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This is one is via XKCD.

Too bad this is no longer applicable to scripted/interpreted languages like PHP, Python and Ruby ...

NowPublic, a citizen journalism web site, raised US $10.6 million in venture capital financing. NowPublic is also expanding its partneship with Associated Press.

Time magazine has put NowPublic on the top 50 websites for 2007.

Can Drupal run on the iPhone?

Well, not yet, but perhaps soon.

A while back Karoly Negyesi (chx) posted on what is the smallest platform that can run Drupal. He ended up with the Nokia N800 internet tablet as a candidate for that, using maemo (a Linux distro for that platform, which includes PHP and lighttpd). SQLite will be the database.

Dries and Karlijn recently celebrated their first baby's six year birthday.

But, they are expecting their second baby, which is more special is many ways.

There is debate on whether the new baby will be named Druplicon Jr. or Druplette ...

The community would love to show Dries how much they care about him, and hence a collection pool has been setup.

Contrary to all what Dries has been saying, the webmaster is not dead! It is alive and well, and here is the video to prove it!

Last year Gabor Hojtsy posted on Drupal's development mailing list about Ohloh, a site that inspects and reports Open Source software projects.

The bulk of web hosts are still on PHP4, despite PHP5 being out for years. PHP5, and specially PHP5.2, offers a lot of features that make developing in PHP far better than being held back with PHP4's feature set.

So, a bunch of activists in the Drupal community started talking to other PHP based applications to say enough is enough, and push for more adoption of PHP 5.2 by web hosts and projects alike.

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chx is Karoly Negyesi, who brings us the new rewritten menu system in Drupal 6.

Everyone knows that chx cannot be distracted.

Maybe if we chip in and he gets his dream Toshiba R500 laptop, he will be distracted after all. This is because the screen is a tiny 12.1".

Last time I used that size was mid 1990s.

There has always been a running joke in the Drupal community that Dries is secretly working on a Java port of Drupal, using an SVN repository. While it makes for a good occasional laugh, there is some truth to that.

Now, Drupal on Caucho has been benchmarked and found to be 3.5 to 4 X faster than Apache and PHP.

This is a photo of the famous Hungarian classical composer Bela Bartok upon his graduation from high school. I can't help but see the almost identical hair style that Dries uses.Well, not bad for a hair style to come back after a century!