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...

Today is a great day for Macintosh users! Magnetk has released ExpanDrive - a tool allowing to mount remote servers as local drives over ssh/sftp. Their press-release promises to add more protocols. I am taking a not-so-wild guess here that S3 will be one of the first protocols to get in. But back to Magnetk....

How to install GIT on OS-X in under 5 minutes: git --version I personally, also like to set: git config --global color.ui "auto"

Fortune Magazine published a great article about the legend, the Steve Jobs:\ http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.fortune/index.htm And while you are at that, checkout today’s iPhone SDK Announcement Video, as well. Some AWESOME announcements!

We are doing it! Drupalcon 2008 Boston Live Check it out at: http://drupalconlive.com

http://sites.google.com/ One word - wow! P.S. In the last years, Google has launched a number of mind-blowing services, built on top of the products from the companies they had acquired, but in most cases - failed miserably to gain user traction. IMHO, one bright example of this is Google Apps (“Google Office”), but examples are...