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Drupal Community: Drupal 7 code freeze: status update and next steps

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:35:28 -0600

It was a close race to the finish -- or rather the beginning -- of the Drupal 7 code freeze process a couple of weeks ago. Now that we're in the middle of the code freeze, I wanted to update everyone on the current status of the freeze, and provide some guidance about where we go from here.

Drupal Community: Do It With Drupal 2009

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:08:40 -0600

Lullabot is pleased to announce the second annual Do It With Drupal Seminar. This 3-day event is focused on the configuration, architecture, and processes behind building successful Drupal websites and communities.

Drupal Community: GoTwitr - Twitter Automation Site Built with Drupal

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:54:12 -0600

Whether it's for pleasure or business, or both, Twitter automation is a must for anyone who wants to use Twitter effectively. GoTwitr is a new site whose primary goal is to make it easy for people to grow and manage their Twitter communities.

Drupal Community: New Book! Drupal 6 Search Engine Optimization

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:20:04 -0600

Drupal 6 Search Engine Optimization is a new Drupal book authored by Ben Finklea and published by Packt Publishing.

Drupal Community: Support Drupal by Voting in Packt Publishing's Open Source CMS Award Competition

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:16:38 -0600

Packt Publishing, the company behind many well-known Drupal books, holds an annual Open Source CMS Award that recognizes open source content management platforms and their communities. In addition to bragging rights, winners also receive financial support for their projects in the form of cash prizes.

Drupal Community: Trócaire: Working for a Just World

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:53:02 -0600

Drupal Community: Install Profiles Packing on Drupal.org - Funding obtained, feedback welcome

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:03:51 -0600

Since the 5.0 release, Drupal core has included an installer that supports installation profiles to setup and configure a site for a certain use-case. In theory this allows for people to create a better "out of the box" solution by configuring Drupal like a wiki, a conference, or a publishing site.

Drupal Community: TckTckTck

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:21:47 -0600

Drupal Community: Cracking Drupal - Drupal Security book, talks, and review service

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:02:10 -0600

It's nearly 6 months since the release of Cracking Drupal, which makes for a nice milestone to talk about the book and mention a few related developments.

Drupal Community: Case Study: Saint Louis Review News Website

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:47:57 -0600

The Saint Louis Review is a local Catholic diocesan newspaper serving the nearly 500,000 member Archdiocese of Saint Louis. The newspaper has had a website since the late 90s, which was ported to a custom-designed CMS in 2001. The PHP/MySQL-based site ran quite well throughout the first decade of this millennium, but was in need of either a serious overhaul or a redesign, to go along with the paper's new tabloid layout in April 2009.

Drupal Community: Groups.Drupal.org Upgrade to Drupal 6.x - State of the Site

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:45:17 -0600

There's lots of exciting news about Groups.Drupal.org which was launched over three years ago as a

a glorious hub of worldwide drupal user groups.

Three years since and there are almost 650 groups on the site and over 51,000 subscriptions to those groups with over 700,000 page views each month. A glorious hub indeed.

Drupal Community: HeadlinerCreative : A Case Study

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:50:59 -0600

Web designers have taken to blogging platforms as a foundation for their portfolio websites. It has always bothered me since, as a web designer, I believe in user-centered design. Blogging systems are not ideal for showcasing a portfolio, as it’s coming at the project from the perspective of “what’s easy to build and how can we fit what we want into it?”

Drupal Community: Drupal powered NowPublic.com acquired by the Clarity Digital Group

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:21:41 -0600

As you may have seen in the news, NowPublic.com, the first venture backed start-up to use Drupal, was acquired by the Clarity Digital Group which owns and operates Examiner.com a quantified top 100 web property

Drupal Community: New Drupal Book: Drupal 6 Site Blueprints

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:30:20 -0600

Packt Publishing is pleased to announce the release of a new Drupal book called Drupal 6 Site Blueprints authored by Timi Ogunjobi.

Drupal Community: Drupal 6.14 and 5.20 released

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:45:03 -0600

Download Drupal 6.14