A very insightful and fun presentation that is not boring, from people who really get it: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/soa-without-esb Awesome job! We admire these guys for a reason, indeed.

Really nice and useful tool: http://www.pixelatedsoftware.com/products/pixelstick/ Tools like this one are plenty, but this particular one has a great user-interface. Better than any other free one, I have seen.

Web 1.0: Global reach to content publishing. Web 2.0: Web becomes a two-way publishing avenue: readers contribute content and play central role. Web 3.0: Let’s try make sense of the enormous content published. Smart aggregation becomes key. It looks like the reality in which content aggregation plays equally important role, compared to publishing, is arriving...

Microsoft has recently awarded a $300M account to a star ad-agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky. Bogusky is like a new icon of the Ad industry, having under the belt such successful projects as Mini Cooper campaign, the revival of Burger King brand image and many others. Of course, the hypocrisy of the story is that...

We’ve blogged about hardcore Drupal Form Manipulations using CCK Node Types and hooks. If it is part of your module (as it should) you need to install CCK type during module setup. In the .install file of that module you can import CCK definition with a code like: function ourmodule_CCK_install() { $modulepath = drupal_get_path ('module',...

Some extremely exciting news in the world of Agile and Dynamic languages: Passenger (mod_rails) released and the popular, mass-hosting provider DreamHost is now offering mod_rails hosting. A legendary, rock-solid MediaTemple hosting is now offering Django GridContainers for scalable deployments. The way I am cut-out, I get in physical pain if I don’t have a root...

Via: AgileApproach Blog Drupal Form-Handling support goes far beyond just the documented part of so-called Forms API. You can do pretty much anything with forms in Drupal and you can use/display the forms anywhere. Here is an example. Let’s assume we want to construct a custom node type with custom fields, using CCK. Then we...

Disclaimer: the problem and the solution are not unique to LAMPP. If you have a MYSQL installation with uncommon paths, you will get a similar problem and you can solve it in a similar way. Just make sure you insert correct paths in the newly created .conf file for the LD (see below). If, for...

Very interesting: Twitter is abandoning Ruby on Rails due to claimed scalability problems:\ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/01/twitter-said-to-be-abandoning-ruby-on-rails/

MacBook Air is undoubtedly one of the most revolutionary gadgets released lately. Could even be the most revolutionary one, if not iPhone. Hold! Before you attack my statement about “undoubtedly”, keep in mind - I don’t mean it’s something you should jump on buying. All we mean is that it’s a revolutionary design (with outstanding...

Nice and funny “analysis” of the Internet community on CreateDebate

Some of the blogs I often find to have useful Drupal information (in alphabetical order):

One of the hottest subjects in Web technologies, these days, is finding effective ways to exploit Collective Intelligence of masses. Most everybody has heard of the so-called Web 2.0 and hundreds of different definitions of what it is or is not. In simple terms, Web 2.0 is a phenomena characterized by vastly increased direct participation...

I do usually try to not bash any particular company, in my blog posts. Every so often I may critique somebody and I like to think my criticism is factual and constructive. This time around, though, I will allow myself to go into a full-on ranting and smirking, because the person we are talking about...

It must be an unhappy day in Redmond, today. A heavy-weight like Gartner bashing your main product is no joke for any software development company, not even for Microsoft. As Gartner analyst Michael Silver declares: Microsoft’s Windows juggernaut is collapsing as it tries to support 20 years of applications and becomes more complicated by the...