Comparison between two content management systems - Wordpress MU and Drupal

pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/apperceive/msandy/a posted a video:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/apperceive/3360130253/ title=working-in-the-rv-lakeview-camp-tennimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3543/3360130253_22d8d4645e_m.jpg width=240 height=135 alt=working-in-the-rv-lakeview-camp-tenn //a/p pAlicia and I are spending the day working on Drupal projects for clients in the RV. Reception with our Verizon WWAN device is faster than the local wi-fi (we are at the far corner of the park). Getting about 2Mb download and 500Kb+ up. ATT coverage is good too, so iPhones are working well. Getting a lot done today./p

pimg width=200 height=280 align=right alt= src=http://bside-images.s3.amazonaws.com/films/rip/rip_home.jpg /Last night, the SXSW film festival was rocked by the US premiere of Brett Gaylor's a href=http://www.ripremix.com/RiP: a Remix Manifesto/a. nbsp;Advance tickets were sold out in no time and everyone in attendance was treated to great show. nbsp;Gaylor has produced an excellent documentary that everyone - even if you don't agree - should watch and really consider what happening in the world of copyright law. nbsp;/p pMore than any film that's come before it, RiP explains in clear terms what's at stake in the fight over copyright. The documentary personalizes the issue by following one of Gaylor's favorite musicians, the mash-up artist Girl Talk, and examines the costs musicians like him to face to distribute his music. Featuring interviews from outspoken critics of the american copyright system a href=http://lessig.orgLawrence Lessig/a and a href=http://craphound.com/bio.phpCory Doctorow/a, Gaylor vividly illustrates the constraints existing legislation puts on creativity and issues a call-to-arms in the fight over copyright./ppa href=http://raincitystudios.com/blogs-and-pods/jeff-traynor/us-premiere-rip-a-remix-manifesto-sxsw-2009read more/a/p

— Mar. 09, 2009 — [Updated 6PM] -- Israeli software appliance project TurnKey Linux announced a dozen new open-source server appliances based on Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS (Long-Term-Support).

pDrupal's core contact module allows users of a site to contact one another via email. Unfortunately, it also reveals the sender's email address. Normally, this is seen as fine behavior because the only person's email address that is at stake is the one taking the action. However, for a recent site, this violated the site's stated a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COPPACOPPA/a compliance, so we needed to alter the strongFrom/strong and strongReply-To/strong headers sent with the email. As it turns out, this is quite an easy thing to do thanks to a href=http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_mail_alter/6hook_mail_alter()/a./ppa href=http://www.opensourcery.com/blog/jonathan-hedstrom/allow-users-contact-each-other-without-revealing-private-email-addressesread more/a/p

pa href=http://openspring.net/scor/a did the hard work on putting together a presentation on RDFa for the a href=http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/node/51keynote/a at a href=http://dc2009.drupalcon.orgDCDC/a. Just like last year, I did the legwork on the screencast while smarter, more productive people did the hard parts. It would seem that I am the voice of RDF in Drupal./p pBut alas, due to timeframe it was not to be. Fortunately, a href=http://bmannconsulting.com/Boris/a played a version during his a href=http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/practical-semantic-web-and-why-you-should-careRDFa presentation at Drupalcon DC 2009,/a and scor ran two BoFs which I couldn't really participate in, having to give Openband's presentation on Thursday and being cut down by food poisoning on Friday./p pNow scor did a a href=http://groups.drupal.org/node/20167writeup on the semweb group/a, and a href=http://buytaert.net/rdfa-and-drupalDries noted it on his blog./a I won't belabor the point when others have already worded it better by reiterating it all here, but the more exposure RDFa gets, the better! More credits for the work are in both of those links. You can view the video in the above posts flashy style, and I've also put up the higher-res original a href=http://bhuga.net/files/dcdc09 final.movhere./a/p

pLast year, I wrote a blog post title a href=http://buytaert.net/drupal-the-semantic-web-and-searchDrupal, the semantic web and search/a that outlined how search engines like Google and Yahoo! are getting increasingly hungry for emstructured data/em. It is no surprise, because if they could built a global, vertical search engine that, say, searches all products online, or one that searches all job applications online, they could disintermediate many existing companies./p pMore exciting to me is how search engines can help bootstrap the semantic web as they build out these vertical search engines, and the role that content management systems like a href=http://drupal.orgDrupal/a get to play in this. Hundreds of thousands of Drupal sites contain vast amounts of structured data, covering an enormous range of topics. Unfortunately, that structure is hidden deep in Drupal's database and doesn't surface to the HTML code generated by Drupal./ppa href=http://buytaert.net/rdfa-and-drupalread more/a/p

po.k. it's not just for Drupal 6, but it makes the title sound so much better :)/p

table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7trtd valign=top class=jfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifbrdiv style=padding-top:0.8em;img alt= height=1 width=1/divdiv class=lha href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/0-0fd=Rurl=http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/new-book-drupal-6-social-networking-packt-004117.phpcid=0ei=0cC_SZ_kMqWSkQSpirD6CQusg=AFQjCNE3F5R89OVolDPpBBCOCx3w9xk9uQNew Book - bDrupal/b 6 Social Networking (packt)/abrfont size=-1font color=#6f6f6fCMSWire,nbsp;CA/font/fontbrfont size=-1By Dee-Ann LeBlanc | Mar 16, 2009 Long known as an open source web content management system, bDrupal/b (news, site) has also recently been referring to their solution as social publishing software. Most web content management systems have some sort of b.../b/font/div/font/td/tr/table

pThe past week was quite interesting and generated a fair amount of traffic and news about CiviCRM. It compelled me to summarize and link to the various blog posts :)/ppa href=http://civicrm.org/node/526read more/a/p

pThe past week was quite interesting and generated a fair amount of traffic and news about CiviCRM. It compelled me to summarize and link to the various blog posts :)/ppa href=http://civicrm.org/node/526read more/a/p

Dispelling some of the myths of SEO in a Drupal environment. Chill out and worry about other aspects of your site design!

ppThe a href=http://drupal.org/project/gmapGMap module/a is a highly useful tool for enabling Google Maps on Drupal nodes, and its integration with Location has made it the de-facto choice for this functionality on most Drupal sites. On a recent project, I was looking for a quick way to allow a user to attach span class=capsKML/span files to a Gmap-enabled node through a span class=capsCCK/span field and have them integrated into the resulting map./ppa href=http://www.agileapproach.com/blog-entry/kml-overlays-gmap-enabled-nodes target=_blankread more/a/p

div class='snap_preview'pDas Problem ist in der Überschrift beschrieben: Drupal scheint mir auf den ersten Blick im Core keine Möglichkeit zu bieten die Reihenfolge von Einträgen (Pages / Stories) festzulegen. Erste Recherchen ergaben, dass dies mit Views funktionieren soll. Ran an die Arbeit:/p h1Wie geht das mit diesen Views?/h1 pSo! Views. Noch nie gehört. Erster Blick: Mist - komplex! Darauffolgender Gedanke: Hilft nix!/p pAusgangssituation von hier an ist das fertig installierte Views-Modul in Drupal. Dieser Artikel wurde im März 2009 verfasst, somit ist Views 2 aktuell./p h2Neuen View anlegen/h2 pOk, kein Problem. Views-#62;Add und ausfüllen. Hier sieht man beim Auswählen eines View-Typs bereits, dass man festlegen kann welche Art von Information man ordnen möchte. Behalte ich solange mal im Hinterkopf./p h2Display-Typ auswählen/h2 pGut! Jetzt gibt es einen neuen Begriff: Display. Page, Block, Feed und Attachment kann ich dafür auswählen. Kommt mir so vor als würde ich hier festlegen, in welcher Form man die Information anzeigen möchte, die man als View-Typ festgelegt hat. Kann man also z.B. Nodes dann als Pages, Blocks, Feeds oder Attachments anzeigen und jeweils eine eigene Ordnung festlegen./p pNicht so voreilig. Abwarten und vorsichtshalber hier mal Page auswählen. #8220;Add Display#8221; klicken./ppa href=http://invidea.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/drupal-views-reihenfolge-der-eintrage-einstellbar/read more/a/p

table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7trtd valign=top class=jfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifbrdiv style=padding-top:0.8em;img alt= height=1 width=1/divdiv class=lha href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/5-0fd=Rurl=http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/03/16/a-nice-chat-with-adobe-about-dreamweaver/cid=1315945363ei=0cC_SZ_kMqWSkQSpirD6CQusg=AFQjCNFq0dedMUCuzodi-xvGNLlObSubkwA nice chat with Adobe about Dreamweaver/abrfont size=-1font color=#6f6f6fPC Pro,nbsp;UK/font/fontbrfont size=-1Without making any explicit commitments, Devin also made it clear that Dreamweaver users can expect further developments when it comes to integration with the big three frameworks:- WordPress, Joomla and bDrupal/b. In particular, knowing I’ma bDrupal/b fan, b.../b/fontbrfont size=-1a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/5-1fd=Rurl=http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/press-release%25C2%25A0%25C2%25A0jsftoolbox-30-adobe-dreamweaver-cs4-now-availablecid=1315945363ei=0cC_SZ_kMqWSkQSpirD6CQusg=AFQjCNFZ3yylGGGGvT1bvpFADYsIGKrPgQPress Release : JSFToolbox 3.0 for Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Now Available/a font size=-1 color=#6f6f6fnobrPressReleasePoint (press release)/nobr/font/fontpa href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tamp;ct=us/5-0amp;fd=Ramp;url=http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/03/16/a-nice-chat-with-adobe-about-dreamweaver/amp;cid=1315945363amp;ei=0cC_SZ_kMqWSkQSpirD6CQamp;usg=AFQjCNFq0dedMUCuzodi-xvGNLlObSubkwread more/a/p

pThe a href=http://drupal.org/project/flagFlag/a module is one of those modules that in its previous incarnation (as the a href=http://drupal.org/project/views_bookmarkViews Bookmarks module/a) was a bit inflexible and often (at least in my cases) required some manual tweaking of the code to get it to do exactly what I wanted (no offense to the original authors, I actually used it a surprising number of times). /p pThe updated and renamed module is a breath of fresh air - it is an ease to install and configure for any number of use cases - in this article, I'll demonstrate how you can set up a list of the best comments on your site./p pThe Flag module is extremely useful mainly due to its excellent integration with other Drupal modules - specifically a href=http://drupal.org/project/viewsViews/a and a href=http://drupal.org/node/172152Actions/a (part of Drupal 6 core). It's also chock-full of AJAX-y goodness (flagging items doesn't require a full page refresh) and a plethora of configuration options./p pa href=http://drupaleasy.com/blogs/ultimike/2009/03/capture-power-flag-module target=_blankread more/a/pimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/DrupalEasy/~4/hNhDCWlWX78 height=1 width=1/

OpenSourceCinema.org Selects Kaltura in Order to Allow Users to View, Upload, and Remix RiP Manifesto -- the First Legally Remixable Documentary About Copyright and Remix Culture

SXSW Conference -- EyeSteelFilm, the creators of RiP, a Remix Manifesto, a documentary about copyright and remix culture, announced today that it has partnered with Kaltura, Inc. (http://www.kaltura.com), developer of the first open source video platform and Raincity Studios, a web 2.0 community developer and web design company, to power full video capabilities on its new online community ...

There is an old business saying that “if you are not growing you are dying.” As Drupal’s popularity grows, so do the number of local user groups that are sprouting up throughout the world – obviously, this is a really good sign. These grassroots gatherings are critical to Drupal’s long term success. Drupal is an ecosystem built around its community. We need new ideas, contributors, users, etc. to help carry the torch of what others have started so brilliantly.pa href=http://www.mediacurrent.com/blogs/best-practices-and-tips-local-drupal-user-groupsread more/a/p

img src=http://teddy.fr/sites/teddy.fr/files/imagecache/teaser_thumbnail/runner.jpg alt=Coder Sprint, or how to have a healthy DrupalCon title=Coder Sprint, or how to have a healthy DrupalCon align=right /pOne thing I realized in DC is that I am not the only geek around concerned about my health; I am vegetarian, exercise every day, run 3 to 4 times a week and overall try to find balance in my life. I love working in the Web industry, however for me and almost everybody else I know working in the same field it means having to spend a huge amount of time sitting in front of a computer (and, for most of my friends, drinking a lot of beer too)./p pThe latest DrupalCon had its a href=http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/anointing-king-parties-drupalcon-dcKing of Parties/a in charge of making sure geeks would see some action along the week. Although I enjoy sharing a couple drinks from time to time with other Drupalers, I must say that I am no more the geek I used to be; I don't drink as often as before and when I do, I usually don't need much before hitting the bed. On the plus side, I get much more done in the morning while others are still sleeping they beer off./ppa href=http://teddy.fr/blog/coder-sprint-or-how-to-have-a-healthy-drupalconread more/a/p