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Announcing Lullabot

Matt Westgate and Jeff Robbins are proud to announce the launch of Lullabot (the consulting group) and www.lullabot.com (the website). We hope to be a great resource for companies and individuals who are trying to gain a better understanding of the Drupal CMS and framework.

Dries is drinking own champagne

After half a decade of being the lead of the best code any Content Management Framework has, Dries' personal site has been Drupalised at last.

GUADEC logo and Drupal theme contest

GUADEC is the main event of the GNOME community, celebrated once a year. We have recently adopted Drupal as the platform of the GUADEC's website (http://beta.guadec.org) and we have decided to launch a contest to choose a GUADEC logo and Drupal theme: Artists Wanted.

Drupal in Top 5

At the end of the year, people tend to look back and describe retrospective what the last year has brought them. In the case of Tod Maffin -a CBC's technology columnist and a self acclaimed technology futurist- this means making a TOP5 "list of new products introduced into the market".

His top 5 features products like the Apple Aperture and a Voltaic Solar Backpack, whatever floats your boat. Oddly enough, Tod -running an undrupalised blog- sees Drupal as one of the Top5 products.

For those who think open-source software is a loosely written collection of code that college students hack together when they’re hung over Sunday mornings waiting for their dorm buddies to make them breakfast (not that I have any personal experience), expect to be blown away by Drupal. Drupal is built by the open-source community, yes, but these aren’t your dropout hackers — these are dedicated professionals running firms like Bryght who are consulting with big companies on the new Internet economy.

I like the fact that Drupal is up there and getting its airtime. However, if Tod is a true technology futurist he is spotting the power of Drupal a bit late. And Drupal isnt introduced "in the market" in 2005, Drupal is half a decade old with lots of true Drupal-Rockstars working on it daily.

Druplicon on the cover of PHP | Architect

PHPArchitect is a printed magazine devoted to spreading information about PHP and related projects like MySQL, PHPMyAdmin and... Drupal! Look at the cover of the current issue and you will see 70% of the frontpage is taken by our beloved Druplicon.

Organizations, these days, are demanding content management applications, from company homepages to large, community websites. Author Titus Barik shows you how you can let Drupal help you build these sites quickly and efficiently by building on a common, modular framework.

On this page, Druplicon is introduced to the public as:

If you've already seen the cover (and if not, take a look!), you may be wondering what that raindrop-type-character is all about. It's called the "Druplicon," and it's the mascot and logo for a PHP content management system that is gaining more and more momentum: Drupal. Titus Barik takes you through the basics of how to use Drupal to create a real website, in short order, and without rewriting that same form-processing code.

My Drupal book has arrived!

Today I received a very nice package in the mail; my Drupal book is finally available!

Robert Douglass' Drupal bookWhen I first met Dries Buytaert, in February in Antwerp, we discussed the need for a book explaining how to use Drupal. We agreed that such a book would be a great asset to the many people who are becoming interested in our great software. Since I had already decided that it was my goal to write a Drupal book, I expressed this to Dries.

Soon after the conference, Dries was approached by Matt Wade, an editor at Apress, about writing 1/3 of a book about building online communities. The other 2/3 would discuss phpBB and WordPress, two other immensely popular projects that address different niches. As Dries was too busy with his studies to write a book, he introduced me to Matt.

The result was a project that lasted until October; writing the first book about Drupal. I knew that I would need lots of support, and therefore asked James Walker to be the technical editor. This turned out to be a very good move, as James is a "Drupal Rockstar" who always knows the smallest technical details, and has worked with many many clients and other people to know which parts of Drupal are hard to grasp, and where the hidden sticking points are. He helped me decide how to present the many concepts and capabilities that are not always intuitive.

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