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Together with the new release of the incredibly simple desktop client Picasa 3, Google also improved the software driving the Picasaweb albums.

A good article describing the features can be found at arstechnica, but I'd just like to say that the one feature that amazed me was the face-tagging.

Mollom my hero!

After reading Kristof's latest blog I decided to check my Mollom stats. And indeed, since last week the spam attacks on my site have quadrup(a)led.

Needless to say that ZERO spam comments have passed Mollom's excellent Artificial Intelligence.

Thank you Dries, thank you Benjamin, thank you Drupal.

The smell of dried lavender made me even more relaxing than enjoying the emptiness of the Provence fields. This pixture was taken near Le Grand Logisson in Brunet

Verzamelen geblazen voor Drupal gebruikers.

Vanavond (4 aug 2008) wordt voor de 2de keer een user group meeting georganiseerd door jax in Vilvoorde. Meer info op http://drupal.be/node/1410

Surprised by the in-your-face-advertising on the drupalcon.org site (I'm referring to the horizontal flower-bar at the bottom which announces Acquia and Sun as main sponsors for the event) i checked the page listing all the sponsors, some weird statistics grabbed my attention:

Just a few days before the early discount (80€ iso 120€) ends, i signed up for the drupalcon event in Szeged Hungary.

Like other people around the area, we were also thinking of renting a mini-van and drive the 1500km's in pure geeky style. i.e Powersupply + 3G broadband included for the whole 15hours of travel. But ...

Last friday, we headed off to the well organized DrupalJam in Elst (Netherlands). More than 60 people showed up at the event and we were delighted to have the opportunity to talk about our latest work for the Dutch quality paper, NRC Handelsblad. Jo Wouters provided an overview of the way we build http://nrcboeken.nl. A lot of interaction with the crowd there!

Disclaimer: I’ve had several people contacting me that they didn’t get this thing to work. I guess i still left out some crucial installation/configuration parts. Use with care!

This step by step tutorial explains HOWTO run functional tests in Drupal core. We will do this both from within drupal and from within eclipse.
My machine is running Ubuntu 7.10 and uses the standard Lamp stack which comes with it. PHP 5, Mysql 5, Apache2.

Op http://drupal.be/node/1154 heeft Tom Jacobs zijn slides gepost die hij gebruikt voor zijn presentatie. Ik heb de (Creative Commons) vrijheid genomen om deze wat bij te werken en lichtjes te restylen.

Je kan de OpenOffice Impress file downloaden en gebruiken.

Zie http://www.slideshare.net/develoop/general-drupal-presentation-in-dutch

Bedankt voor het werk Tom!

Dries has been interviewed by the largest radio station in Belgium. ie. http://stubru.be, which has a few million listeners each day. I actually only listened the last 30 seconds so i'm wondering if some-one has recorded the interview.

Btw, the http://stubru.be website has been build using an awesome CMS!