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.

We're stacking up karma points during this recession: over the weekend more than sixty people gathered at the DERI Institute in Galway, Ireland to talk, learn, and exchange ideas about Drupal.

There are only a few months left before the code freeze on September 1st. Now that Fields API has settled in core, it's time to extend it with some RDF semantics. DERI Galway is hosting an RDF in Drupal code sprint from May 11th until May 14th.

Almost 3 months have passed since Bonnie and her team performed the ultimate party trick: materializing a 1400 people conference out of thin air.

The nominations for the 13th Annual Webby Awards were recently announced, and they include a number of sites built in Drupal! Presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, the Webby Award is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. It’s like the Oscars for websites.

Packt Publishing has announced its first ever Author of the Year award. The award will be given to the author or authors of one book published by Packt in 2008.

Packt is aggressively promoting Drupal by publishing numerous books, and 2008 was clearly a watershed year for Drupal books. Here's a list of Drupal books and authors that are eligible for the award (in the order Packt's search engine returned them):

Digital Dollhouse is a virtual world where girls of all ages are empowered to become their own interior designers.

At DrupalCon DC 2009, an unexpected event happened. While sessions centered on development, writing code, performance, businesses and the community were happening up front, the community of Drupal designers and themers were connecting behind the scenes like never before. It started over Twitter and in small Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions and ended with the designers and themers taking over a room for the last two days of DrupalCon.

I'm looking at a fresh new copy of Drupal 5 Views Recipes. I wrote it, and I'm thrilled to see it in print.

I have a mix of Drupal 5 and Drupal 6 sites out there. If you've got any Drupal 5 sites, consider this book.

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.

When Zappos.com needed a content management system for its ever-growing content, it looked to Drupal after it was showcased at SXSW '08. Zappos.com built its first Drupal site, About.Zappos.com, as a way to test the features, capabilities and development effort of a Drupal site. With that project Drupal successfully showed itself to be both flexible and customizable and therefore a good fit for Zappos. Since then, Drupal has played a larger role at Zappos in a multitude of projects.

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.

Here's the video for the Drupal Multimedia panel at DrupalCon. Presenting were Arthur Foelsche, Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg, and myself.

By the way, the dev version of Embedded Media Field now supports Archive.org. Hopefully the Drupalcon site will install the module so we can see all the videos directly from that site; even if not, I'm sure it won't be long before someone takes advantage of it and posts a DrupalCon wall of Video...

Caveat: The following should be read with the understanding that I absolutely respect and admire the job that the volunteers of the Drupal Security Team do! Without their gallant efforts, Drupal wouldn't be the safe framework that it is.

FYI, I'm planning to do a Dojo session (using DimDim) sometime hopefully early this week around Embedded Media Field, with the following goals:

I spent some time trying to figure out how to make files small enough to put an entire audiobook on my 1GB MP3 player with Rhythmbox. The default CD quality MP3 settings for Rhythmbox made the book too large, so I spent some time figuring out the special GStreamer pipe for sending the audio to lame for lower quality conversion.

In Edit - Preferences - Music, edit the Preferred format. Add a new one named "Voice Quality, MP3". My description is "Target 80 Kbit/s for variable bitrate copies."

François Fillon, French Prime Minister, mentions Drupal in Le Figaro, one of the leading French daily newspapers. Read the article: Fillon est-il un «vrai geek»?. Maybe he has his own Drupal site or will get one soon? (Hat tip: Ineation)

Hi,
I created a CCK with has title, body, and filefeild which captures mp3 file. This is used to make a small audio collection. I want to share this collection with another site where they can search, display, and pay the files insite. What is the best way to do this?

Im trying an rss feed right now. I pulled it in from the other site, but the data output needs formating. I want the mp3 to load in 1pixel player, and want the layout formating to be different. Can RSS feed be formated? Can RSS feeds be loaded into a CCK?

Thanks so much!

I am trying to insert this code into a block to return the current user's username to show in a block

<?php

global $user;
echo $user->uid;
echo $user->name;
?>

I created an input format that had no filters at all, its giving this as the output: id; echo $user->name; ?>

I had read in another post this was they way to return the username but it doesn't seem to be working out.

Thanks for any advice.

I had a few problems connecting my database with Drupal and the guys at my hosting provider did it for me. But when I went to log into Drupal, it said my password and login weren't correct and that it had no record of my email address on file. This is after I had already recieved an email.

So I created a new user but they don't have authorisation to access anything.

Quick question. I've created a View for a site home page that is displaying all event content type content.

However I have an issue and I'm wondering if someone can help/suggestions:

I'm trying to get the CALENDAR link into my View as a field (that variable links to the event Calendar (highlighting the day) dynamically) but the View fields (via Views admin) does not include any event module variables. This is the variable (here as a print function from Contemplate module) I'm looking for:

<?php print $node->links['event_calendar']['href'] ?>

I'm building a site which will allow people to organise events, the group is the event and the posts are the details they may or my not require (location, equipment, accomodation etc).

The idea was that the content type 'Accomodation' for example which in itself is a location node, could be re-used in a new event (group) later on. That way tehre is only one copy of the specific accomodation location to keep up to date.

When a new group is created, there is a link to create Accomodation in the OG Group Details Block but tehre is no link to attach existing accomodation.

Radio Netherlands Worldwide (Radio Nederland Wereldomroep in Dutch or RNW for short) is a public radio and television network based in The Netherlands. Radio Netherlands Worldwide is a very old international public broadcaster, with regular transmissions that began in 1927 to the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia.

I'm converting a site over to Drupal. In the past, if we had a form on our site (say one that users fill in to post data into a (non_drupal) database table or use to pull data such as contact details for different departments) I'd do it with html, javascript (for client side validation) and php (for server side validation and handling the data). Maybe use the PEAR form validation libraries etc.