About a week ago I released a feedfield CCK module. A few days later David Ayre released feed_node which did almost exactly the same thing - but using the nodeapi rather than CCK.

I have just made a post to my own blog. (Yeah, traitor, I know, but I am trying out Drupal 5. and need content.) I will post a teaser here, but make you go to my site to read the rest. I also think the argument needs a bit of work - but I liked the picture so had to try.

As the second internet boom moves in I get more and more people asking me to review their plans for world dominating web projects. With every NDA I sign, I am becoming very aware that we need to do some serious education about how to build large(ish) projects on Drupal. This post outlines an implementation methodology that I generally recommend following when the plan gets more complex than a few content managed pages. 

Our developer meeting on Wednesday was almost a meta-meeting: we spent the evening discussing what we could be discussing at the meetings. We found that there was a lot to discuss! We also had some remote users listening in via Skype. It would be good to do some research to find out how to best support remote connections. 

I have turned on www.intelligentgiving.com tonight. It's been about 6 months worth of work (and still has much to clean up), and has been a massive Drupal education for me. I have been showing it around the User Group meetings for a while, so many have probably seen it already, but if you take a look around I would appreciate some feedback.

Wealth
There are a lot of scared CMS software vendors out there. For a long time Content Management software vendors have been charging a lot of money for their systems, but, very soon, many people will be asking some pretty serious questions about just how much they are worth. If open source CMS platforms have not yet overtaken their poor commercial cousins, they soon will. Whether or not the commercial CMS giants can claim any real advantage, there is still massive interest in open source platforms – and if you can build them, there is a lot of interest in you.

I would love to see the Drupal users completely mod Linuxworld this year. If you would like to come down and help us man the stall for a while, we love to have you along. If you tell us upfront that you willbe appearing then we could possibly arrange for you to have a special pass.

I have just done some work on a 4.7 feed module that will allow you to theme your RSS feeds using XSLT. This lets you change the way your feed XML is displayed when someone clicks on the RSS icon.