DrupalCamp is coming back to NYC this summer. Registration opens on May 24 and the event will be held on Saturday, July 24th and Sunday, July 25th. DrupalCampNYC will be held at the NYU/Poly campus in Brooklyn – it’s just one subway stop from Manhattan.
If you would like to submit a session proposal, you can do so on May 24th. Here’s a list of the topics:
Site Building with Drupal
Design/User Interface/Theming
Programming and Module Development
Site Showcases
Drupal for Business
Drupal for Non-Profit
DrupalCampNYC costs $10 and includes admission for both days plus breakfast and lunch.
This is intended to be a monthly wrap-up, but my memory’s not good enough to go all the way back to the beginning of the month. Therefore, you just get the last few weeks. As a bonus, though, I threw in a few stories from May 1. :)
Our sister site, CenterNetworks, made the switch from Drupal to WordPress. While far from painless, the transition seems to have gone smoothly and the site is moving right along on the new platform.
It will be very interesting to see how this effects the marketing strategy for MySQL, being that MySQL and Oracle DB are direct competitors. With MySQL being open-source, it can’t actually go away, but the focus might change dramatically.
Although I am not an Ubuntu user, I do use Linux Mint (which is based on Ubuntu) as my primary OS at home. This release means that a new version of Mint is in the works and should be released fairly soon.
April 24, 2009
OpenSUSE 11.2 Milestone 1
The OpenSUSE community released the first milestone of OpenSUSE 11.2. Then, on May 1, they also released an update to OpenSUSE 11.1. I am seriously considering either replacing one of my other distros with the new version of SUSE or installing it as my Linux distro at work. Unfortunately, my attempts to test OpenSUSE 11.1 in VirtualBox have consistently failed miserably.
I have not yet tested the new version of Boxee, but the Linux update apparently fixes Hulu (for now, at least), introduces Pandora Radio and more. I will probably give it a try this weekend.
Mandriva 2009.1 came out the other day. I am still working on trying to successfully upgrade to this version, but from what I’ve seen, it looks really good. The new version comes with KDE 4.2 natively and includes quite a few other “enhancements.”
Microsoft will apparently let people use Windows 7 without paying for it for a little over a year. Unfortunately, though, they will stop letting you use it at that point if you don’t pay. I think a better model would be to allow beta testers to use Windows 7 perpetually for free, but then start selling it commercially to everyone else.
The premier site for showing off your higher education Web site and soliciting public opinion on your design opened voting on the second annual eduStyle awards.
Drupal founder Dries Buytaert is out with his yearly Drupal download stats. Overall, Drupal has been downloaded 1.4 million times with Drupal 5 leading the pack. New version 6.0 is picking up the pace with more and more downloads each month.
These numbers only include downloaded from Drupal’s Web site. Other download options aren’t included in the chart below.
On our sister site CenterNetworks, we use the open source content management system (CMS) Drupal. I’ve used nearly every CMS package, both free and the systems costing large sums of money and Drupal is my favorite.
On CN we get hammered with spam every day. So much spam that I had to turn off comments after three months because every post (some 2000+) gets hit.
One thing I’ve noticed is that within moments of posting some new content, spams begin to come in. Not minutes, hours or days, but moments. And after doing some research into our system and into the way Drupal handles content, I’ve realized why this happens.
Drupal
On our sister site