Drupal News & Articles

For super-techies, Drupalcon is fast approaching. And now there’s a miniature event for the casual coder: Drupalshow, which takes place at the same time.

You can hit either or both Drupalcon and Drupalshow at the Citilab in Cornellà, Barcelona.

With help from the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, the infrastructure team and association for open source web CMS project Drupal got some significant changes made to Drupal.org - which, in recent months, has become a bit laggy as its popularity builds.

SpikeSource has announced the latest version of its SpikeIgnited version of the Drupal web CMS solution. With Drupal 5.1 as its muse, this is the first SpikeSource solution that’s been tested and certified for both Microsoft Windows and Linux.

Europe is the hot spot for techies this fall. Those going to the Plone Conference in Naples this October may find yet another reason to visit the Old Continent with DrupalCon coming up. This year it takes place in Barcelona, Spain.

Just in case you have not gotten enough open source cms news in recent days, here is one more item for your plate.

The next version of the popular open source Web CMS platform, Drupal, has entered a code freeze as the development team works toward stabilization. As exciting as this announcement is for Drupal users, what is more interesting is that with this version 6.0 Drupal joins AOL, LiveJournal, Moveable Type v4.0 and Wordpress.com, among others, in supporting the new OpenID authentication standard.

Everybody was keyed-up, waiting for Blaine Cook of Twitter to talk, and he finally did. It wasn’t quite what we expected (well, what were we expecting?), but it was nonetheless educational and really sort of surprising.

Cook took advantage of a long list of Twitter’s mistakes and weaknesses to introduce us to Starling, his response to platforms based on Erlang and other technologies — which he asserts would have been a general nightmare.

Little more than six weeks after the release of SamePage 3.1, eTouch announced the availability of SamePage 3.2 at the recent Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The latest release of the Enterprise Wiki solution rounds a number of corners and simplifies integration of 3rd party Web 2.0 services.

More than 25 percent of critical data in Fortune 1,000 companies is poor quality because organizations have little experience in managing content.

While our host waxes poetic about dinosaurs, I’m going to take an opportunity to update you on all the good that’s gone down this morning.

Sun Microsystems senior staff engineer Tor Norbye kicked us off this morning with Ruby Tooling: State of the Art. For those expecting the him to get dangerously gung-ho about Ruby’s merits (Sun is, after all, getting quite intimate with jRuby), we (yeah, we) were mildly disappointed.

All the twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.

This week’s highlights include:

• MS Builds Media Management Offering on SharePoint. Microsoft automates the (human) interactive media manager. Any surprise?
• Xerox Proves It’s More than Just Hardware. The copy guys go down ECM Lane. Can they handle it?
• Zenoss Shows Fangs with Sharp Use of Open Source. Apparently there is such a thing as a business that can thrive on a 100 percent open source diet.
• Movable Type Gets Security Update, Easier Downloads. Exactly what it sounds like.
• CMS Watch Releases ECM Suites Report. Before commiting to an enterprise CMS, find out what kind of options are out there and which services best suit you.

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of (if unique visits are anything to go by, anyway). These days everybody’s an OSS-head…

• What is Web 2.0 Content Management? (Part 1)
• Alfresco: One of Ten Enterprise Software Companies to Watch
• Bye Microsoft CMS, Hello MOSS WCM
• Open Source: Joomla CMS Dances Off the Mambo Floor
• Why Simplicity is Essential to Web Design

It’s good news from Down Under! Gordon Heydon of Aussie services firm Heydon Consulting has lead the release of E-Commerce version 3 for Drupal. This collection of Drupal add-ons empowers Open Source webmasters to set up online stores and hock their wares in an all Drupal environment. Oh the joy!

This week brought some very welcome news to Drupal fans around the world. The Drupal Association was formed putting a more business front end on the Drupal development community. All of the cool FOSS kids are doing it.

It’s not every day here at CMSWire that we can wholeheartedly recommend torrenting a video. However, the times, they are a changin’.

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Some of the first benchmarks of Drupal 5 vs. Drupal 4.7 are now surfacing, and for you OSS fans out there considering an upgrade, the news is good. For the laggards amongst us, you all have one more reason to get off the couch.