There has been a lot of hand waving about the semantic web, RDF, and Drupal. This is good, and it is important for there to be excitement about the possibilities that this opens to us. Now the first concrete plans are being laid and the first patches are being written and evaluated.
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It's nice to see hard work, persistence, team effort, and collaboration pay off. This year three Packt Publishing awards went to Drupal. First, Earl Miles (merlinofchaos, father of Views) was honored as Most Valued Person for the Drupal project, a title he sure has earned.
On December 12, 2008, I'll be in New Orleans to talk about the exciting world of Drupal Search. In a first-of-its-kind event, the Lullabots have organized a "large-scale, 3-day learning event" that will bring together some of Drupal's most sought after speakers, as well as a number of other prominent internet personalities and luminaries. I'm looking forward to meeting some of the speakers who aren't necessarily known as Drupal rockstars (meaning they did something else to get famous):
Drupal people: get some coffee, take a seat, log out of IRC, and take 16 minutes to watch this video. Wordpress is leading the way in terms of posting and administering content, and we'd better be taking notes. The bits that I'm particularly jonesing over are the drag and drop widgets, the content administration dashboard, and the instant installation of plugins and themes.
My favorite quote from the video:
I think that people ... downloading things to their computer and uploading them to a server is completely worthless. You're a fake bottleneck.
Drupalcon Szeged was a huge success. This shot gives a feel for the room during Dries’ keynote.
I’ve been having fun making panorama shots lately. I use a program called Calico to stitch several photos together. Check out the full size version for more detail.
Drupal has been attracting some really great writers recently, and I have a couple of serious Drupal crushes going at the moment. The first is the blog of Shelley Powers, author of a whole stack of tech books published by O’Reilly. Shelley wrote the first book I ever bought on RDF and has thoroughly documented her initial Drupal experiences.
Great job, Dmitri!
Working with Drupal and other open source projects has introduced me to some really brilliant and wonderful people. That's the part of contributing that has been the most worthwhile.
Fun and value can be found in aggregation. Using the Feed API, Emfield, and Feed element mapper, it becomes easy to create awesome video aggregators that pull in topic specific videos from multiple video sharing services.
The Wordpress 2.6 Beta 1 is now available. Hats off to the Wordpress team. Here are some features that we should have in Drupal, too:
This very useful Drupal site is also a good place to go if you are a Drupal freelancer looking for work or a Drupal contractor looking to hire. It isn’t limited to Drupal, but there are lots of listings for Drupal jobs and Drupal service providers.
