For those that don't read the development list; there has been considerable discussion recently (following Khaled's PG vs MySQL benchmarks) about improving PG support in drupal 6. I haven't followed the whole discussion in detail (so please correct my if I'm wrong or have missed something), but it seems that for PG support to be sustained and/or improve in drupal6, more PG testers and developers with an interest in PG support are needed.

2010 has been a big year for the Drupal Association. Early in the year new members were brought on and the Board of Directors saw some changes. But most noteworthy is what the Drupal Association did for the Drupal community; Drupal.org Redesign Completion Drupal.org has a new look and feel. If you have not seen it (have you been under a rock!?) go check out Drupal.org right now!

Not sure where this one came from; Censorship is the editing of collective human consiousness

A number of recent events – including a recent interview with Tim Bell, creator of Computer Science Unplugged, and the closure of Hagley School's futuristic College of Computing for the 2009 academic year – have motivated me to want to do something about the lack of interest in CSSE (computer science in the broadest sense) and – in particular – the misperceptions young people have about it. I believe it is these misperceptions that results in the lack of interest.

A number of recent events – including a recent interview with Tim Bell, creator of Computer Science Unplugged, and the closure of Hagley School's futuristic College of Computing for the 2009 academic year – have motivated me to want to do something about the lack of interest in CSSE (computer science in the broadest sense) and – in particular – the misperceptions young people have about it. I believe it is these misperceptions that results in the lack of interest.

I don't like to advertise, but this might save someone $1000 USD: If you've been thinking about coming to New Zealand from the US, now is the time to get tickets. Qantas has specials that have cut flight prices by about 50%. $900-$1000 USD from West Coast USA to AKL, WTN, CHC or Queenstown. Around $1300 USD from East Coast to AKL, WTN, CHC or Queenstown. If you're thinking about going to Drupalcon Sydney in May, it may be cheaper to fly via NZ with those specials.

CivicActions is in Paris, and we are running some great sessions at DrupalCon Paris 2009; Day 2, Wednesday 2 September; How to contribute to Drupal by Stella Power and Bevan Rudge Day 3, Thursday 3 September; Projets Multilingues, multilingual internationlized projects too! by Doug Green and others. Hosting meetups, camps, and virtual classes: building the community that builds Drupal by Stella Power and others. Day 4, Friday 4 September; jQuery for designers and themers by Bevan Rudge.

This article describes briefly what Virtual Machines are, why they are useful, and compares some VM software for Mac OS X: As web developers, it is often our responsibility to ensure that the websites we build are accessible by users of any common web browser and operating system. Since some browsers are only available on a limited selection of OSes, or behave differently on different OSes, it is impossible to be able to test a website on all browsers with one operating system; In order to test websites frequently, we need to have ready access to a variety of operating systems.

Config to Code module for Drupal 5 makes it easy to deploy new views and panels and to version-control changes to existing ones with a source code repository like subversion. It makes it quick and easy to move configured views and panels in the database to code, then safely delete the configured views from the database and finally, expose the views and panels in code back to their respective modules.

I just completed a pass on all of the usability issues created by Marco.RobotAngel for GHOP task #48 and I wanted to say well done Marco! :) The task was to take all of the excellent feedback and suggested solutions in Factory Joe's review and task-ify them or create patches if the solution was simple. This sounds like an easy task, but is in fact very difficult considering the amount of excellent usability feedback Factory Joe gave us.