[drupal-docs] Drupal Drops Newsletter - May 23, 2005 - Draft

[Anisa]

Run a spell check on it.

Does Drupal.org need to be linked?  If it does, then does Drupal need to 
be linked?

Sometimes in my head I think of Drupal and Drupal.org as rather 
synonymous things, maybe that's just me.

Anisa.

Robin Monks wrote:

> This is a "next-to-final" draft.  Here is what remains to be done:
> 1) Retitle the sections, the current titles are a little bland and 
> don't realy match the subjects.
> 2) Add URL's to chx's Drupal Quickies column (I think he's working on 
> this himself, chx?)
> 3) Add a "Cool Tips/Tricks" section, should content be available.
>
> Robin
>
> -.-.-
>
> Drupal Drops - English Edition
> Issue #1 - May 20, 2005
> ___________________________________
>
> Welcome to the first ever Drupal Drops Newsletter!  Drupal Drops will 
> provide monthly information, news and advocacy for, hopefully, 
> everyone's favourite CMS.
>
> The best part, you help write it!  We get all our content from forum 
> posts, changlelogs and monthly contributors.  This means that we are a 
> completely community-powered newsletter.
>
> If you want to contribute to Drupal Drops, you can send information to 
> devlinks at gmail.com <mailto:devlinks at gmail.com> and, if it looks good, 
> it will be included in the next edition of Drupal Drops.
>
> Over the last month Drupal 4.6 was released.  You'll find some of the 
> latest updates from Drupal 4.6 to CVS in this month's Updates section.
>
> All of us sincerely hope you'll enjoy Drupal Drops!
>
> Robin Monks
> Drupal Drops Editor
>
> ___________________________________
>
> 1) Drupal Sightings
> ___________________________________
>
> Rasmus Lerdorf_____________________
> There is now no doubt that Rasmus Lerdorf (creator of PHP) knows about 
> Drupal.  Thanks to the quick thought and camera skills of Gordon 
> Heydon, this (http:// buytaert.net/albums/miscellaneous-2005/11/ 
> <http://buytaert.net/albums/miscellaneous-2005/11/>) photo was snapped 
> at the Australia national Linux conference in April with Rasmus and 
> Drupalicon.  Great work Gordon!
>
> Yahoo!_____________________________
> A recent article at http://boxesandarrows.com tells of how, after 
> considering many options (Movable Type, pMachine, PHPNuke, PHPCollab, 
> Tikiwiki and Drupal) and user interface patterns, Yahoo! choose Drupal 
> for it's internal site.  
> "Ultimately, we chose Drupal because of its breadth of capabilities, 
> powerful taxonomy, and extensibility"
> The original article can be found at 
> http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/implementing_a_pattern_library_in_the_real_world_a_yahoo_case_study.php 
> and the drupal.org <http://drupal.org> write-up at 
> http://drupal.org/node/21930 <http://drupal.org/node/21930>.
>
> Dan Gillmor/Bayosphere_____________
> Dan Gillmor (a prominent journalist; http://www.dangillmor.com/) has 
> recently started a grass-roots program ( 
> http://bayosphere.com/node/28) that is happily based on Drupal.  An 
> article on why they choose Drupal can be found at 
> http://bayosphere.com/why-drupal, and the Drupal.org 
> <http://Drupal.org> write up is at http://drupal.org/node/22919.
>
> moby.com___________________________
> Moby.com <http://Moby.com> has also been found to be secretly using 
> Drupal (see the node URL under the news link).  The Drupal.org 
> <http://Drupal.org> comment is at 
> http://drupal.org/node/22919#comment-39354.
>
> ___________________________________
>
> 2) Drupal In The Press
> ___________________________________
>
> Tangent Mobile_____________________
> Tangent Mobile has recently published an article concerning the 
> changing CMS systems and development of these systems.  This article 
> reviews Drupal and WordPress and can be found at 
> http://www.tangentmobile.com/2005/05/05/blogging-content-management-systems-wordpress-drupal/.
>
> Slashdot___________________________
> Slashdot also noted Dan Gillmor's Grassroots Journalism efforts with 
> Drupal at http://slashdot.org/articles/05/05/16/1037230.shtml.
>
> LinuxWorld: South Africa Linux firm
> upgrades corporate identity________
> "Our stand will play host to thought-provoking talks from our experts 
> on... technical topics like... setting up content management with 
> Drupal; and more open source community-focused topics."  
> http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;2032004860;fp;2;fpid;1
>
> ___________________________________
>
> 3) Updates
> ___________________________________
>
> Drupal quickies, May 2005__________
> This is a summary of what the developers are working since Dries has 
> opened the new developer tree on Apr 7, 2005. I presume that you are 
> familiar with Drupal 4.6, I'll list only the major news. This does not 
> mean we discredit those who have fixed bugs, improved help texts and 
> so on, but this newsletter can't include all the changes.
>     * The first big change is the addition of folksonomy support by 
> Morbus Iff. When you are editing a node, you can enter comma separated 
> tags. Simple and effective. You can enable free tagging per 
> vocabulary. For folksonomy vocabularies a pager is added. It is under 
> consideration that this pager should be used for "big" normal 
> vocabularies as well.
>     * jeremy at kerneltrap.org <mailto:jeremy at kerneltrap.org> introduced 
> loose caching. For highly dynamic sites the existing cache mechanism 
> is not performing well. Loose caching keeps caching pages except for 
> specific users who have submitted changes to the site. This means the 
> cache can be used for a couple minutes more, while users still see 
> their own changes reflected immediately. It seems that there are 
> issues and we need locking to make this perfect.
>     * Nedjo added an author information block.
>     * Steven improved the auto-linebreak filter to ignore the contents 
> of <script> and <style> This makes it easier to use JavaScript (e.g. 
> Google AdSense) blocks. For 4.6 as well
>     * Dries and chx added a site-wide contact form (as seen on 
> http://drupal.org/contact) to contact module.
>     * Jose A Reyero reworked the 'request new password' functionality. 
> Drupal now sends a one-time usable URL which lets you log in and 
> change the password.
>     * The queue module has been moved into contrib.
>     * chx has centralized print theme page calls. This lets you put 
> the output of any Drupal call into a block. Several pages turned out 
> to be totally empty after this, but it seems fixed by now.
>     * Stefan and TDobes has made status messages and help themeable.
>     * chx has changed the block configure page based on ideas from 
> Dries. Now you can use PHP code to define pages where a block is 
> visible. Node type constraint is gone.
>     * Dries optimized "Who's online" block and corrected the "Last 
> access" column
> in the user administration overview table. You can now sort users by 'last
> access'.
>     * chx fixed a long outstanding bug regarding duplicate inserts. 
> However, this
> made PHP 4.3 required for Drupal if mysql is used. Also, this bugfix 
> led to
> some code cleanup and speedup in search module by mathias.
>     * mathias and mikeryan improved performance of path aliases.
>     * James and Gerhard made file downloads more robust. Now it's 
> harder for
> contrib modules handling file downloads to create a security hole.
>     * Last but not least, XTemplate engine has been moved to contrib 
> and now PHPTemplate is the default. All hail Adrian for PHPtemplate. 
> Gordon ported Bluemarine and has written a port guide.
>
>
> Stay tuned for more improvements:
>     * Blocks everywhere on the page, not just left and right.
>     * Installation system.
>     * Revisions moved to a separate table. Speaking of revisions, 
> check Moshe Weitzman's diff module in contrib, it's really nice.
>     * Grants based on taxonomy. And an UI to the grant system.
>     * CCK.
> ... and lot more to come!
>
> Karoly Negyesi,
> http://drupal4hu.com/
>
> Drupal.org <http://Drupal.org> Downloads_______________
> Steven has recently updated the Drupal.org <http://Drupal.org> 
> downloads page with a new, better, easier to use interface.  You can 
> see his handiwork at http://drupal.org/project.
>
> ___________________________________
>
> 4) Drupal News
> ___________________________________
>
> Reverse Bounties___________________
> The recent experiment concerning reverse bounties ( 
> http://drupal.org/node/20301) on Drupal.org <http://Drupal.org> is an 
> apparent success; securesite (http://drupal.org/project/securesite 
> <http://drupal.org/project/securesite>) was completed last month 
> (April 25) by Karoly Negyesi.  This experiment is also being 
> duplicated with a portfolio module (http://drupal.org/node/21574).
> This site, http://www.webs4.com/quiz_module, sums up the idea nicely:  
> "It is often said that open source software is all about scratching 
> one's own itch...We have also noticed that many itches go 
> unscratched...One recourse would be to hire other programmers to 
> produce the desired software. Get some help with all the scratching. 
> Few programmers, however, have the resources to hire others to do 
> programming for them...But what if more than one person has the same 
> itch? The great thing about software is that, at least in theory, a 
> problem can be solved once and the solution shared infinite times. So 
> if all of the people who are interested in solving a certain problem 
> could just get together and pitch in their spare change, might they 
> not be able to hire that programmer after all?"
>
> Drupal Documentation_______________
> The new Drupal Documentation project (found at 
> http://lists.drupal.org/listinfo/drupal-docs) is now underway.  Users 
> and developers are encouraged to contribute and give suggestions to 
> the future of Drupal documentation resources.
>
> ___________________________________
>
> 5) Drupal Talk
> ___________________________________
>
> Interview: Károly Négyesi__________
> This month, I'll be interviewing Károly Négyesi (a Drupal core 
> contributor).  Hopefully we'll be interview various contributors over 
> the next issues.  Now, on with the interview!
>
> Robin Monks: How did you first start working with Internet CMSs?
>
> Károly Négyesi: A friend of mine and I was building a few small web 
> sites in the years 2002-2004 but we reached a point where it was too 
> cumbersome and slow to build everything from ground up each time.  So, 
> we were searching for a CMS and we were pretty desperate. Every system 
> we found was bloated and hard to expand.  
>     Then, on May 29, 2004 another friend of mine had toted me to the 
> Hungarian PHP conference.  Goba spoke about Drupal. I was stunned. I 
> sent my partner an SMS during the speech "we have our CMS".
>
> Robin: So, what were your first thoughts about Drupal?
>
> Károly: "I was looking for this since January!" Really, this was my 
> first thought
>
> Robin: So, an intense feeling of heart-felt excitement?
>
> Károly: Yes. It felt right just by looking at the presentation.
>
> Robin: So, how long before you started actually using Drupal?
>
> Károly: After that talk? Immediately. When I got home that evening.
>
> Robin: How long did it take you to set up Drupal as your CMS?
>
> Károly: Well, the basic setup was always very simple, I do not 
> remember the exact time but it was never more than say, 15 minutes.
>
> Robin: OK, and how long before you actually started deploying Drupal?
>
> Károly: Well, that was a long process I immediately begin working on a 
> client's website, which took more than a month, and the result was 
> horrible.  I needed to completely rewrite it for 4.5.
>
> Robin: Approximate how long before you, say, contributed to Drupal itself?
>
> Károly: My first core patch?
>
> Robin: Yes, or contributed module.
>
> Károly: ChangeSet 3751 · 2004/09/15 09:54:32 GMT · dries    k77 +6 
> -1    
>       - Made it possible for the i18n module to hook in.    
>       includes/common.inc    1.389    +6 -1
>       that was it
>       I needed i18n for said client... classical example of "scratch 
> your own itch"
>
> Robin: OK.  So, in all, how have you found the Drupal community?
>
> Károly: The community... hmm, that was another slow process, I began 
> to comment here and there on drupal.org <http://drupal.org> and we 
> started drupal.hu <http://drupal.hu> also in the fall of 2004.  But 
> close relations did not happen... well, until DrupalCon, I guess.  
> This, http://drupal.org/node/14731, was also an important step.
>
> Robin: OK, so, what would you tell someone who wasn't using Drupal now?
>
> Hmm... It is very easy to set up a Web 2.0 website with Drupal.  Even 
> not so basic sites are easy to build because of the plethora of 
> contrib modules.
>
> Robin: Any final comments for our readers?
>
> Károly: Try Drupal! Experiment freely and you'll be surprised how far 
> you can get.
> Robin: OK, great interview!  Thanks for your time!
>
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