Join me on the 5th of December at 10am PT for a Webcast about Drupal, hosted by O’Reilly. The title of the webcast ist Everything You Wanted to Know about Drupal but were Afraid to Ask. It will be presented by by Jeff Eaton and James Walker, authors of a new O’Reilly book named Using Drupal.
I hope it will be as interesting as it sounds like and our internet connection will not let us down on that day :)

Initially I wanted to keep this picture MEST internal but now that it has found his way to numerous facebook accounts anyways, I may as well post it here. :) Once again, good job MEST Drupal Team and remember joining the Drupal Group Africa to get into discussion with the other Drupal developers around.

In order to run some test cases on my local Drupal installation I needed to install PHPUnit via PEAR in an XAMPP running on a windows box. This installation guide is for the people who are too lazy to read and for me, so that I don’t have to read it again the next time. :) As a side note: I have an XAMPP 1.6.7 for Windows with PHP Version 5.2.6 running.

Drupal has quite a momentum going and using Drupal in the educational sector is also a hot topic these days. Quite a number of books are published e.g. Using Drupal in Education and the Drupal group Drupal in Education is more active than ever. Some other interesting ideas on this topic can also be found in the article OER’s: Publishing is the Easy Part; Now, Let’s Make Them More Usable.
Although “Drupal in Education” seems to be an interesting topic, more interesting to me right now is how to do good …

I wanted to activate the clean URLs option for the drupal installation that I have in my local XAMPP. The description on the drupal website is pretty good when you have general problems:
Clean URLs
Important for me was actually a part that is at the very end of the description.
If your drupal installation is eg running at http://localhost/drupal, then you have to
modify the RewriteBase entry in the .htaccess file in your drupal directory to this:

RewriteBase /drupal

I am pretty sure I will blog more about drupal in the next future :)