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Happy Birthday Dries!  Have a peice of virtual cake, and enjoy your birthday!

I came accross this today on Angie’s blog, and had to share!

I would love to see a series of blog posts from Drupal developers on patch review strategies they employ, so we can share some tips and tricks and ramp up our collective review IQs. I’ll start it off with mine. I call it “The 6-Pass Patch Review” (wittier names welcome! ;))

Read the rest of Drupal Core Diaries: The 6-pass patch review @ webchick.net!

It’s something I’m asked every now and then. “If I’m just making a blog site, should I just use WordPress, or should I still use Drupal?” To be fair, it all comes down in the end to a matter of personal taste. But, there are still some factual points on either side of the Drupal Blog vs. WordPress Blog argument.

Firstly, some reasons to use Drupal for your blog:

• You can easily add more advanced features and modules.
• It’s (debatably) easier to theme

For me, the pros of Wordpress outweigh any cons; in the end it comes down to being easier to upgrade when a new release comes out.  But, if Drupal had one-click upgrade as well, I’d be using that instead in a shot.

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The Drupal redesign is continuing, and an interesting concept for the “Drupal Planet” has been released.  Called Drupal Digest, this new site created by Wim Mostrey uses a digg-style of article presentation.  

Wim also made a great article recently called “Five resources to score a Drupal freelance job”.  It’s a great read, and was apparently inspired by my prior blog post “Looking for Work“.

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Now, I’m not saying that other tools don’t have this active of a community; but the mix just feels “right” with Drupal.  Dave’s post on upgrading Drupal Core With Vendor Branches and svn_load_dirs is a perfect example of this; someone who solves a problem sharing their results for the benefit of others.  The ideal of open source

There is also a great little advice snippet that I’ll be testing out sometime soon: Mikkel Høgh’s post on Drupal and Varnish (more on Varnish).  My ponder?  Just how much bang for buck can you squeeze out of a $7/mth VPS?  Since I already have a cheap VPS, I’m going to give it a try

Lastly, as a public service warning to all Drupal Planet readers.  DO NOT FEED THE TROLL.

See you around!

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So, yeah, I’m a bit behind in posts  Thankfully, there is a treasure trove of Drupal news just waiting to be explored!

First off, YUI is starting to make some in-roads in Drupal, the latest of which being Nick Lewis’ post on the YUI Editor module.  YUI also has an amazing base library of tiny CSS tools, such as the Grids CSS file, that offers extreamly simple cross-browser layout creation.  Additionally, YUI CSS is released under the modified BSD license, which is GPL compatiable.

Creating video-enabled sites with Drupal is a topic that seems to pop up over and over in the Planet.  Another great post with a more high-level look at handling rich media up on Learn by the Drop.

Rancity Studios has a post up about their provisioning system, Ægir.  While looked over the documentation it appears to be this system only worked for the older Drupal 5, and not for Drupal 6.  I wans’t able to find much more clairity on that, but it’s completely possible there is a Drupal 6 version no available on cvs.drupal.org repositories.

Drupal Camps Everywhere may now have an official logo to litter, er…I mean post all over town .  

There are also some tips for Drupal Camp organizers up on the Association website.  Opening a jobs table can apparently offset the expenses, nice.

Great strides are being made in Drupal patch testing.  I can’t wait to see QA playing an even greater role in Drupal’s future.  Just how different will Drupal 7 be from Drupal 6, given all the testing happening now?

Lastly, Acquia is out of beta.  The news is a bit old at this point, but definately worth mentioning anyways!  WebDevNews has a review as well.

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GMking.org’s Game Development wiki service, GMpedia.org, has finally reached its 600th article milestone! Our 600th article was the “temp_directory” article, which discusses the temp_directory global variable in Game Maker.

We’re really glad to having reached such article count, which indeed makes GMpedia.org one of the most comprehensive game development and Game Maker wikis out there (not simply taking into account an article count, but also the nature and length of the articles available).

Read the rest at GMking’s Blog

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