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It really feels like Drupal is accelerating in the marketplace lately. You can help keep it keep it going by voting for / nominating Drupal in important industry awards. Here are a couple that need action from you today.
Drupal is running as a finalist in five categories for the Sourceforge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards. VOTING ENDS TOMORROW!
Drupal is also in the nomination stage for the Packt Publishing Open Source Content Management System Awards, an award Drupal won last year. You can nominate Drupal in several categories here. Nomination is the first step to winning. Do it now.
Oleg Terenchuk (litwol) is now developing the JavaScript Theming module. The five second elevator spiel: this will move theming from the server to the client.
The longer explanation is a bit more exciting. This module plans to abstract the core of Drupal theming into a javascript layer. This will allow a JSON feed to pass raw data to a browser to be formatted on the fly for display.
The implications are astounding, and I'm still wrapping my brain around the possibilities. For one, it could mean super fast in place load times, because Drupal doesn't have to mess around with passing everything around the theming system. An AJAX request could just ask for the data, Drupal sends it, and jQuery will format your list, table, teaser, or what have you. In its second day of life, it already works with messages (and item lists, I believe).
A potential problem I see might be that slower computers would see slower rendering times. But this is already happening with some jQuery-heavy sites anyway. The benefit would be most seen with faster hardware, but this is always true with cutting-edge technology. Everyone else will catch up soon enough.
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After one of the Drupal workshop sessions, some of the attendees participated in a historical walkabout hosted by the Providence Historical Society.
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After one of the Drupal workshop sessions, some of the attendees participated in a historical walkabout hosted by the Providence Historical Society. Tim Hortons is a Canadian fixture (Canada's version of Starbucks) and I was surprised to see one this deep into the US.
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motionblur posted a photo:
After one of the Drupal workshop sessions, some of the attendees participated in a historical walkabout hosted by the Providence Historical Society.
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Blog post comign soon, but here is the module: drupal.org/project/spaces
DevelopmentSeed posted a photo:
here is an example of Drupal's Spaces moudle in action. Check out drupal.org/project/spaces... blog post coming soon.
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The Nevada Solar One website went live in Spring of 2008. It was built in Drupal.
bivingsgroup posted a photo:
The National Association of State Foresters went up in the Spring of 2008. It was built in Drupal.