News and announcements

Someone has just tried a nasty little attack on our Drupal-based site, www.bachtrack.com. The attack failed, but I thought it was worth posting a warning to others. If there's a better place to post this (a security forum somewhere else?) someone please let me know.

The attacker registered as a user, and posted a piece of Javascript into as many places as he could find to add content to the site - including his signature and a couple of custom forms. The intention of the script was to set the passwords of all users to "password" (I've shown the script in full below).

PC Pro Magazine has reviewed Drupal in 2006 and 2008, and now they turn their attention once again to Drupal v7.

In this article : http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2011/02/02/joomla-1-6-vs-drupal-7-0/ Drupal 7 and Joomla 1.6 go head to head.

Some extracts:
"as Joomla digs deeper to graft on similar power, it actually ends up becoming more complicated than Drupal."
"Drupal 7.0 remains the more powerful framework and indeed extends its lead."

I'm pleased to announce that Peachpit Press published "Drupal 7: Visual QuickStart Guide" just before the software's release in January. The book is aimed at Drupal beginners, and as part of their popular VQS series will expand Drupal's audience among those who trust this well-established brand.

Its chapter titles are:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Getting Drupal Up and Running
• Chapter 2: Establishing Your Drupal Site
• Chapter 3: Creating and Managing Content
• Chapter 4: Customizing Content
• Chapter 5: Making Content Interactive
• Chapter 6: Improving Access to Content
• Chapter 7: Wrangling Users
• Chapter 8: Customizing Drupal's Look and Feel
• Chapter 9: Extending Drupal with Modules
• Appendix: Getting (and Giving) Help
• Glossary: Drupal Terms and Culture
• Index

Its web site at http://drupalvqs.com includes a sample chapter ("Customizing Content") and complete Table of Contents.

The most popular HD FLV Player from Contus Support Interactive, which has been downloaded more than 100,000 times online till date, and embedded in more than 15,000 websites, will be now available for Drupal.It is very easy for the Drupal users now, to install the most user friendly and features rich web FLV Player in few moments. They can get the full fledged HD video Player for Drupal CMS with all the enhanced features from: http://www.hdflvplayer.net/drupal-web-video-player/

We're sponsoring a few projects in the coming months. First of all we are going to start with powerful invoice module for Drupal. We found a few modules in Drupal but they are not really flexible and features are very limited right now. So we decided to integrate with one of the best opensource invoicing app.
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