"Just because the blog has been deserted doesn’t mean nothing is happening. About 3 weeks ago, I got myself into a position where I can resume the 2.0 development cycle. Not only that, I’m starting to get to enjoy all the work I did in the beginning of cleaning up and moving code around to make a more consistent API. New features are falling into place pretty quickly and I’m making some rapid progress."

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"DotNetNuke 4.4 introduced a number of performance enhancements. Many of these enhancements required the creation of new overloads of some common methods and deprecation of the existing methods.

It is important for module developers, who wish their modules to take advantage of the new performance features to update their modules for performance."

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4 Problems with Drupal

Drupal is an open source CMS. It it used by many big-name websites, like The Onion and the Mozilla Foundation’s Get Firefox campaign. However, it suffers from a few serious problems which make it extremely difficult to adapt to large, complex sites. If you’re looking to deploy something like a social network using Drupal then this article is definitely worth your read. Even if you’re not, these are facts any developer or admin should know about the software they might be using.  Read More...

I am new to Drupal publishing, and I noticed your "Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Google Yahoo Technorati Icerocket " feature. How did you code that? Or- where could I find out how to do that? I have searched Drupal.org but find it frustrating to search, and searching for modules is so frustrating I gave up. Scrolling through the categories is about the best I could do. I found the Submit to Digg one- but your system seems so much more simple.

hi - right after I wrote my note I looked at your code a little harder and figured it out! sorry for the bother!

As I have mentioned in the past, besides this site I also run WebCMS Forum. The forum is a place I started in hopes of bringing users of various content management systems (CMS) together for exciting discussion. While the number of users participating in actual dicussion have always been low, those people that are posting often write something that makes hosting this underused forum well worth my time.

This week I had a user, Anti, talk about frustrations with rapid changes currently happening with the content management system, Drupal. Don't get her wrong, she likes Drupal. However, for the first time in a long while, she is in need of taking a deep breath before absorbing all the new changes into her routine. At the forum she writes:

It seems like such a short time ago, in reality maybe six months or so, that I felt I at least had a finger on the pulse of Drupal. I knew where each off the settings were and was never intimidated by the concept of taxonomy and I was happy as can be. While none of that has really changed, I can still install and configure a Drupal site in record time, I am sometimes completely overwhelmed by the explosion of new ideas I find on Drupal.org. It is all very exciting but after watching this thing for a couple of years I suddenly feel out of sorts. Things really do seem to be happening right now.

While the above post is specifically focused on Drupal, it is not a stretch for me to say that about every user of information technology (IT) has felt overwhelmed when rapid changes take place with the products they are using. These changes take place in the name of innovation. These changes bring features in a product that promise to make our life easier. And if the changes don't make our life easier, the changes still appear to be necessary to get the product in the direction it needs to go. As IT professionals we understand the need for progress, but this understanding doesn't really address the impact the new demands have on our users.

"It's been exactly one month since we released Drupal 4.7.0, and exactly three months until the next code and feature freeze. You might think that, since Drupal 4.7.0 was only recently released, we've been enjoying cocktails and other carnal delights on exotic beaches. Quite the contrary, in fact, and so it is time to provide a quick overview of the completed developments. Read on for more information."

ComputerWorld has a FAQ to why an open-source Java would be good for software development. Considering Java is considered the most popular programming language among developers such a move by Sun would be welcomed news.

What's the big deal? Isn't the source code for Java already available? Yes, the source code for Java has been available for years via the SCSL and JRL license programs, but a true open-source release would make it possible for developers to innovate more freely with Java, with less involvement from Sun and fewer licensing restrictions on distribution. Sun, while making periodic noises about the possibility of open-sourcing Java, has resisted this move, until now. More at ComputerWorld.com

By the way, open-source fans may be interested to hear that PHP is ranked the fourth most popular programming language (with C and C++ ranked second and third). See the TIOBE Programming Community Index for additional listings of program languages ranked by popularity.