DrupalCon SF Session Submissions Open
January 22nd, 2010
The San Francisco DrupalCon organizing committee is happy to announce that session submissions are open! Come see the sessions that have already been proposed, and if you can’t find exactly what you’re looking for, suggest your own. Drupal’s community is what sets it apart from the pack, so come be a part of the magic!…
SharkScopers
January 21st, 2010
SharkScopers is a Drupal 6 site that allows online poker instructors to sell screencast tutorial videos. The first two minutes can be viewed by anyone. Users can purchase credits that unlock whole videos. Instructors then receive a cut of the profit. Jonathan Brown from Blue Droplet Media in Edinburgh, Scotland, has been helping Mike Jonas…
Autism therapy site with autotagging and GeoIP-enabled directory
January 18th, 2010
Healing Thresholds Autism Therapy provides comprehensive therapy fact sheets, daily updates of research and news, and a global directory of autism therapists. The site has become a standard and definitive source for autism treatment information. In particular, the site provides layperson-accessible summaries of essentially all child-focused research from the last 3 years, in addition to…
Drupal 7.0 Alpha 1 released
January 15th, 2010
Update: Drupal 7.0 Alpha 2 is available now! After nearly two years of development, we are proud to announce the release of the first alpha version of the Drupal 7.x family. This alpha includes a tremendous number of new features and new under-the-hood improvements for both users and developers. We revamped Drupal’s user interface, added…
The TurnKey Linux Virtual Appliance Library – Powered by Drupal
January 14th, 2010
The TurnKey Linux Virtual Appliance Library is an open source project developing a free virtual appliance library that pre-integrates the very best server-oriented open source software. TurnKey Linux appliances are simple, ready-to-use servers that are designed to "just work" and can be deployed in minutes on a virtual machine, bare metal or in the cloud. The…
Scheduled drupal.org downtime Tuesday 2010-01-12 5PM-6PM PST
January 12th, 2010
On Tuesday 2010-01-12 from 5:00PM to 6:00PM Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8), drupal.org will be down for scheduled maintenance. We will be rebooting our main file server for security updates and preparing to transition to a highly-available file server. This reboot should not take the entire window, but is more likely to take around 30 minutes….
New Book: Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours
January 11th, 2010
Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours helps you get up to speed with Drupal quickly. Whether you’re starting from scratch or working to fill in some gaps in your Drupal knowledge, you’ll find descriptions, examples, and Try It Yourself numbered steps to walk you through working with Drupal. This book introduces you to Drupal…
“Drupal: Creating and Editing Custom Themes” training video series from Lynda.com
January 7th, 2010
New training to help you learn how to build Drupal themes is available online from Lynda.com. Drupal: Creating and Editing Custom Themes shows how a Drupal theme can alter the look and feel of a web site. Drupal evangelist and author Chris Charlton introduces the core themes that ship with Drupal, how to install and…
Scheduled drupal.org downtime Thursday 2010-01-07 6PM-7PM PST
January 5th, 2010
On Thursday 2010-01-07 from 6:00PM to 7:00PM Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8), drupal.org will be down for scheduled maintenance. We will be deploying updates to our automated unit testing architecture and expect everything to go smoothly. It is unlikely we will actually be down for the extent of our window, more likely we will be down…
New Drupal Book: Drupal for Dummies
January 4th, 2010
My new book, Drupal for Dummies, is now available. My intended audience is non-technical, so if you’ve got a friend who wants you to build a Drupal site for them, this might be worth mentioning to them. The companion Web site, http://drupalfordummies.com was created using only the information presented in the book. You can find…