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I just wanted to make everyone aware that I will be letting go my barely used PRO DRUPAL DEVELOPMENT BOOK

I think that Drupal is awesome I used it for a couple of projects and now my company is asp.net .. YEAH .. not I would rather be working with drupal any day of the week than asp.net. I hope this goes to someone that can use it to its fullest ability.

Thanks for checking it out.

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A new book that teaches users how to create themes for Drupal websites has been published by Packt Publishing. Written by prominent open source and Content Management expert Ric Shreves, ‘Drupal 5 Themes’ helps readers create striking new looks for their Drupal websites.

After lots of work, doing tests and fixing bugs, a beta version of drool has been released for developers and testers.

Drool, which was demonstrated last year at DrupalCon in Barcelona, is a command-line tool that automates the mundane tasks of managing Drupal Web sites on a server and also offers a few more novel features. It can create new sites, install modules and themes directly from drupal.org, and clone one Drupal site to another. It helps you rapidly design themes by automatically skinning images (i.e. chopping and slicing them up for CSS scaling) onto regions of a theme.

Pebble Studio London is now developing a Drupal site after some research into various options. The main purpose of PSL is to produce Human Rights TV. This project is set in open source tools and has led the way into converting the studio across to a Linux platform using Kdenlive as the editing tool of choice. 2008 promises to be a big year for both PSL and HRTV and there is a desire for us to become more a part of the community and support and promote development.

Hi,

Drigg is a module that adds digg-style features and functionality to the award-winning free/open source Drupal content management system (CMS). In conjunction with Drupal it provides a democratic, community driven site
which can be set up to mimic Digg.

Digg, originally launched three years ago, is the major player and arguably the initiator of community-driven democratic news hubs. Digg's popularity is mainly due to the idea behind it, and its democratic and userdriven system.
However, Digg's software is proprietary and the code is not revealed to the public. Pligg was released as a free/open source software CMS designed to provide users with a Digg-style site. It has been the only option for web developers wishing to build community-driven democratic sites for the past couple of years, but development and usability problems have plagued Pligg.

Enter Free Software Magazine's Editor In Chief Tony Mobily. Mobily has created a new free software system to rival Digg named after a the town in the UK in which he previously lived Drigg (also conveniently a cross between Drupal and Digg). Drigg, which is based on Drupal, allows anybody to create and modify their own Digg-style site.