I just finished reading this $40 waste of paper. I really can't express how extremely disappointed I am with this book. It seems like some people got together and said, 'Hey, let's get together and make some quick money by copying and pasting some drupal.org project and handbook pages into a book.

Here is a quick tip for setting phpMyAdmin to show more rows by default.  

There seems to be a natural progression in a Drupal administrator's experience. First, he or she will just manage to get the thing installed and working. Then, they will start using contributed modules and even go so far as to use the custom features available in those, especially CCK and Views. Next, he or she will start playing around with theming in order to get the look they want. Finally, it is time to write your own custom module. Here is a brief and easy way to make a Drupal module. Further steps are found in Pro Drupal Development

 Contrary to what you might think, making a menu item/link a popup link is no easy matter in Drupal. However, it's not too difficult either. Below I will show you the way to make your links be popups in Drupal 6. If you want to do this in Drupal 5 then please see here: http://www.nowarninglabel.com/home/make-a-tab-a-popup-drupal-5

 This post is going to be part of a series of my experiences (and our sysadmin's) of implementing Drupal in a high availability environment. Setting things up turned out to be a bit of a challenge and I hope this walk-through on setting up Drupal in a high availability MySQL cluster will be helpful to others who wish to use the same process.

Just wanted to share another way you can help

Whirlwind Wheelchair helps Haiti

SF State's Whirlwind Wheelchair program is preparing to send rugged wheelchairs to earthquake survivors in Haiti. The chairs will assist thousands of people injured in the quake who now have lasting mobility impairments.

 Drupal Gardens announced their official beta today, which is a bit ahead of schedule. Fortunately, I received an invite and can't wait to do some further playing around in Gardens. The alpha test was already pretty smooth, and quite pretty, so will enjoy seeing if the quirks from alpha have been taken care of in beta. Check it out at http://www.drupalgardens.com/

Cracking Drupal: A Drop in the Bucket is the first book specifically discussing vulnerabilities in the Drupal Content Management System. However, is it all it's 'cracked up' to be? 

I stumbled upon an old post on Acquia.com about the future of Acquia and one comment particularly struck me about use of Drupal in the enterprise. The comment was from Sept. 2008 and here we are in January 2010 and we still don't have these features.

Ever used YSlow? It is a tool from the Yahoo Developer Network which gives some insight into possible performance problems (though it should certainly not be used alone to evaluate web site performance). See Dries Buytaert talk more about it here or even better see Chapter 13 of High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers. One of the suggestions it gives is to gzip content delivery.