I received an abnormal high number of signals and messages from people abandoning their Wordpress blogs,

because of their hacks, just like Fridaynite did .

It appears to me that simply because there are so many vulnerable Wordpress installations out there, it became a promising goal

to hack Wordpress installs and

• inject some HTML code (for links)
• inject WHOLE POSTS into the wordpress archives (backdated)
• put in some cookie-stuffing code in to overwrite affiliate links’ credits

So DRUPAL6 was released last week finally – this is the GO for all module developers (like us) and heavy drupal users (like us)

to set aside their “normal” business (which is NOT drupal maintenance, consulting or else) and plan for DOZENs of hours and days

to upgrade all their sites…

Frankly,

we are running DRUPAL 4.x sites

we are running DRUPAL 5.x sites

and we will be running the new company site for cemper.com on Drupal 6 soon (postponed launch for DP6)

BUT, I will not and cannot commit to an upgrade mania solely to generate work and say we’re running recent versions

The alpha version of the anti proxy hack module is available…

Announcement of the anti proxy hack module for Drupal

Over the last 2 weeks I’ve had problems on three sites with the exact same problem.

The watchdog table grew FASTER than the cron job (which should delete old log entries older than e.g. 3 days) would have deleted it.

This again ended in a “device full” last night when one watchdog table became 5 gigs.

(and I had a “table full” problem on another site last week – tough 64bit MYSQL should be able to do 4TB spaces, that one was 4GB only)

Now, it’s obvious that disk full problems shouldn’t be a problem for a content management system like Drupal to take care about,

I just came across this WordPress 2.x Plugin called Show Top Commentators which should encourage more discussion from your readers, by displaying their names (linked to their website if desired) and number of comments they have made recently to your sidebar.

So far I have no idea if this cool function is available for drupal,

but I think it could be worthwhile implementing such a plugin.

Just reading Dries’ rant about Hiring Drupal Coders and can fully agree with him.

From my experience I haven’t found a single student on the austrian universities coding Drupal. Reason for search students was for a part-time assignment PLUS the expectation that younger people would tend to do more “web based stuff”

Finally, a 5.x capable version of comment_notify is ready for testing.

Going to DrupalCon 2007

Drupal 4.7.x (prior to 4.7.6) breaks if you run it on PHP 5.2.1 … read about the ONE line you need.

Weblog.Cemper.Com was created in June 2003 on MovableType 2.65 – after 3,5 years all the content was successfully migrated to DruPal

Drupal CCK is getting better every day… so much flexibiliy is breathtaking

Drupal Trackback module finally supports Akismet, thanks to the code that I wrote to integrate those two.

OpenSearch API let’s you free yourself from Google to some extend…

Drupal 5 release candidate