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WordPress.com Implements the Twitter API 39

This morning Matt Mullenweg announced on his blog that WordPress.com has enabled posting and reading blogs via the Twitter API. Now any Twitter app that supports a custom API URL (Tweetie is one such) can be used to either post updates to a WordPress.com blog, or to read updates from blogs to which one has subscribed. Dave Winer calls the move by Automattic, WordPress.com's parent company, "deeply insidious," and notes that 10 years ago he did a similar thing in his Manila blogging platform when the Blogger API came out. Winer opines that Automattic's move has made the Twitter API into an open standard, due to WordPress.com's large base. Winer notes (in a comment on the above-linked post), "The fun starts if they [WordPress] relax some of the limits of the Twitter API and fix some of the glaring problems."

Comment Re:Don't know too much about Magento, but do know (Score 1) 124

Thats just false.

If you're a small company selling some products, ubercart and drupal is for you. You can see a good list of sites using it now.

the ONLY time I'd recommend someone spending money to develop their own ecommerce system is if they have something extremely customized--$million+ sites... NewEgg for example... and even then, the amount of money and time to make a 'custom' cart system could be cut by spending that time on extending the drupal and ubercart frameworks.

Comment Drupal + Ubercart (Score 1) 124

A big piece missing from Magento is the content management portion. There has been talk about integrating Magento as a third party add-on to drupal, but its so different in how it handles content, that it doesn't really work.

A decent alternative is Ubercart and Drupal. Ubercart, while not the best example of -good- drupal code, it is getting better, and d7uc is planning on bringing much of the code to drupal standards. One big plus about ubercart is its extensibility. Despite it being a bloated shopping system (built for a mom-and-pop shop, similar to magento), it is easy to override functions and get it to do what you want. Ubercart is also used extensively on major websites, almost everything that uses drupal 6 and ecommerce.

In the dark days of ubercart, or when I'm banging my head on a problem that cannot be easily solved with it, I've looked to magento, but then came running back.

Comment Re:Security! (Score 1) 122

As opposed to building your own website, or using RoR/Plone to build a site, which cannot be easily checked for security updates? no thanks.

Drupal has a dedicated security team which is proactive on maintaining secure code. One reason the white house gave for using drupal is because of its diligence to security.

Drupal also encourages and has best practices that -most- modules (especially the most popular ones) will weed out the most obvious security issues such as input sanitization, SQL injection, etc. While its not perfect, its -much- more secure than your own implementation.

When your code is exposed to the web, you always must be on watch. No code is perfectly secure, and to think otherwise is naive.

Comment Re:Drupal is for coders (Score 1, Informative) 122

Acquia is not a fork, its a distribution of drupal core + the most popular contrib modules
Drupal core can be thought similar to the Linux Kernel, whereas modules represent the packages that make up a distribution of drupal.

Mollom and TinyMCE work great together

With ultimate flexibility comes an interesting learning curve. But thats what documentation is for.

Wonder if a module is used in drupal? you can look at its usage statistics. Want to do something in drupal? if you google it, usually someone else has already done it and in many cases have a screencast to go along with it.

"How will Acquia keep up with the rapid evolution of Drupal core and modules?"
This question addresses the upgrade path for a site. Like linux (or windows), modules are constantly evolving. Its hard for corporate customers to know if the new version will break things. By using a distribution like Acquia drupal, they do the testing to make sure everything works together.

From your comments, it sounds like your experience with drupal is somewhat new. Spend some time on IRC, going to drupal meetups, drupalcon, or take a lullabot course.

Comment Re:Drupal is for coders (Score 0) 122

While some of your points (forum module) are valid, the part of needing PHP or that $$$$ is better spent on a closed source alternative is BS. If you want to create a simple family website, you can goto Acquia.com, download acquia drupal, which has all the modules you need for a simple family site, blog, image site, etc. There are tons of howtos, videos, etc that will teach you how to create the site without touching one line of code.

Most large shops are going drupal because they'd rather spend their $$$$ on developing custom cool things for the site instead of spending it on the closed-source CMS. And, once the site is deployed, the shop has a very large community to draw from for upgrades, changes, bug fixes, etc. They can even goto a different dev team who speaks drupal and not be tied into the company that originally built the site.

The White House, Sony, Lifetime, The Onion, Popular Science, Harvard, etc have PLENTY of money and all choose to use Drupal.
Government

Submission + - Whitehouse.gov switches to Drupal (techpresident.com)

Falc0n writes: "WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal. After months of planning, says an Obama Administration source, the White House has ditched the proprietary content management system that had been in place since the days of the Bush Administration in favor of the latest version of the open-source Drupal software.
Dries Buytaert reflected on this, adding: "this is a clear sign that governments realize that Open Source does not pose additional risks compared to proprietary software, and furthermore, that by moving away from proprietary software, they are not being locked into a particular technology, and that they can benefit from the innovation that is the result of thousands of developers collaborating on Drupal.""

It's funny.  Laugh.

The First Geek Wedding At a LinuxFest 93

At the Ohio LinuxFest yesterday, two Linux geeks were married — or had their projects merged into a single trunk, as the officiant, Lord Drachenblut, put it. The wedding of Randy Noseworthy (proprietor of the Juiced Penguin) and Janet Edmonson was announced last week and was live-tweeted by at least one attendee — here's his photo of the happy couple. There's also a video of the ceremony, at which Jon "Maddog" Hall offered a blessing via pre-recorded audio.
Update: 09/26 20:03 GMT by KD : In the comments, anyaristow notes that this wasn't the first such wedding; Rob Landly and Fade were married at Penguicon in 2007, with Steve Jackson officiating and Eric Raymond as best man.

Comment Not Enterprise ready, wha? (Score 0) 688

In addition, Microsoft has a host of IT and management tools for deploying, maintaining and updating Windows hardware and software. Windows 7 adds some new ones, including management tools that use the scripting and automation capabilities of Windows PowerShell 2.0.
Snow Leopard makes a nod toward the enterprise, with built-in support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. But that's simply not enough. Snow Leopard is a consumer operating system, and isn't accompanied by the kind of management tools and IT ecosystem that enterprises need in order to manage large deployments.


Obviously this guy has not worked in an OSX or UNIX enterprise environment. There is a plethora ïof tools for OSX that make it very easy to manage across the enterprise. Add OSX server and netboot, and you have a very robust infrastructure built on OSX. Works well with exchange, but there are better groupware systems that also work with mail.app, And if he thinks 'powershell 2.0' can even come close to bash, hes gotta be on somethingï.

I find it annoying with reviewers play down OSX as some silly consumer product, unworthy of enterprise, management, or doing 'real work'. You goto a F/OSS developer conference and always over half, if not near 8 of 10 laptops will be OSX. Goto a film, media, or science tech conference and you'll find that number pushing 90%.

Comment Re:Respect rules of the road, not just the officia (Score 0) 882

I'll try to write this in the nicest way possible.

YOU are the problem. YOU cause most traffic to slow down. YOU are what causes road rage. Its really quite simple actually. You stay right except to pass. Period. If you think you're so self-righteous that you can set the speed for others and feel good about that, thats the definition of DOUCHEBAG, and don't deserve to be on the road.

It was a pleasure to drive in Germany. You stay in the right all the time, and not once in 2 weeks did I have to pass someone on the right. Everyone plays by the rules. It might be because if you don't, you'll have a mercedes going 200km/h that looks like it'll run right into you.

But seriously, people need to go back to driving school and learn that you STAY RIGHT AT ALL TIMES EXCEPT TO PASS.

And don't sit in the middle lane either. In many states, trucks are not allowed to use the left lane at all, therefore they need to pass in the middle lane. This includes RVs, People hauling trailers behind them, etc. So what does that mean...? STAY RIGHT AT ALL TIMES EXCEPT TO PASS!

So please, do us all a favor and get off the road and use mass transit if you can't follow this simple rule... STAY RIGHT AT ALL TIMES EXCEPT TO PASS

Comment Re:And Yet... (Score 1, Interesting) 317

What does the freedom of driving a vehicle have to do with "the quartering of soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent or making quartering legally permissible in wartime only, and then only in accordance with law." ???

Regardless, there is no provision in the constitution that even comes close to mandated drivers licenses. Why? First, driving a motor vehicle on government or private property is a privilege, not a right. Freedom of travel relates to enforcement officers or laws that impede the free-flow of people no matter what method of transport. We're talking about checkpoints, DUI random checks, immigration stops, etc. This is a totally different issue.

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