In an Internet landscape full of “what I ate for breakfast” posts, here’s my semi-regular dose of transparency and accountability to the Joomla community as to my activities as Open Source Matters (OSM) President.
Drupal vs. Joomla – Fight!
Ohloh.com is an interesting little website that has spurred some chatter on the Drupal dev mailing list. It claims to "map the open source world" by "collecting objective information on open source projects." It analyzes the codebase and contributions for a project and spits out some interesting data. A particularly charming feature is that it [...]
Drupal for Nonprofits, or, How to Build Social Networks for Change
Earlier this month, NetSquared was generous enough to fund my attendance at the Lullabot Drupal Intensive workshop in Providence, Rhode Island. Drupal is a free, open-source content management system that allows non-technical users to update your site and is capable of powering blogs, community sites, action-oriented campaigns and social networks along the lines of MySpace [...]
PHPDay 2009
Credo che tutti ormai lo sappiano già ma quest’anno a Verona si svolgerà il PHPDay 2009 e non potevamo mancare. All’evento Mavimo ed Ingo terranno un talk su Drupal come framework di sviluppo ma oltre a loro ci sarò anch’io e quindi spero di incontrarvi numerosi.
Rilasciato Drupal 6.11 & 5.17
Ralasciate nuove release corrette per i rami 5 e 6. Le versioni nuove non introducono nuove features ma risolvono alcuni problemi di sicurezza. I link ai dowloads sono disponibili nel blocco a destra mentre le istruzioni su come aggiornare la versione del vostro drupal la trovate QUI
DrupalCon Paris: Early Bird registration now open
Almost 3 months have passed since Bonnie and her team performed the ultimate party trick: materializing a 1400 people conference out of thin air. In the meantime many of you have been organizing camps, launching client projects, training new developers, contributing new modules and crafting beautiful designs. You have been extending core, writing tests, attacking [...]
Next steps for Drupal 7 usability
Improving the usability of Drupal is very important. Yesterday, I wrote about the progress that was made on Drupal 7 usability — the community has made a ton of incremental improvements, while Mark and Leisa have been preparing mockups and wireframes that provide significant over-arching improvements to Drupal’s ease of use. Combined, I believe these [...]
The New York State Senate
After winning control of the New York State Senate for the first time in almost 50 years, the Democratic party turned to Advomatic to quickly deploy a new website powered by Drupal. There were many challenges to be overcome, and their requirements pushed the envelope in some areas such as permissions and work flow. In [...]
Drupal 6.12 and 5.18 released
Download Drupal 6.12 Download Drupal 5.18 Drupal 6.12 and 5.18, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as a critical security vulnerability, are now available for download. Both releases fix some other smaller issues as well. Upgrading your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no [...]
Drupal is a Webware 100 winner for the third year in a row
Drupal is a Webware 100 winner for the third year in a row. This year Drupal was in the Social & Publishing category with well known services including MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and WordPress.com. Drupal was one of 10 winners in the category. From CNET The 2009 Webware 100 Awards recognize the best Web 2.0 sites, [...]
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