Drupal

Here is yet another example of Drupal being used as the basis of a custom "distro".

Ubuntu now has UbuntuDrupal which is used for the LoCo's (Local Communities).

Its original aim is to make Drupal easier to setup (which they describe as "painful") and run for these communities. They say that it has grown to be a "general development suite".

We all know that kittens get killed when you hack Drupal core.

But that is nothing? How about kitten torture?

Anyone Flash guru up for remixing that with Druplicon?

It is only fitting that someone from Washington DC gets to commit the 180,000th commit to the Drupal repository, during the code sprint at DrupalCon DC 2009.

Congratulations to Jeff Miccolis from Development Seed.

[Edit: Changed Jim to Jeff]

The "curse of the DrupalCon" continues ...

Which one? The fact that wireless is always an issue, perhaps at least in the North American DrupalCons of late.

At Boston, we had severe issues. Narayan Newton and David Strauss re-wired the conference to use the presenters' connection. That helped a bit, but if I remember correctly there was another issue after that (bandwidth, fake DDoS detection or something).

Now in Washington DC, the internet is still unreliable. Why you ask?

Here is why: The DHCP lease for the IP is very short: less than 5 minutes!

Look at this:

There was this post on Slashdot about Wordpress and Joomla! and which one is more usable.

Someone posted about Drupal using terms that we all in the Drupal community will like, e.g. "use Drupal!".

We always saw Drupal with a reputation of being "powerful but ugly", "elegant from the inside but not pretty", ...etc.

Humor within the Drupal community never ceases to amaze me.

Today, while the Durpal Association was having a Board Meeting in IRC this nugget was in the discussion

[2009-02-12 13:45] <J> ANY LAST QUESTIONS?
[2009-02-12 13:45] <J> 60 seconds
[2009-02-12 13:45] <J> 50 seconds
[2009-02-12 13:45] * J hears crickets
[2009-02-12 13:45] <J> 30 seconds
[2009-02-12 13:45] * L steps on one of the crickets.
[2009-02-12 13:46] * M chirps

Made me chuckle ...

Are you passionate about Drupal?

Would you like to volunteer for the Drupal Association?

Do you have skills that can help promote Drupal in new frontiers? Help organize events locally, regionally and globally?

If you answer yes to all the above, then the association is holding its second annual elections shortly. The deadline for applications is one day away. Applications are due by end of day tomorrow (February 10, 2009).

Ever wondered why the weird date used for HTTP headers in Drupal? Specifically, did you ever check the Expires: header in Drupal?

You may have stumbled on it while inspecting header data using wget or FireFox tamper data. Or you were simply browsing Drupal's source code in bootstrap.inc, and saw this?

header("Expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT");

Well, that magical date is today, and it is Dries' birthday. So he turns 30 years old today!

Three data points:

Commit #50,000: Jan, 4, 2007.

Commit #100,000: Feb 9, 2008.

Commit #150,000: Oct 30, 2008.

Took 13 months and one week for the second 50,000 commits, but only 8 months and 3 weeks for the third 50,000.

So, the rate of code contributions is accelerating.

Ontario Linux Fest 2008 is this coming Saturday, October 25th.

A lot more tracks than last year, which I have yet to blog! Here is the detailed schedule.

Drupal has three spots: