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Squeak Weekly: Etoys 4 released

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:46:35 -0600

Following his announcement of the release candidate last month, Timothy Falconer of Squeakland has now announced the full release of Etoys 4, which you can now download from their website.

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.

Squeak Weekly: Smalltalk Party in Paris

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:25:58 -0600

Noury Bouraqadi wrote to the squeak-dev mailing list with news that French Smalltalk users are holding their eighth annual SmalltalkParty in Paris on Saturday 28th November 2009.

The empahsis is on short presentations, so there promises to be plenty of interesting presentations. Items already planned for discussion include:

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

Development Feed: Links - PHP Content Management Systems

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:47:14 -0600

Oct 14 2009: What's going on ! Yet another good small CMS emerges from the pack. Added phpSQLiteCMS.
Oct 10 2009: added Zikula CMS framework.
Oct 9 2009: added XMLNuke, XML CMS framework.
Oct 4 2009: discovered gpEasy CMS.

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.

Home Feed: Links - Business Rules Management

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:18:42 -0600

Oct 8 2009: I've neglected the subject but there seems to be growing interest in business rules management.

James Taylor wrote an short article about business rule management ( BRM ) a few days ago, Business Rules Management – the misunderstood partner to process.

Squeak Weekly: SqueakDBX news

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:04:59 -0600

The SqueakDBX team have been very busy recently working on their OpenDBX plugin which allows Squeak users to perform relational database operations (including DDL and DML as well as SQL) through an open source library.

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.

Home Feed: Links - Software Patents

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:17:52 -0600

Oct 5 2009: Red Hat Asks Supreme Court To Nix Software Patents. The range of comments is also interesting.