Drupal 6.0 was released a few days ago and I am very much looking forward to working with it. There are some great usability enhancements that’ll make using the CMS backend a lot easier, and there are many improvements to the API that promise to make module and theme development more productive.

However, until the CCK and Views modules for the new release are ready, it won’t be suitable for developing major sites, so I don’t anticipate migrating to version 6.0 completely for a few months.

If you have a site that’s still on 4.7, though, it’s definitely advisable to make the move to Drupal 5 as soon as possible. Should you need any help with that migration process, let me know.

When you have nothing to say, make a list, as Wittgenstein might have said - had he been a blogger. This particular list is of some of my favourite tools for website development under Windows (XP Pro): some well known, others less so.
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I’m working on a new Facebook application for a client and being a lazy programmer I wanted to do as little work as possible while producing a good result.

I’d started building the app with the Zend Framework but while it is many ways an excellent library it is as yet only a starting point. To build any sort of real-world application with the Zend Framework will require considerable effort, and I was beginning to think this job was going to be a headache.

Imagine my delight, then, at finding Dave Cohen had written a Facebook integration module for my favourite platform, Drupal. Could that solve my development problems? (more…)