Drupal 7 is coming - hurray! It has reached it's alpha recently. More heavy (2.2Mb) but supposedly more productive and powerful, ad more optimised. It takes on the look of Wordpress, answering a long time of users waiting for the interface improvements. Not that is has the best functionality among the CMS for a variety of web sites, it will also have an elegant look. The release of Drupal 7 has been taking long time to prepare - over a couple of years. It has lots of powerful functionality added to the core, and doubtlessly takes it to the next level. Read more »

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala is in beta! I have been following on Ubuntu and periodically using it for 3 years now. It has become my favorite Linux distro. What does the coming version have? I have prepared my own list of changes, the ones I like or dislike, rather than just copy-pasting the Ubuntu news release at Ubuntu.com. Read more »

Down -2% in September (14% to 12%) http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Have you already checked out the new best theme for Drupal? It's called "AdaptiveTheme", developed by Jeff Burns of http://adaptivethemes.com - check it out!

Some of it's powerful sides are:
1. Immense flexibility.
2. A better new layer of abstraction.
3. Wonderful templating capabilities.
4. A new more extensive theme settings group where you can control both the layout and the columns width.
5. Support of some cool modules, like skinnr. Read more »

Hark, the holy angels sing,
Drupal 7 is coming!
T'will be fully optimized,
Admin panel organized,
Glory, glory unto him,
All webmasters welcome him!

Or something like that. Drupal 7 is coming! And it is bringing in lots of improvements! New admin interface (panel) is gorgeous. Inspired by the one of WordPress. A new optimized core with more powerful custom content type support. Better PHP5 integration. Database handling optimizations. Speed and performance optimizations. Better debugging. Very inspiring! Read more »

Problem: A WordPress worm is circulating, Cnet News reporting, that effects WordPress 2.8.3 and below. The malicious script enters the WordPress through a permalink system, writes itself into the engine folders, and posts spam messages. Once infected, it is hard to find and eliminate.

Solution: As a WordPress user, update to at least 2.8.4 ASAP.

Note: The above described worm is transparent for the Strider's Online Warm Checker.