Top Notch Themes: Drupal 6 themes now available from TopNotchThemes!

Drupal Planet - 19 hours 7 min ago

Hot off the press, many of our themes are now available as Drupal 6 themes. Just in time for the stable releases that everyone’s been waiting for—CCK 2 and Views 2 for Drupal 6—you can now get an advanced theme for your Drupal 6 site from TopNotchThemes. Ubercart and Panels for D6 are also around the corner!

Not a coder? No problem.

Our Drupal 6 themes have had a complete overhaul. With the new theme settings available in Drupal 6, you’ll have more of Drupal’s power in your hands. On one page you can easily personalize your theme for better SEO, configure the wording of common site text, choose how the author, date, taxonomy terms, and search results are shown, and more!

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Matthew Saunders: What Am I Reading? Selling Online with Drupal eCommerce

Drupal Planet - 20 hours 15 min ago

I'm about a third of the way through Michael Peacock's Selling Online with Drupal eCommerce. PACKT Publishing sent me a review copy about six weeks ago which I have now gotten down to reading. So far it seems an easy read with simple instructions on setting up an online shop. Too bad it isn't available for D6 yet!

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10 "Really Cool" Icon Sets for Ubuntu/GNOME Desktop

Digg Technology - 20 hours 25 min ago
I’m going to share to you some of my favorite set of icons. These are specifically made for Ubuntu, as well as any other Linux distro with a GNOME desktop. So here they are:
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Apple Imperfect

Digg Technology - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 03:41
A botched launch of MobileMe — the company’s new data-syncing service — has led Apple to make repeated offers of free services to frustrated customers. And there have been teething problems for its generally well-received 3G iPhone, including flaky reception and weak battery life.
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Dmitri Gaskin: Angela Byron named core maintainer for Drupal 7

Drupal Planet - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 00:24

I had four reactions to this, that went in this order:

  1. CONGRATS
  2. Does she have time for this with the book and everything?
  3. Oh wait. She said the book would be DONE by Drupalcon.
  4. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

I expect to see patches flying in (almost literally, except for the fact that it would take a while to fly from Montreal, her home base, to OSUOSL in Oregon, where the Drupal repositories are), especially testing patches.

I'm surprised there hasn't been more noise about this on the planet, but CONGRATS!

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Apple iPhone Ad Banned In UK Due To "Misleading" Claims

Digg Technology - Wed, 08/27/2008 - 23:50
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said it received complaints from two local viewers who took issue with a claim in the 30-second spot which stated that "all the parts of the internet are on the iPhone." That assertion was misleading, they said, because the iPhone does not support Flash or Java, two proprietary technologies that sometimes
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Repeat Tests Show iPhone 3G Has No Faulty Hardware

Digg Technology - Wed, 08/27/2008 - 23:10
After lab results demonstrated that the iPhone 3G's antenna actually functions normally, critics complained that the tests didn't represent their own experiences. So the tests were performed again on two phones that had been experiencing severe problems for some users; the verdict was the same: no hardware problems found.
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Wolfgang Ziegler: Drupalcon and the Rules BETA1!

Drupal Planet - Wed, 08/27/2008 - 21:29

I'm happy to announce the rules 6.x 1.0 BETA 1 release. Check out the rules project page and try it. Now the API is frozen and modules developers are encouraged to write module integration and to port their workflow-ng integration to rules. You can find the documentation here.

To get token support everywhere in your actions you just have to install the latest development snapshot of it.

Now basically everything is there, including support for

  • firing core actions
  • grouping rules in rule sets
  • scheduling arbitrary rule sets
  • a module input evaluation system
  • and much more!

If you want to know more details about the improvements done for rules 6.x check out the development status page or the slides from the drupalcon session.

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Lullabot: Drupalcon Szeged, Day 1

Drupal Planet - Wed, 08/27/2008 - 19:38

Whew. So day 1 of Drupalcon Szeged was a whirlwind of fun. Szeged is a very cool town. Lots of things going on, easy to get around and the weather is awesome! I'm not a good note-taker at all but here are the highlights for my day:

During Dries' State of Drupal presentation, he announced that webchick is the new maintainer for Drupal 7. Of course, Angie rocks and is taking the year by storm. It has been so cool to see her recognized so much for all the amazing things she has done and continues to do. I'm so proud to be not only her co-worker, but also her friend. Inspiring to say to the least.

Right after that I headed off to give my Gentle introduction to Drupal coding presentation (a PDF of the slides is on that page too). This was the first time I'd done this presentation and I got lots of really good feedback from folks who attended. It was quite a bit of fun and I look forward to expanding on intro coding types of presentations in the future.

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How Simple Web Design Helps Your Business

Digg Technology - Wed, 08/27/2008 - 19:20
It’s crucial to have simple web designs to allow the user to quickly find the information they need, especially if you are selling a product. If the page is cluttered with useless text, widgets or unrelated products, the site becomes meaningless.
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CiviCRM Blog: Keep CiviCRM for Drupal 5?

Drupal Planet - Wed, 08/27/2008 - 19:07

My self-appointed job is to hangout around here and complain about how CiviCRM could be more like Drupal or better implemented with Drupal. Instead of banning me from the forums and IRC for being annoying, Lobo gave me blogging access. So I'm writing to share about my latest campaign to Druplify CiviCRM.

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Space Cube - The World's Smallest Linux PC

Digg Technology - Wed, 08/27/2008 - 18:40
Meet the Space Cube — the world's smallest fully functional PC. Primarily designed for use in space, it somehow manages to cram a working PC with USB ports, card readers, audio outputs and proprietary interfaces into a tiny cube chassis measuring just two inches square. It runs a basic Linux front-end.
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Huge iPhone Security Flaw Opens All Private Information

Digg Technology - Wed, 08/27/2008 - 17:40
There's a huge security problem in the latest iPhone 2.0.2: if you have your JesusPhone password protected, using a very simple trick gives anyone full access to your cellphone private information in Mail, SMS, Contacts, and even Safari. The two-step trick is even simpler to the one used in the past to jailbreak and install unlock cards.
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Acquia: Come join the private beta

Drupal Planet - Wed, 08/27/2008 - 17:24

As you may have heard over on TechCrunch, the Acquia private beta program is in full swing. Beta testers are able to download and test our commercially supported Drupal distribution (aka "Carbon") and utilize our new web-based network services and support delivery platform (aka "Spokes").

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Arthur Foelsche: SSH Key Manger Module?

Drupal Planet - Wed, 08/27/2008 - 16:51
A post about using Media Mover to mirror files across multiple servers got me thinking about how to securely manage remote server access in Drupal. Keeping server account data in Drupal’s database is a bad idea- a compromise to your site means a compromise to all the servers that you have in the system. While [...]
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RIAA wins P2P case after defendant reformats hard drive

Digg Technology - Wed, 08/27/2008 - 16:50
One of the most closely watched copyright infringement lawsuits brought by the RIAA appears to have come to a screeching halt, much to the music industry's delight.
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Official: First Google Android Phone Design Image

Digg Technology - Wed, 08/27/2008 - 16:30
The first design image of the HTC Dream AKA T-Mobile G1 better known as the first Google Android OS powered phone is out via the AndroidGuys. The phone seems inspired by HTC's Sidekick in its QWERTY keyboard, buttons layout and slide out screen. It also seems to have a slim form factor, which should help it compete with Apple's iPhone or the new Bl
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Freakonomics: What Does a Sick C.E.O. Do to His Company?

Digg Technology - Wed, 08/27/2008 - 15:50
When Steve Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003, Apple waited until after his surgery to tell the public and shareholders — yet company stock only fell 2.4 percent on the next trading day. But Jobs’s gaunt appearance while speaking at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June and the speculation about his health [...]
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Lasers Could Send World's Most Secure Messages Through Space

Digg Technology - Wed, 08/27/2008 - 15:40
New experiments using Heisenberg's uncertainty principle extend the range of quantum cryptography, an advanced method of communicating in unbreakable code. Finding a way to keep snoops from tapping into other people's information is a challenge that has gone to the subatomic level. First proposed in 1984, quantum cryptography (QC) promises to send
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OpenSourcery: Drupalcon: Rasmus Lerdorf, PHP performance, and a Drupal performance correction

Drupal Planet - Wed, 08/27/2008 - 14:57

Today, on the first day of Drupalcon, Rasmus Lerdorf gave a fantastic presentation about PHP, performance, scalability and security. In this talk (the slides are available here), he discussed the writing of frameworks, and how they tend to trade off performance for what might be deemed as cleaner code. After walking through some very cool benchmarking methods (see slides 8, 14 and 16), he proceeded to benchmark some of the more popular PHP frameworks out there (slides 24 through 32). Unfortunately, when it came to Drupal, it was benchmarked without caching enabled. I have duplicated his Hello World module, and enabled it on a clean Drupal 6 install.

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