Drupal Gardens is a web-based tool to create Drupal 7 web sites. It is still in beta and I received my access code today to log in and start using the Drupal Gardens web site!

Prior to Drupal 7, content writers often had to decide between a "Page" and a "Story" content type. Ok, it's not a blog or a forum post or an image... but which is it, Page or Story? I generally differentiated them by making the Page like a standard HTML page, clean, and the Story more like a blog post, with author metadata. The writer still says, "I have no idea what you're talking about, I just want to post some content, so which one should I use?"

Drupal 7 has simplified the decision by introducing a new default content type: the "Article" which should be familiar to Joomla users as the default post type in that CMS.

Makes sense. Drupal 7 and Drupal Gardens will probably blow Joomla out of the water, so might as well make it comfortable for Joomlaists to transition.

During an Acquia webinar about Drupal 7, I asked if "'Article' was specifically chosen as the default content type to make Drupal more friendly for Joomla users?" Moderator Lynne Capozzi tried to brush it off as a "rhetorical" question, but Drupal creator and curator Dries Buytaert answered that much thought had been given to it and "Article" was chosen as the best option. Excerpt follows:

View entire Acquia webinar about "Making Drupal 7 Simple to Use for Everyone"

Get Drupal 7 via Acquia       Get Drupal 7 from official Drupal.org project page

(Drupal 7 is in alpha release - for production sites use Drupal 6 instead)

from Top Notch Themes

I received an email ... [from] a consultant from IBM ... with a fascinating and detailed comparison of these early experiences with Drupal and Joomla.

I was allowed to post this (anonymously) here to our blog so the community(ies) at large can benefit from this great write-up.

Summary to Date

- Use Joomla if you want to get nice looking site up quickly and can deal with a slower system, rigid content categorization and limited design/configuration options.

- Use Drupal if you want high performance, scalability, good content management and significant design flexibility. But, be prepared to spend a lot of time/money to get the site to look professional.

Read more at Top Notch Themes

Ever wonder what JavaScript frameworks are powering LinkedIn?

The Framework Detector addon for Firefox can tell you:

JS Remoting Library, Prototype, Scriptaculous, Yahoo! UI Library

and the Backend Software Information addon can detect Drupal 5.x, 6.x, Wordpress 2.x, Django, phpBB, MediaWiki, MoinMoin, Joomla, Reddit and more!

Two-legged dog gives hope to disabled Army vets

Associated Press writer Sue Manning wrote the article

It is on the AP wire, Yahoo! News, MSNBC, Google News

Faith can also be found on Social Networks like Twitter and Facebook

AP also posted a video on YouTube of Faith's visit to McChord AFB

After the news broke, traffic to the web site leaped from 50 visits per hour to several hundred per hour - and the Acquia Drupal site hosted at Hot Drupal handled the spike pretty well. I turned on some additional caching for the onslaught.

At 11:50 PM, there are over 200 people on the site at the time I am writing this.