Drupal is the worst form of CMS except for all the others that have been tried.

I'd just like to point out here that the 28 people were not killed by the failure of the intercept system. They were killed by the nice folks who launched the missile in the first place.

My team has been using Springloops for about a year now and I'm very happy with it. The ability to configure multiple servers and deploy any revision to any server at any time is really fab. You can also set autoupdate to any server on every commit.

Doesn't just about every browser still claim to be Mozilla in the user-agent response?

I'm not kidding. So much of what I used to do for a living is trivial with Drupal. Writing custom modules for our clients is fun again and I never have to worry about mundane every-site stuff like user management, perms, front controller dispatching...you name it; if it's common, Drupal will do it for you. Or a contrib module will.

I started picking up Drupal in late 2005, played and learned for a couple of years, and 2008 was almost entirely Drupal builds. From cookpolitical.com where we worked out serious data handling, to tobaccofreecenter.org in seven languages, to globalnetwork.org with it's graphic-heavy design, I've had a blast working with this system!

Er, I didn't actually mean to trot out portfolio highlights there...but what the hell, those are good examples of what you can do with Drupal (and how to make your Drupal site not look like a Drupal site). This is what happens when someone gets me talking about Drupal. Yay!

Back on-topic: Thanks for the review. I'll definitely be picking up this book. If it's anything like Pro Drupal Development from Apress, it'll pay for itself in the first chapter with some nugget that saves me an hour!

I live in Madison and hope to make it. Thanks for letting me know. I also just dashed off an email about this CC'd to Larry Palm (my alder) and the offices of the mayor and city attorney. I have no idea who has the real power in this situation, but it sounds like that meeting will be a good place to start. -Jason