This week I attended the Drupal for Publishers event that was held at the Sun Microsystems office in central London. As the name suggests, the event was aimed squarely at publishers. I work for the UK's biggest magazine publisher, so I thought I should attend! I was not disappointed.

This is an nice shortish video covering the history of the internet, starting in 1957. It is pretty interesting (if your a geek like me!).

It looks like Google might have done it again with another killer app. Google Wave will be coming out later this year. You can view a preview presentation on the Google Wave website. It is a very long video, but I did manage to watch most of it. It looks like it might just be there best and most innovative product to date (barring Google Search). It might just revolutionise the way we do email.

This snippet will get the filename from the url. The filename is the last part of the URL from the last trailing slash. For example, if the URL is http://www.example.com/dir/file.html then
file.html is the file name.

2Bits has a great piece of advise when it comes to extending Drupal. A very common trap is just keep on adding more and more modules to achieve the required functionality. That is what makes Drupal great but at the same time, too many modules can have a seriously negative effect on a sites performance.

Creating an effective deployment process has historically been a nightmare with Drupal. A deployment process should include pushing content and configuration settings (and code) from dev server to stage server to live server. In many cases, pushing content from live server back to stage server will also be required (to test on the stage server with real life content).

This is a brilliant Friday funny! I am a Sir Alan fan and, even though this is taking the mickey out him, it is absolutely hilarious.

Chrome Experiments is a website which show cases Javascript experiences from a range of different developers. Many are cutting edge, some are just plain cool and a bundle of fun. They certainly show what can be achieved with the wonders of Javascript. Chrome Experiments is a Google website and anyone can submit an experiment.

From time to time a user may not be able to edit a Drupal node and you end up tearing your hair out trying to figure out why. Sometimes the solution is obvious, and sometimes it is not. This post will take you through some of the main reasons for the problem along with suggested solutions.

Wolfram Alpha is a brand new search engine that works in a totally different way to the others. Instead of returning a bunch of websites as results, Wolfram Alpha will actually answer your question (or attempt to). It does not refer you to other websites.