B. Mann Consulting

So, it's probably about time I took some thoughts that have been rambling around my head for a while and even spilled out a bit in #drupal here and there, and talked about what I think about "gold stars" for Drupal contrib modules. 

Nick Lewis has written one of his usual thought provoking posts on the subject of having a "top tier" of contributed modules. I agree...in principle. But he's also wrong.

Rasmus has a short sample PHP script of how he keeps a Windows XP box in sync with an OS X iTunes library.

If you want an easy double-click install of PHP in .pkg format, you go here and use Marc's stuff. The installer even makes the necessary changes so that PHP "just works" on your OS X box.

The Jabber guys are planning world domination with us here at BarCamp Amsterdam. Ralph is keeping the secret pretty close to his chest, but we've got it pretty well sketched out: our session is at 14:30 today in the kitchen

Apparently, Drupal isn't ranking highly in searches for "PHP CMS", so I'm doing some links to help with that. Funny thing is, searching for Broken CMS ends up pointing to a Drupal-powered site...but it has links to Typo3, XOOPS, and PHPWCMS. Yeah, we laughed.

I'm hoping that James will commit his Jabber module today, so that we can kick the tires on it. Of course, the ejabberd server already runs their community site on Drupal. We had a little bit of a discussion about have a new jabberd server that has some of the attributes of ejabberd -- distributed, fault-tolerant, etc. -- except, not written in a not very widely supported language like erlang. Python and the Twisted networking framework sound like good choices.