I just installed my first Drupal 6.0 version (RC4), which took a total of about 3.5 minutes. You [used to be able to] visit the resulting (minimalist) site. The new installer worked flawlessly, requiring only establishing a database and user and changing the the access control on a single directory and changing it back again … Read more
O how I want to Flock in the morning. O how I want to Flock in the eve. But I can’t because Flock can’t authenticate me to my OpenID, Drupal blog. Flockstars take notice: OpenID critical mass is growing. Take a look at OpenID support in these flocky sites and at least let us know … Read more
Several key Drupal community members have gathered together with some others to form Acquia, a new commercial firm that hopes to sell subscriptions to Drupal a la RedHat’s linux distros. Acquia has already generated $7 million in funding. I notice the similarities between Acquia and rSmart, where I now work. Both are focused on the … Read more
Let’s heed the call for an open source census with the open source discovery tool. We’ve long been maintaining that open source technologies are in wide—and often unrecognized—use in many organizations. Now we have an initiative and a tool to help demonstrate that claim with real numbers. I’ve submitted requests for the OSS Discovery tool … Read more
The hype and opprobrium on Amazon’s Kindle is out. The verdict is in: usability AND content are king. Depending on who you read, the Kindle succeeds or fails on one or both counts. As I type this out on my iPhone, I have to say: the Kindle must win on both usability and content to … Read more
The funniest monkey and driving force behind DrupalEd, Bill Fitzgerald, just posted about a new feed aggregation demo via Drupal:http://groups.drupal.org/node/7271 Bill’s post got me thinking about a problem I’ve been ruminating on from a related arena: the world of academic eportfolios. The issue: How to enable a high degree of independence for individuals in the … Read more