For the second year running, Drupal placed in the Webware 100 awards in the Publishing & Photography category. In this publishing category, the only other contender in the top 10 that comes close to matching the flexibility and functionality of Drupal was WordPress, which would probably do well to continue to focus on the blog … Read more
Thanks to the University of London, I was able to try out a few open source portfolio systems, including Elgg, Mahara and Moodle. I’ll admit I have a lot more experience with Open Source Portfolio than any of these projects, but nevertheless, I was expecting to be blown away by their superiority. Surprisingly, I ended … Read more
Just noting that I updated my Drupal 6 test site to 6.1 following the security release. The update was painless. Thanks to Drupal 6’s new update functionality, the site itself checks to see if any updates to core or modules are necessary and let’s you know. And if you think it’s problematic that 6.0 already … Read more
Kudos to walkah et al for their work on the Drupal OpenID module and getting OpenID into core for Drupal 6! By default, OpenID in Drupal 5 and 6 defaults to present regular Drupal authentication first, giving the user the option to toggle to authenticate via OpenID. That’s the exact opposite of what I wanted … Read more
Twitterfeed The Pulse of Open Source just launched thanks to the hard work of ravenzachary and witigonen. Tune in now to take the pulse of open source…While I’m honored to be a part of the feed, it seems like there are a lot of open source luminaries more luminescent than I, so let’s get the … Read more
With today’s release of Drupal 6.0, I’ve upgraded my test site from RC4, which was again as easy as pie. You can read my earlier post on what’s exciting in Drupal 6. Stay tuned for more on Drupal 6, and oh, in case you haven’t heard, go to DrupalCon 2008 in Boston!