News and announcements

This is the second of the Etopian Drupal Distributions. It contains all the themes, most of the modules, and one consolidated additional database schema for mysql. Once again, this is not sponsored, supported, or checked by drupal.org.

File is about 8 megs, hence the mega:
http://drupal.etopian.net/mega_drupal

Cheers,
Sami

I've put together a proof of concept module to allow administrators of Drupal sites to restrict access to ANY pages of their site, wether there is sufficient access control options or not.

Configuration works in much the same way as the block visibility settings, using Drupal paths and wildcards.
If a match is made then the user is greeted with a 403 Access Denied page.

You can download the module and brief documentation from http://www.ixis.co.uk/drupal-modules/path-access.

Our small team here at Xaneon is a recent convert from Mambo to Drupal. To show our appreciation for this great software, the Xaneon Development Team has secured eight domain names for the upcoming Drupal Foundation, which is being formed to support the further growth of Drupal. We are donating these domains to the Drupal project for eventual use in the upcoming Drupal Foundation.

Read the full story:
http://xaneon.com/news/20050823-drupal-foundation-domain-donation.html

It seems like lots of books about Drupal are going to the press. There is rumour about at least two companies making an English Drupal book and it seems that the addison-wesley department is creating a German Drupal book.

More information at the site (judging by that *extreme* ugly unclean URL they could use a proper Operating System and CMS themselves :-)

I am not a native speaker but with help of babelfish it translates to something like:

In this book Hagen Graf shows, how you to setup on, organize and administer a Website with Drupal 4,6. It describes the Installlation and configuration on different platforms and describes Drupal from the view of the user and the administrator. It described in addition the extension of Drupal with own templates and modules and describes the migration of other Web CMS. An appendix shows beside Tips and Tricks also, how several Drupal based web pages on a Web server are operated.

So nothing too shocking. And focussing on one release is -with the speed of Ink- bound to be overtaken by the future by the time you bought it (there is already a code freeze for 4.7. Still, if you are going to buy it, you might be kind enough to put a review on drupal.org about the book.

In today's Yahoo News, under Tech section in title "Blog tools tackle content Management" I read the following:

"Other tools making waves in the space include open source content management and blog software offerings Drupal and WordPress, and a blog and wiki publishing platform from Five Across."

Full article at: Yahoo News

/From an avid Drupal fan