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Team Lullabot is really excited to unveil O'Reilly Media's first Drupal book, Using Drupal, due out next month. (BTW, that's a dormouse on the cover. :))Our motivation for writing this book was that most peoples' first experience with Drupal involves getting it installed successfully, but then being left with the question, "What next?

Hi,Iteration 8 is now available for you to browse and comment on.

There have been a lot of bug fixes as well as the a complete rewrite of the checkout. The checkout ATM is only a single page and options like changing address and payment type have not been put back in. These are going to use the #ahah feature of the new formapi to allow users to change much easier.

CMS Wire recent took a look at Technorati's Top 100 blog sites and determined which CMS the sites were using most.  They concluded, not surprisingly, that Wordpress was the most popular CMS with 34% of the top sites using the blogging application.Simply put, we found that WordPress dominates the list, that Movable Type comes in with a respectable second [16%], and the rest are either custom jobbies or a smattering of other platforms which are, relatively speaking, eating dust.Probably more inte

Hi,We received some fantastic feedback on iteration 6 last week, but we have a few more iterations to go, so your thoughts and comments are more important to the process now than ever before.You will notice with iteration 7 that we have made some quite drastic changes over the last week ... changes that we feel better serve existing Drupal users AND people new to Drupal.

CCK has been significantly reworked for Drupal 6, both to add new functionality and to provide stronger and code and APIs.

Packt is pleased to announce a new book that helps developers to create, customize and blend images, videos, and audio into their Drupal website. Written by Content Management expert Aaron Winborn, Drupal Multimedia teaches users to integrate multimedia and contribute modules for a Drupal website.Drupal is a free Open Source modular framework and Content Management System (CMS).

Drupal.org will undergo a scheduled maintenance period Friday, Nov. 7th, 02:00 GMT. Barring problems, the maintenance should take about 15-30 minutes.read more

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Drupal_Best_Open_Source_CMS_WINNER';The Drupal Association today announced that Drupal has won two prestigious Packt Publishing 2008 Open Source CMS Awards this week - the Overall 2008 Open Source CMS Award and the Best PHP Open Source CMS. This marks the second consecutive year that Drupal has won Packt Publishing’s Overall Open Source CMS award.

For the second straight year, Packt Publishing has announced Drupal as the recipient of its Overall Open Source CMS Award.  Drupal was also the winner this year in the award category for Best PHP Open Source CMS.Packt’s annual Open Source Content Management System (CMS) Award reached its climax today with the announcement that Drupal has won the Overall category, collecting a first prize of $5,000.

For the third year in a row, Drupal has been nominated for a Packt Publishing Open Source CMS award. Packt Publishing is announcing winners all week. Today they announced the 2008 best PHP open source CMS. The Award for the best Open Source Content Management System written on a PHP/MySQL platform is today announced as Drupal. Receiving $2,000 as the judges’ and publics favourite, Drupal finishes ahead of Joomla!

Drupal was announced the winner in Packt Publishing's 2008 award for Best PHP Based Open Source CMS.The Award for the best Open Source Content Management System written on a PHP/MySQL platform is today announced as Drupal. Receiving $2,000 as the judges’ and publics favourite, Drupal finishes ahead of Joomla! and CMS Made Simple, who finished on equal points as joint runners up and collect $500 each.As Packt notes, this has become an annual tug of war between Drupal and Joomla!

Earlier today, Packt Publishing announced the winners of their 2008 Open Source CMS Most Valued People Award.  The MVP is a new category for Packt's annual Open Source CMS Awards.  In this category, "names were put forward by members of the Content Management System's development team and community and represent the exceptional support, guidance, and sheer amount of time that the MVPs have given up to support the development and growth of the respective CMS". Instead of just copying

This morning Earl Miles, also known as merlinofchaos, was named one of the 2008 Open Source CMS Most Valued People. Earl won specifically for his contributions to the Drupal project.What is particularly exciting about this award is that Earl is the third Drupal community member to win an award for their contributions to the Drupal project this year. Bryan Ruby said it best.What I found interesting is that most of the MVPs for projects were the projects' lead/founder.

You don't need a crazy CSS framework to make multi-column CSS layouts easy. They already *are* easy.If you feel skeptical about my claim, I don't blame you.

CMS Critic posted a good interview of Drupal Founder, Dries Buytaert.  During the past couple months, Dries and a few other open source project leaders have graciously offered to me their time for an interview.  Unfortunately, I've been so busy that I've delayed the interviews until I have the time to do it right.  We were very pleased to have a chance to interview Dries Buytaert, founder of the legendary Drupal content management system.

Download Drupal 6.6Download Drupal 5.12Drupal 6.6 and Drupal 5.12, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as critical security vulnerabilities, are now available for download.Upgrading your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases.

If you update Drupal via cvs by doing the following kind of command (here I am updating a Drupal 6.4 installation to Drupal 6.5):$ cvs update -dP -r DRUPAL-6-5you might run into the following error:...cvs update: Updating scriptscvs update: Updating sitescvs update: Updating sites/allcvs update: Updating sites/defaultP sites/default/default.settings.phpcvs [update aborted]: cannot open .new.oxI8ko: Permission deniedThe update is aborting because the cvs program does not have permission to create

Registration for DrupalCon DC is now open and the DrupalCon DC website live. In the two hours after the first announcement went out via Twitter, 200 people registered to come to DrupalCon! Discount tickets are still available at $175 a ticket - about 200 are left now so move quickly to make sure you get the lowest rate available. Also, there are already 18 sessions submitted and voting has begun - create a profile to vote on sessions and submit your own. read more

Well I've done it!