldovan web designers and web developers. One month later, Propeople had its first five designers and developers starting the work in Moldova.

March
Propeople become an official Acquia Drupal Platinum Partner, the company that provides products, services, and technical support for Drupal.
This partnership strengthens Propeople leadership position in cutting-edge trends and technologies, and forges Propeople as the leading Drupal company in Scandinavia, being the only Acquia Drupal Platinum Partner in the region (along with other 5 worldwide).

Michael Drejer, Welin Welchev, Jens Beltofte Sørensen, Denis Chakarov and Svilen Sabev attended DrupalCon in Washington DC.

Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP) Award recipients from Propeople, Martin Kulov (VSTS MVP) and Coskun Sunali (ASP.NET MVP) have attended the MVP Global Summit, one of the largest multiday Microsoft MVP events. At the MVP Global Summit, MVPs receive access to exclusive technical content, participate in direct feedback sessions, and meet with Microsoft executives, product teams, and their peers from around the world. Microsoft executives and employees welcome MVPs to the Global Summit at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington and in Seattle.

April
Propeople got really serious about blogging and social media. Check out Propeople blog... (ah, you're actually reading it :) and follow Propeople on Twitter.

May
Propeople had the privilege to proudly support the Danish Drupal community by becoming a DrupalCamp Copenhagen 2.0 Platinum Sponsor.
"As the leading Drupal development company in Denmark and an Acquia Platinum partner, Propeople has the responsibility to be a part of the Drupal community and to support it. Sponsoring DrupalCamp Copenhagen 2.0 is a great privilege to support the Drupal community both in Denmark and around the world." said Michael Koefoed Steensborg Drejer.

June
Propeople Moldova is oficially registered and opens a fully functional office in Chisinau, Moldova. We're always glad to see you in Moldova.

July
Propeople representative, Martin Kulov, in the jury for Imagine Cup 2009.

Imagine Cup 2009, held in Cairo on July 02-08, is the world’s largest students contest on Microsoft technologies. Martin Kulov was invited to be part of the jury along with other very important and respected Microsoft professionals.

August
Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and Small Business Specialist
Propeople is officially a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. The MS Gold Certified Partner status represents the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies, and the closest working relationship with Microsoft. Propeople was also assigned the special competency as a Small Business Specialist through proven competency in marketing, selling, planning, and building solutions for small businesses.

September
Live blogging from DrupalCon Paris
As an Acquia Drupal Platinum Partner, Propeople has actively participated at DrupalCon Paris and has provided live coverage from the conference on Propeople blog. Check out our live coverage on the DrupalCon Paris tag.

November
ProPeople is now a Microsoft BizSpark Network Partner
Being a BizSpark Network Partner, Propeople can now identify startup companies and individuals in the Scandinavian market and provide them with guidance on their future prospects, technological know-how and validate their eligibility for the BizSpark program. The program itself provides incredible value and the necessary tools to build highly innovative solutions using the latest Microsoft technologies.

December
One of the greatest news for the New Year is that DrupalCon is coming to Copenhagen in August 2010. Propeople will do all the best to make DrupalCon Copenhagen an awesome and unforgettable event for the global Drupal community.

We would like to say a big THANK YOU to all our friends and supporters for being with us in 2009. For the new 2010, we promise to exceed all your highest expectations through full commitment, genuine passion and hard work.

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Propeople is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a Small Business Specialist

Propeople is officially a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, acknowledged as the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies, and the closest working relationship with Microsoft.

The Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status gives Propeople has the full access to exclusive online content provided by Microsoft and strengthens us to offer multiple benefits to our clients. Our clients will have the advantage to enjoy more resources and improved support, customized technical service coordination, and access to the partner knowledge base, as well as to be the first to find out the latest news, promotions, and updates delivered by Microsoft.

Propeople was also assigned the special competency as a Small Business Specialist through proven competency in marketing, selling, planning, and building solutions for small businesses.

We are fully committed to provide online solutions and support for small businesses; to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty through quickly addressing customers’ technical questions within few hours on a variety of Microsoft products, issues, and questions.

The Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and  Small Business Specialist status confirms Propeople as one of the best companies in the world providing Microsoft technologies.

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Supporting the Drupal community

DrupalCamp Copenhagen 2.0 is coming in town. Propeople has the privilege to proudly support the Danish Drupal community by becoming a DrupalCamp Copenhagen 2.0 Platinum Sponsor. The event is organized by the Danish Drupal Association and is now at its second edition (2.0). The first edition was organized in November 2008 and since back then Propeople has taken an pro-active role in contributing for the event.

Michael Koefoed Steensborg Drejer, Propeople CEO, believes the community is the core of Drupal's success. "As the leading Drupal development company in Denmark and an Acquia Platinum partner, Propeople has the responsibility to be a part of the Drupal community and to support it. Sponsoring DrupalCamp Copenhagen 2.0 is a great privilege to support the Drupal community both in Denmark and around the world." says Michael Koefoed Steensborg Drejer.

DrupalCamp Copenhagen 2.0 focuses to consolidate the Danish Drupal community, that is to bring Drupal developers together to discuss Drupal related topics to find efficient solutions. The event also aims to present Drupal to the Danish web-developer who are not yet famillyar with Drupal. There is a growing demand in qualified Drupal developers in Denmark, so web-developers can find new opportunities by addopting Drupal.

Looking beyond locally, another purpose of the DrupalCamp Copenhagen 2.0 is to come up with a list of suggestions for the theming layer in Drupal. This already has been started at DrupalCon DC and a special theming group is already working on this issue. There will be several sessions at the DrupalCamp Copenhagen 2.0 ending with a panel discussion that should summize the Camp 's suggestions for a better theming layer in Drupal.

DrupalCamp Copenhagen 2.0 features such great speakers as Addison Berry, Todd Ross Nienkerk, Morten Birch Heide-Jørgensen and many others. This DrupalCamp is the place to meet great people and directly contribute to the development of Drupal.

Propeople will be live-blogging from DrupalCamp Copenhagen 2.0. Don't miss the DrupalCamp Copenhagen 2.0 live on Propeople blog on May 22-24, 2009.

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Ultimate solution for IE6

Released in August 2001, IE6 is definitely one of the most widely used web browser peaking over 80% share during 2002 and 2003. The good news is that users tend to less use IE6 when surfing the web. According to w3counter.com Global Web Stats, IE6 is losing popularity over the last two years. Back in May 2007 Internet Explorer 6.0 ranked the first among browsers with a huge margin of 50.22%, and in May 2008 for about 36.85%. The last available data, February 2009, indicate that IE6 is used by 25.95% users, being the second most used browser after IE 7 (31.61%).

gtalbot.org reports on 119 bugs in IE6 for Windows. In addition, IE6 bugs became so notorious they even got generic names such as the double float margin bug, peekaboo bug, guillotine bug, phantom box bug and so many others. These CSS bugs are all found only in Internet Explorer.

In May 2006, PC World magazine rated Internet Explorer 6 the eighth worst tech product of all time. Unlike other browsers, IE6 does not support many important CSS2 features such as child selector, adjacent sibling, attribute selector, max/min width and max/min height rules. This means web developers must use workarounds so the web page will look properly in IE6. Some web developers estimate they spend extra 20% of their work time just to fix IE6 bugs.

As a web development company, Propeople develops, optimizes and provides support for IE6 in compliance to all web standards. However, we are in the same situation as the rest of the web development community, struggling to find an ultimate solution about IE6. From one side it is extremely painful to provide support for a technically outdated product, yet it is impossible to ignore a quarter of users thus clients demand their web products to be equally available in IE6 too. Many web developers stopped developing products for IE6 and call the rest to do the same, some other charge double for the time spent fixing IE6 bugs.

Another solution would be to make users to change their browsers. Adobe FlashPlayer experience may serve as a good example: when a flash site detects an older version of the Flash Player installed on your machine, the system will prompt you to download and install the latest version; otherwise you cannot access the site. It’s a win-win situation: the user gets the best product and developers can focus on important issues, other than fixing senseless bugs.

Microsoft, the company that released IE6, is already providing two newer versions of the Internet Explorer browsers and is making the effort to persuade users to upgrade to a newer and better version. It is even curious to see Microsoft getting along with several large Norwegian websites that launched an advocacy campaign urging IE6 users to upgrade their outdated web browsers.

Despite all the effort, the struggle around IE6 is not over and is likely to be a serious concern for the next years. Yet, the question is whether the web community must take severe actions such as to stop supporting IE6 or to let it go until IE6 will become history. What do you think?

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Denis Chakarov is Front-End (HTML/CSS) manager at Propeople since 2006.
Denis has 5 years of professional experience in web industry mostly design and front-end fields, including html, css and javascript techniques, cross-browser compatibility, server side programming such as php and mysql, as well as Drupal and Drupal theming. Feel free to contact Denis info (at) propeople . dk write "Denis" in the subject.

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