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div style='float:right; margin:10px;' a href=http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515805/index.htmlimg src=http://drupal.org/files/using_drupal_cover.gif alt=Using Drupal height=200 //a /div pa href=http://www.lullabot.com/Team Lullabot/a is emreally/em excited to unveil O'Reilly Media's first Drupal book, a href=http://www.usingdrupal.com/Using Drupal/a, due out next month. (BTW, that's a dormouse on the cover. :)) The book is written against Drupal 6./p pOur 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? emUsing Drupal/em is all about answering this question. It shows in a practical, hands-on way how to combine over thirty of Drupal's contributed modules to build Drupal websites that can do things ranging from product reviews to event management to e-commerce, all through configuration with as little coding as possible. You can also think of it as a field guide to CCK and Views, since almost all chapters build on those base modules./p pa href=http://drupal.org/node/333901read more/a/p

pCCK has been significantly reworked for Drupal 6, both to add new functionality and to provide stronger code and APIs. We've tried to respond to many of the things that were often requested but were difficult or impossible to do in the Drupal 5 version: streamline the process of creating fields, use drag-n-drop to reorganize fields and values, provide a user-friendly 'Add more' button for multiple values, give developers an API and more tools to customize CCK behavior, and provide more documentation. /p pMany of the things you see in the latest code would not have been possible without all the new Drupal 6 and Views 2 features. Drupal 6, CCK 2 and Views 2 make a great combination!/p h3CCK Links/h3 ul li a href=http://drupal.org/project/cckProject page/a/li li a href=http://drupal.org/node/330573CCK 6.x-2.0 release notes/a (people upgrading from previous RCs should read this)./li li strikeDownload CCK 6.x-2.0/strike - Fresh from the maintainers: a href=http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/cck-6.x-2.1.tar.gz6.x-2.1 bugfix release/a/li /ul pstrongImportant:/strong This release fixes a (minor) security issue that was present in the previous RC releases.br / See a href=http://drupal.org/node/330546the Security Annoucement/a for more informations./p pa href=http://drupal.org/node/329969read more/a/p

pa href=http://www.packtpub.com/create-multimedia-website-with-drupal/book/mid/300608sz1cqjimg src=/files/images/book-cover.thumbnail.jpg align=right //a/p pA year after answering Dries Buytaert's a href=http://buytaert.net/wanted-drupal-book-authors#comment-2536call for Drupal book authors/a, Aaron Winborn is pleased to announce the publication of a href=http://www.packtpub.com/create-multimedia-website-with-drupal/book/mid/300608sz1cqjDrupal Multimedia/a, which is now available! Packt Publishing, known for their support of Open Source projects, will donate a portion of the book's royalties to the a href=http://association.drupal.org/Drupal Association/a./p pThe book teaches the best practices and contributed modules for integrating Images, Video, and Audio into your site. Written for Drupal 6, the book assumes you are a developer, themer, or administrator who needs to embed multimedia. It makes heavy use of a href=http://drupal.org/project/cckContent Construction Kit (CCK)/a and a href=http://drupal.org/project/viewsViews 2/a, and offers demonstrations of the various modules required for the task./p pThe book helps to answer common questions, such as when to use a href=/project/imageImage/a or a href=/project/imagefieldImageField/a, how to leverage the power of a href=/project/filefieldFileField/a, and how to override theme functions to display multimedia content the way we need it./p pa href=http://drupal.org/node/329545read more/a/p

div style=float:left; margin-right:1.5em; script digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Drupal_Best_Open_Source_CMS_WINNER'; /scriptscript src=http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js/script/div pa href=http://www.packtpub.com/article/2008-open-source-cms-award-winner-announcedimg src=/files/overall-winners-logo.png style=margin: 1em 0pt 0pt 1em; float:right;/a/p pThe a href=http://association.drupal.orgDrupal Association/a today announced that Drupal has won two prestigious a href=http://www.packtpub.com/article/2008-open-source-cms-award-winner-announcedPackt Publishing 2008 Open Source CMS Awards/a 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. In addition, on Monday, Packt Publishing recognized leading Drupal contributor Earl Miles as a 2008 Open Source CMS Most Valued Person (MVP)./p pa href=http://drupal.org/Drupal-Wins-Best-Overall-2008-Open-Source-CMS-Award-Packtread more/a/p

pa href=http://www.packtpub.com/article/2008-best-php-open-source-cms-drupalimg src=/files/best-php-winners-logo.png style=margin: 1em 0pt 0pt 1em; float:right;/a/p pFor 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. /p blockquotepThe 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./p/blockquote pDrupal won this award in both the popular vote and the judges selection. The judges cited improvements to installation, updates, breadth of features in modules, and how Drupal handles errors in these processes. Of special note was Drupal's use of social features and how those features integrate with web content management. Of course the final advantage Drupal had was the large and hugely supportive community. This award belongs to everyone in the Drupal community for helping each other and particularly new users./p pa href=http://drupal.org/2008-best-php-open-source-cms-award-packtpubread more/a/p

pimg src=http://drupal.org/files/earl-headshot2.jpg style=margin: 1em 0pt 0pt 1em; float:right;br / This morning Earl Miles, also known as a href=http://drupal.org/user/26979/track/codemerlinofchaos/a, was named one of the a href=http://www.packtpub.com/article/open-source-cms-most-valued-people-announced2008 Open Source CMS Most Valued People/a. Earl won specifically for his contributions to the Drupal project./p pWhat 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./p blockquotepWhat I found interesting is that most of the MVPs for projects were the projects' lead/founder. Perhaps that says something about Drupal truly being community driven./p/blockquote pPlease congratulate Earl on a well deserved award for his contributions and leadership to the Drupal project. You can read Earl's a href=http://www.angrydonuts.com/i-was-voted-packt-publishing-drupal-most-valuable-playerresponse/a on his blog Angry Donuts./p

div style=float: right; padding: 0.8em; background-color: #0174BB; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0 0 0.3em 0.3em; text-align: center;a href=http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-6.6.tar.gz style=color: white; text-decoration: underline; line-height: 1.5em;Download Drupal 6.6/abr /a href=http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-5.12.tar.gz style=color: white; text-decoration: underline; line-height: 1.5em;Download Drupal 5.12/a/div p style=position: inherit;Drupal 6.6 and Drupal 5.12, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as strongcritical security vulnerabilities/strong, are now available for download./p p style=position: inherit;stronga href=/upgrade/Upgrading/a your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites is strongly recommended./strong There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 6.x release series, consult the a href=http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0Drupal 6.0 release announcement/a, more information on the 5.x releases can be found in a href=http://drupal.org/drupal-5.0Drupal 5.0 release announcement/a./p pa href=http://drupal.org/drupal-6.6read more/a/p

pRegistration for DrupalCon DC is now open and the a href=http://dc2009.drupalcon.orgDrupalCon DC website/a live. In the two hours after the first announcement went out via Twitter, 200 people registered to come to DrupalCon! Discount a href=http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/tickets tickets are still available/a 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 a href=http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/sessionssessions submitted/a and voting has begun - create a profile to vote on sessions and submit your own. /p pcenterbr / a href=http://dc2009.drupalcon.org title=Registration now open for DrupalCon Washington DC, March 4 - 7 2009 by DevelopmentSeed, on Flickrimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3294/2961615651_51ba86c25e.jpg width=375 height=500 alt=Registration now open for DrupalCon Washington DC, March 4 - 7 2009 //abr / /center/p pa href=http://drupal.org/node/324335read more/a/p

pThree and a half months ago, Views, along with CCK and OG were made available as a release candidates. Today, I've finally come to the conclusion that the remaining bugs are minor enough to go ahead with an official, formal release of Views 2, and we can finally say that this module is now out and available. Yes, it actually beat Panels 2 to final release!/p pIf you've never tried Views 2, or are hesitating about Drupal 6, this new release of Views is a very good reason to consider making the transition, especially in your new sites./p pThe Views module has undergone extensive development, refactoring, and testing. Views 2 improves the existing functionality of the Views module, and adds new features designed to simplify life for developers, site admins, themers, and end users alike./p pPossibly the most important change is that Views can now create lists of anything: nodes, users, taxonomy -- you name it! Another large change you'll notice right off the bat is that the UI for Views has completely changed, and is full of JavaScripty goodness. While it may take some getting used to initially, we're confident that you'll find that the changes ultimately make creating views much easier than before./p pa href=http://drupal.org/node/322837read more/a/p

pAs of today, October 16 2008, everyone with a user account on Drupal.org is able to edit most handbook pages (details are noted below). All users can already create new pages in the handbooks so this expands on that to allow editing of pages other than those you created. In the past this has been permitted only for members of the documentation team or site maintainers./p div style=width:90% img src=/files/thumbs_up_2.jpg style=float:left; width:80px; height:80px; margin:0em 2em 0em 1.5em /This new permission is currently set to last for a emtrial period of one month/em. At the end of the period, on November 15 2008, the documentation team and site maintainers will assess if the trial has been successful and make a decision whether to continue to allow open editing. If the change causes too much spam or vandalism in the handbook, then we will be forced to revoke open editing. If we are unsure, we may decide to extend the trial period in one month increments until we can firmly make a decision one way or the other. /div pa href=http://drupal.org/node/321601read more/a/p

div style=float:left; width:100%; clear:both a href=http://twitter.com/drupalcon/ title=DrupalCon Is Coming to Washington, DC March 4-7, 2009: Only $125 for First 100 Developers by DevelopmentSeed, on Flickrimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3238/2945342392_f60d048070_o.png style=float:left; margin:1em 1em 0 0 alt=DrupalCon Is Coming to Washington, DC March 4-7, 2009: Only $125 for First 100 Developers //a/p pDrupalCon is THE conference for Drupal developers, and it's coming to Washington, DC, March 4 – 7, 2009! For those new to the DrupalCons, this is a huge unconference for developers. It's a time for us to get together, learn from each other, trade ideas, make decisions, and build a stronger community. /p pThere will be a special early bird rate of $125 per ticket for the first 100 people who register. Tickets won't go on sale until next week, but we wanted to give everyone a heads up so they can be on the lookout. strongWe'll announce when DrupalCon DC registration goes live via Twitter, and will let followers get a two-hour head start before we get the word out elsewhere/strong. So, follow us: a href=http://twitter.com/drupalcon title=http://twitter.com/drupalconhttp://twitter.com/drupalcon/a./p pSee you in Washington, DC in March! /div

pThe a href=http://www.manning.com/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=1050Manning Publications Company/a recently announced two new books about Drupal. Manning is a well known publisher of many high quality technical books and the popular in Action series. Their decision to release two books about Drupal highlights the growth of interest in the Drupal platform. Manning's decision to work with established members of the Drupal community and also donate a portion of sales to the Drupal Association shows their desire to be a responsible member of the Drupal world./p pa href=http://drupal.org/node/321167read more/a/p

pFor the past few years the Drupal Documentation Team has been led by a href=http://drupal.org/user/5195 rel=nofollowSteven Peck/a (sepeck). Steven was the second person to take on this role (Charlie Lowe was the first), and he has done a great job. Not only has he grown the a href=http://drupal.org/contribute/documentation rel=nofollowdocumentation team/a to include a lot of talented and hard-working volunteer writers, he has overseen the restructuring and reorganization of a href=http://drupal.org/handbooks rel=nofollowDrupal.org's documentation handbooks/a, greatly improving their structure and accessibility. Thank you Steven for the great work!/p pLike so many Drupal contributors, Steven works on Drupal completely as a volunteer. His day job has been demanding a lot of time lately, and he has decided to step down from being the Documentation Team Leader. That means it is time to pass the torch to the next person who can then sprint with it for a while./p pOne great thing about the Drupal community is seeing people grow into new roles and take more responsibility upon themselves. This is certainly the case for a href=http://drupal.org/user/65088 rel=nofollowAddison Berry/a (add1sun), who in her two years working with Drupal has become involved with virtually every aspect of the Drupal project. Lately Addi has been more and more active with the documentation team, making her a clear choice in my mind to carry on where Steven left off. I'm therefore very happy to announce that Addison Berry, aka add1sun, is the new documentation team leader, effective immediately./p pa href=http://drupal.org/node/319692read more/a/p

div style=float: right; padding: 0.8em; background-color: #0174BB; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0 0 0.3em 0.3em; text-align: center;a href=http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-6.5.tar.gz style=color: white; text-decoration: underline; line-height: 1.5em;Download Drupal 6.5/abr /a href=http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-5.11.tar.gz style=color: white; text-decoration: underline; line-height: 1.5em;Download Drupal 5.11/a/div p style=position: inherit;Drupal 6.5 and Drupal 5.11, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as strongcritical security vulnerabilities/strong, are now available for download./p p style=position: inherit;stronga href=/upgrade/Upgrading/a your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites is strongly recommended./strong There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 6.x release series, consult the a href=http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0Drupal 6.0 release announcement/a, more information on the 5.x releases can be found in a href=http://drupal.org/drupal-5.0Drupal 5.0 release announcement/a./p pa href=http://drupal.org/drupal-6.5read more/a/p

pa target=_blank title=Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery book href=http://www.packtpub.com/drupal-6-javascript-and-jquery/bookimg title=Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery book src=http://images.packtpub.com/images/100x123/1847196160.png alt=Packt#039;s RAW Program vspace=0 width=100 align=left border=1 height=123 hspace=4 //aPackt has today announced details of Matt Butcher’s new a target=_blank title=Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery book href=http://www.packtpub.com/drupal-6-javascript-and-jquery/bookDrupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery book/a, which is scheduled for release in December. The book is being released as Packt’s first RAW (Read as we Write) book, which are designed as the most immediate and cutting-edge way to buy a Packt book. Generally available 4-6 months before the book is published, buying a RAW book gives you the opportunity to gain immediate access to content and share in the editorial process of producing a book./p pA RAW version of a Packt book is just that; an unedited and unpolished version of the final product. As soon as the author has written a new chapter, Packt will add it to the eBook and notify customers who can download it immediately./p pa href=http://drupal.org/node/312303read more/a/p

pa href=http://www.amazee.com/ target=_blankimg src=http://drupal.org/files/Amazee_logo.jpg align=right alt=Amazee logo //aOn September 17, 2008 a href=http://www.amazee.com/ target=_blankAmazee/a released a fully redesigned version of its social collaboration platform. We made this case study for all Drupal developers interested in how the site is being built and what the challenges have been so far./p h2What is Amazee/h2 pAmazee is a platform that channels any kind of activism and provides powerful tools to help project initiators organize, promote, and fund projects of any size with participants from anywhere around the world./p pWhether the goal is to assemble a multinational football team or set up a massive number of broadband connections in remote towns in Africa, Amazee is easy to use for any kind of project./p pa href=http://drupal.org/node/317253read more/a/p

pa target=_blank href=http://www.leadel.netimg class=picture src=http://drupal.org/files/homepage300.jpg //aa href=http://www.leadel.netLEADEL.NET/a is a video portal and social network, funded by the European Jewish Congress, which revolves around the elements that make social, technological, political and financial leaders tick and thereby encouraging Leadel's viewers to explore what makes them do what they do.The site focuses on Jewish identity and tries to explore the differences which make us as identity bearing human beings unique.br / The path LEADEL have taken in inspiring the perseverance of that identity, is to create a website which will appeal to young people and will adhere to their standards of quality, user experience and ease of use./p pThis was a great chance to take the a href=http://www.drupal.org/project/servicesservices module/a further then we (at a href=http://www.linnovate.netlinnovate/a) have ever done before.br / We ended up writing 16 custom services and using drupal to organize the site's information and flash as a front end, this combination seems to be the best of both worlds./p pa href=http://drupal.org/node/311770read more/a/p

pstrongAbout Student Activities at Texas Aamp;M University/strong/p pimg src=http://drupal.org/files/StuActOnline-Homepage-Small.jpg align=right hspace=5 vspace=5 /The a href=http://studentactivities.tamu.edu/Department of Student Activities/a at a href=http://www.tamu.edu/Texas Aamp;M University/a is responsible for overseeing the annual recognition process of the 850+ student organizations on the College Station, TX campus. The department also advises several large organizations directly and offers leadership and involvement opportunities to the entire student body. Many of the most popular traditions on campus are heavily supported by the department, including a href=http://fishcamp.tamu.edu/Fish Camp/a (an extended orientation program attended by over 5,000 freshmen a year) and a href=http://bigevent.tamu.edu/The Big Event/a (a one-day service project in which 10,000 students complete over 1,000 community service tasks in the city and surrounding areas)./p pstrongHistory of Student Organization Web Hosting/strong/p pa href=http://drupal.org/node/314624read more/a/p

pAfter months of hard work, a href=http://acquia.com rel=nofollowAcquia/a is now open for business! Starting today, everyone can connect their Drupal 6 site to the Acquia Network to take advantage of our services. Oh my!/p pThe a href=http://acquia.com/products-services/acquia-network rel=nofollowAcquia Network/a (previously code-named Spokes) is a hosted service that helps you with site management (update notifications, spam blocking, cron service, modification detection, etc) and provides real-time visibility into the health and usage of all your Drupal sites that are connected to the Acquia Network. /p pSecond, the Acquia Network gives you access to a href=http://acquia.com/products-services/drupal-technical-support rel=nofollowAcquia's technical support team/a. Whether it is an installation question, a development question or a configuration question, our Drupal experts are ready to provide you with technical support. The kicker? Acquia Network subscriptions are a href=https://acquia.com/product-matrix rel=nofollowavailable for every budget/a -- including a free community version. Give it a try!/p pThird, we are also releasing a href=http://acquia.com/products-services/acquia-drupal rel=nofollowAcquia Drupal/a today. Acquia Drupal (previously code-named Carbon) is our Drupal distribution that bundles some of the best, most essential Drupal modules for building social publishing sites. Acquia Drupal is available for free, and a href=http://acquia.com/blog/kieran/talk-silver-code-gold-acquias-code-contributions-drupal-project rel=nofollowall our bug fixes and improvements go straight to the module maintainers on drupal.org/a. Acquia Drupal defines the collection of modules that you can get technical support for./p pa href=http://drupal.org/node/315151read more/a/p

pa href=http://groups.drupal.org/knight-drupal-initiative rel=nofollowThe Knight Drupal Initiative/a which funds new and existing Drupal projects. The next monthly review meeting takes place on Thursday, 2 October 2008 at 15:00 EDT (19:00 UTC). The meeting will be held in IRC #drupal-dojo on irc.freenode.net. (See a href=http://drupal.org/irc title=http://drupal.org/irc rel=nofollowhttp://drupal.org/irc/a for information about using IRC.) We will meet for an hour and a half to review current proposals, discuss the application process and introduce new proposals to the community./p pCommunity members are encouraged to a href=http://groups.drupal.org/node/11798 rel=nofollowreview and comment/a on the existing proposals before the meeting./p pa href=http://drupal.org/node/314845read more/a/p