My favourite piece of open source CMS software has added another significant scalp, with http://www.whitehouse.gov making the switch to Drupal.
The move has been orchestrated by Dries himself, through Aquia, along with some third party contractors based in the US. (More details and specifics are available via techPresident).
Much is being made of the Obama administration, or at least some aspect of it, making the “open source choice”. With a foot in each camp (both the closed and open source worlds), I have to wonder if the move is significant and, in …

As the “tech” side of the blog is heating up, and there is a good chance that there will be a lot of Drupal posts over the coming months, I thought it would be worthwhile linking to this really cool video from Ping Vision
What is Drupal? … in 57 seconds | pingVision.
They definitely explain Drupal faster than I can, and it is a lovely example of some kinetic typography at the same time.

I’m a big fan of portable applications and quick-to-install development environments.
With the range of things that it is possible to do with Drupal, the Acquia Stack Installer aka DAMP is a big step towards a new breed of installable Drupal/Acquia based intranet applications.
Viva!

Ever wondered how to find your facebook status RSS feed, especially with the new facebook? Search no more. Andy Walters explains how it’s done, and even shows you how to integrate it with Drupal.

Moving this site from Drupal 4.x to Wordpress 2.7, I was obviously concerned with losing indexation of my old Drupal URLs from search engines.
As I had not set up clean URLs on my Drupal website for a lot of my content, I needed a quick and easy way of ensuring that any traffic destined for one of my Drupal pages firstly found it’s way to the original content (as not everything has moved over to the new site) and secondly informed my users that the site had been moved.
Enter the …