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A few weeks ago, I put together an April Fool's Day post about a bunch of usability work that Lullabot had been doing with Drupal.

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Bonnier Publications A/S publish magazines in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Holland. All the magazines have websites, some of which are quite significant and have a large amount of traffic and reasonable revenue, while others are simple presentation sites.

In October of 2008, Packt Publishing launched a pilot program called RAW (Read As we Write). In the RAW program, draft versions of each chapter are released as the author writes them. The initial book chosen for the pilot was Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery.Book cover image: http://images.packtpub.com/images/full/1847196160.jpgAt the end of March, Packt sent the finished book to the printers.

Sharon Waxman, a former Hollywood correspondent for The New York Times, has a new Hollywood News site called TheWrap.com. In 2008, Sharon and her team reviewed various content management platforms for the news site and after considering the various available options, decided to use Drupal as their content management platform.In July 2008, Appnovation Technologies was chosen to develop the site.

Every year, CNet goes to the people and asks what the best Web 2.0 applications and services are. The people have spoken, and Drupal has been nominated, along with 299 others. To put Drupal into the coveted top 100, we need you to vote. Voting continues until April 30, so don't wait, vote now.Drupal won in 2007, and again in 2008. Can Drupal win in 2009?

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The Drupal core developers have a long history of making user experience improvements. The developers have made it easier to install, to update, to internationalize, to customize, to theme, to find help, to recover from errors, and to interact. A few years ago, the Drupal project lead, Dries, wrote about The Ockham's Razor Principle of Content Management Systems which statedGiven two functionally equivalent content management systems, the simplest one should be selected.

This has been a long time coming, I do not doubt that there will be more work, but now it is main clean ups. I feel all the functionality is there and really more than anything just needs hammering on.One of the things that I was concentrating on when doing any bug fixes was to start doing them as Test driven development so I would create a test and then from the test fix the issue.

As part of the overall Drupal documentation efforts and the Knight Foundation grant that was awarded this year, I will be conducting a number of short surveys about documentation over the coming year. The first survey, about participation is now up. It is only 5 questions long and should only take a few minutes to complete. The survey will close on Monday, April 13. The results will be posted back to the Documentation group once the survey closes.

We finished crunching the numbers from DrupalCon DC. You can check out all the final figures – including attendance stats and financial numbers – in DrupalCon DC By the Numbers: Community, Profit, and Sustainability posted on the DrupalCon DC website. Give it a read, and please post any feedback or questions you have.read more

The Publius Project is an effort of Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The mission of the Publius Project is to foster public dialogue and create a durable public record on the question of how the Internet should be controlled, and by whom. The project brings together a distinguished collection of Internet observers, scholars, innovators, entrepreneurs, activists, technologists, and other experts to write short essays on this topic.

The more I have come to understand how Drupal works the less code I have had to write to create different types of systems. This is mainly thanks to modules such as CCK, View, Panels, Organic Groups, Ubercart, E-commerce and a couple more. I would wager that with the use of some key modules, a theme and some snippets when necessary Drupal can be used to accomplish just about all that is needed for a web system. Do you agree, please take the Drupal Survey at http://mahalasoft.co.za

Links to all 102 videos were made available on March 13, 2009:d.o - DrupalCon DC 2009 Videosarchive.org - search for drupalcon dcdc2009.drupalcon.org (in the comments of each session)A list of the 9 sessions that were not recorded can be found at:http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/almost-all-session-videos-drupalcon-dc-...If you have of a recording of any of these and/or any BoF sessions, please post them online and let everyone at d.o know.

Separate Security Announcements by TypeTo make the impact of different security advisories and announcements easier to see, they are now separated by type.Drupal core security advisories: http://drupal.org/securityRSS feed for Drupal core: http://drupal.org/security/rss.xmlContributed project security advisories: http://drupal.org/security/contribRSS feed for contributed projects: http://drupal.org/security/contrib/rss.xmlPublic service announcements: http://drupal.org/security/psaRSS feed for

Our users can communicate with one another, which is great, but quite often as an administrator the need may arise for us to communicate with a user or users on our site.

2bits.com: "The intranet used a lot of [Drupal] contributed modules, with 35 custom developed modules for this application. It would serve a user base of more than 80,000 employees.

This is the video which was presented during DrupalCon DC 2009 at the Practical Semantic Web and Why You Should Care session. Below are some details about which technologies were used and how this demo was built, as well its transcript.Yahoo!

Artisteer: "We are happy to announce that Artisteer 2.0 has arrived!

The Swiss Drupal User Group is organizing the Drupal Media Camp with a special focus on the media and Drupal in Aarau, Switzerland.