In the April 5 JavaLobby Newsletter, the editors write:

I just had to say thank-you for Drupal. I recently moved two of my sites over to Drupal. Freejournal.net is running on Drupal 4.5.2 and How-to-box is running on the cvs version. Both are doing extremely well. Especially in the search engine department.

Evolt.org - a world community for web developers, is moving to Drupal, from their custom built Cold Fusion CMS. A highly respected web development site, they host over 1000 articles - and are currently on the move!

The fact that Drupal has yet another large and well established site moving over is great, and really shows how fast Drupal is moving in the the 'serious' CMS field. It will be interesting to hear evolts feedback once the transition is complete!

Jonathan Chaffer, long time Drupal core developer, has written up a long description about Drupal Programming from an Object-Oriented Perspective. It is a highly technical but excellent overview of many of the core concepts of Drupal programming.

Drupal often gets criticized by newcomers who believe that object-oriented programming (OOP) is always the best way to design software architecture, and since they do not see the word "class" in the Drupal code, it must be inferior to other solutions. In fact, it is true that Drupal does not use many of the OOP features of PHP, but it is a mistake to think that the use of classes is synonymous with object-oriented design. This article will cover several of the features of Drupal from an object-oriented perspective, so programmers comfortable with that paradigm can begin to feel at home in the Drupal code base, and hopefully be able to choose the right tool for the job.

By now you may have heard of Ourmedia.org, a project that connects a Drupal-powered front end with the unlimited storage and bandwidth of the Internet Archive. It went live, with some hickups, a little over a week ago, and now has over 9,000 users registered. Marc Canter and JD Lasica are the project founders, and continue to drive it forward.

People new to Drupal have started asking about the codebase associated with Ourmedia, so I'm writing up this short post mainly for them. Bryght helped developed portions of Ourmedia, most notably the glue code to the Internet Archive, funded by Marc Canter's Broadband Mechanics company. James Walker worked with Parker Thompson of the Internet Archive to get this code up and running. That will be made available, although developers will need to make their own arrangements with the Internet Archive.

This is the third theme by designer Chris Messina (a.k.a. FactoryJoe), who brought us the distinctive style of SpreadFireFox, and the Democratica themes.

This theme is already in use on the Of, By and For web site.