For those who frequent drupal.org often, the last few weeks have been a nightmare. Sporadic or no access, slow load times, horrible search... and no explanations. Yesterday, some answers were provided, and while they sound plausible enough, one does wonder if Drupal, or for that matter, other Open Source CMSes based on Php/MySql can truly scale.

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Update: Best Open Source CMS Award Nominees
CMSWire, CA - 10 hours ago
Can Joomla! repeat its first place performance from 2006 or will Drupal overcome the single point that kept it out of the top spot? ...

Update: Best Open Source CMS Award Nominees
CMSWire, CA - 11 hours ago
Can Joomla! repeat its first place performance from 2006 or will Drupal overcome the single point that kept it out of the top spot? ...

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The indispensable Drupal book

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Roel De Meester preparing for a corporate Drupal training session we'll be giving later this week in Brussels

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A killer combination

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Roel De Meester, preparing a corporate Drupal training session with me

Great resource if you are thinking about swapping

"We envision a world of justice, peace, and freedom". Thus starts the vision for FORpeace. FOR Peace.net is a recent Bryght Light site which is in its early days but already is compelling and moving.

One story that is particularly poignant is Our Way Home Reunion about a recent gathering and reunion of Vietnam resisters and Iraq war veterans in Nelson, British Columbia aka "Resisterville" .

The person behind this site is ForPeace Community Co-coordinator Ruby Sinreich who is bootstrapping ForPeace's online Web 2.0 presence with this Drupal site, as well as a Second Life presence and instant messaging.

She says: "The best thing about our site is that we have opened up a dynamic channel for telling our stories and making connections. A number of my colleagues have already make their first blog entries including our Executive Director"!

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"About a week ago the new Drupal Pro book started shipping, and today, the book cracked the Amazon Top 100. And we're not talking about the top 100 computer books here, we're talking about the top 100 bestsellers."

Drupal is a major LAMP portal/CMS system. This blog post introduces a code hack that can improve Drupal's scalability in a major way

WorldChangingNext Billion Customers? Intel's Already a World Ahead
WorldChanging - 8 hours ago
With this in mind, the Drupal folks at Development Seed are working on an easily adaptable software package for schools and hospitals in BOP communities. ...

WorldChangingNext Billion Customers? Intel's Already a World Ahead
WorldChanging - 1 hour ago
With this in mind, the Drupal folks at Development Seed are working on an easily adaptable software package for schools and hospitals in BOP communities. ...

DrupalEd offers a pre-configured site that supports blogging, podcasting, social networking, social bookmarking, and all the other usual Web 2.0 suspects. The site is configured for educational use, but it will work equally well in any situation that requires collaborative work; ie, as a web accessible intranet.

Simple script you can stick in a .sh file to download drupal modules, extract them and remove the excess file quicklyVery handy

BlogBackupOnline, A free blog backup service allow you to backup your blog from unexpected situation. It supports popular blogging system such as b2evolution, Blogger, Drupal, Livejournal, Movable Type, Serendipity, Microsoft Live Spaces, Wordpress (your own domain), and wordpress.com. It offers 50MB of free space

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第九款drupal的theme，目前还比较满意

Layout of our site at Drupal 4.7
GAIA - Grupo de Acção e Intervenção Ambiental, Portugal - 3 hours ago
Better for the stupid users would be, that they post an event, instead of posting a drupal page, with the type of event. You think it makes no difference? ...

Layout of our site at Drupal 4.7
GAIA - Grupo de Acção e Intervenção Ambiental, Portugal - 44 minutes ago
Better for the stupid users would be, that they post an event, instead of posting a drupal page, with the type of event. You think it makes no difference? ...