We are having a Drupal meet-up for everyone in the Washington, DC, area next week on Thursday, November 2nd at 7pm.



The folks at the Science Club (1136 19th St NW) have been gracious enough to get us a private space on the second floor again, so after some mingling we will take 20 minutes for three short presentation sprints and rock the mini projector :).

Drupal 4.6.10 and Drupal 4.7.4 are available for download. These are maintenance releases that fix problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as three security vulnerabilities.

Upgrading your existing Drupal sites is strongly recommended.

Download

• Drupal 4.7.4 can be downloaded from http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/drupal/files/projects/drupal-4.7.4.tar.gz.
• Drupal 4.6.10 can be downloaded from http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/drupal/files/projects/drupal-4.6.10.tar.gz.

Edit: these releases do not support PHP 5.2 yet, but the next minor releases will.

IBM's authors have been writing a fantastic series of articles about Drupal. They just released the 9th installment where they investigate Drupal's database abstraction layer in some depth. As an added bonus, they give us a little gift: new support for an important database - IBM DB2 Express-C. Thanks, IBM!

Date: Thursday 26th October 2006, 1:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Location: Olympia 2, London, UK Google map

Drupal Drop In for October will be moved forward by a day, and location for this month will be the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2006.

We'll be doing various demonstrations in the afternoon, and then there'll be a social get together at a nearby pub - check this page next week for pub location if you want to meet us after the show.

There is an effort to bring internationalization (i18n) tools to Drupal core. But to make this happen first we need your help! We are about to introduce content translation capabilities into Drupal, and to do it best, we would like to ask for your feedback in two areas.

1. If you have used any system which has decent internationalization support, please provide us with a link and a short overview of how that system is good in internationalization. We are looking at how well others do it to learn from them.
2. If you have built a site with Drupal or some other system, where internationalization was a requirement, we would welcome a writeup of how did i18n fit into that system, what were the requirements and the desired workflow. We are looking for use cases to build a map of what should we think about when planning the Drupal internationalization subsystem.

If you provide some feedback, your needs and requirements might eventually get satisfied in the final implementation. If you keep your ideas yourself, we might end up with a system, which solves our problems nicely, but not yours. You can also join the internationalization working group, if you would like to be a more active contributor to the movement.

I'd just like to say that caching support kicks ass. My site (http://www.wii-linux.com/) was slashdotted and dugg at the same time yesterday, peaking at around 18,000 pageviews. The server is a dedicated single processor xeon running apache2/mysql on ubuntu breezy badger server with no special tweaks for speed. I had the cache set to 15mins, and throttled some of the more processor intensive stuff and there was only a slight slowdown in usability overall.