Submitted by Jeff Geerling on January 15, 2010 - 3:45pm
As explained on Drupal.org today, Drupal 7.0 Alpha 1 has been released, and it incorporates (among other things) a revamped user interface, custom fields (CCK) in core, image handling in core, an update manager, and a ton of 'under the hood' improvements.
This is going to be the best Drupal release to date, for two reasons:
Submitted by Jeff Geerling on December 21, 2009 - 5:49pm
A project I'm working on required a user's signature be displayed on the user's blog posts (only on the page—not in blog teaser listings), and after much wrangling, I figured out how to put the 'Biography' (one of the user profile fields) into the nodes when they were viewed individually.
Here's the snippet (to be placed into node.tpl.php or node-blog.tpl.php):
Submitted by Jeff Geerling on December 3, 2009 - 5:31pm
From time to time, I've had to update my airyblue project in CVS (Airy Blue is a light, airy, Zen subtheme listed on Drupal.org's Themes section). It's always a bother, and I always end up spending about 20 minutes figuring out how to check out the module to my local computer (I use three of them, so even if I have it set up on one, I need to get it going on another sometimes), then another 20 figuring out how to commit my changes, tag a release, etc.
So, this post might be titled "How to Maintain a Theme on Drupal.org if You're Confounded by the CVS Guide for Theme Maintainers, and you are on a computer on which you haven't checked out your module yet."
Logging in, Setting up CVSROOT
Submitted by Jeff Geerling on November 20, 2009 - 1:54pm
It would seem Google has rolled out a new indexing/display feature that finds breadcrumbs and displays them instead of URLs for certain search results. Drupal's already game, it seems, judging by numerous searches I've taken a glance at today:
I guess since Drupal's built towards this kind of data heirarchy, Google quickly and easily indexes the breadcrumbs... any other sites/CMSs already in the index in this manner?
Also, I wonder what this will do in terms of eye tracking and such - the first time I noticed it, my eye went to the URL immediately - of course, that could just be due to the novelty of the thing.
Submitted by Jeff Geerling on November 10, 2009 - 12:40pm
Packt publishing just announced earlier this morning that Drupal has won the 2009 Open Source PHP CMS award!
Packt Publishing is pleased to announce that Drupal has won the Best Open Source PHP CMS Category in the 2009 Open Source CMS Award. This category featured a very close contest between the top three, Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla! in which Drupal ended up as the overall choice for the judges and the public.
Joomla was the second place winner (kudos to them as well!); read the original release here.
With Drupal being used on Whitehouse.gov, AT&T's mobile apps website, and countless other corporate sites and subsites, it's a good time to be in the Open Source arena!
More award categories will be announced soon!
Submitted by Jeff Geerling on October 30, 2009 - 8:21am
From strictly a hardware perspective, the Droid cannot beat the iPhone. (For those who don't yet know: the Droid is Motorola's 'savior phone,' which they hope will make them a prominent phone handset maker again). How can I be sure? Well, look at the below diagram:
Basically, it comes down to originality, memorability, and design.
Feature for feature, the Droid competes well with the iPhone. Google Android 2.0 is pretty cool, too. But look at the above marketing images:
