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A "wheel fiddle" remix of the Drupal Song. H/T: Lullabot

It's official the Drupal Redesign team of Mark Boulton and Leisa Reichelt from Mark Boulton Design was at Drupalcon in Szeged. They discussed their strategy and initial findings for the redesign of Drupal.org. If you want to follow this projects progress or get involved keep an RSS on the Redesign group.

Full information on the conference is at Barcamp Chicago.
August 16th-17th (whole weekend, 24 hours a day)!

1240 W. Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60607 (map)
You can help out in 3 ways:

1. Show up! The entire conference is free including all talks, food and drinks (free as in free beer).

CDMUG is set to jet @ the upcoming HostingCon conference at Navy Pier. The Drupal CMS Open Source Project will be represented by your local Chicago Drupal MUG members from exhibitor booth #820. The purpose of the event is to promote offering Drupal to all hosting providers as a default install; As well as help users find the best Drupal hosting companies. The Hostingcon Show Guide is now available.

This group is dedicated to solutions and approaches for high traffic, high performing Drupal sites. As such, it will deal with a lot of information around the rest of a typical Drupal "stack" -- the operating system, web server, database, and PHP tweaks that combine to support the Drupal application.

I found this group while researching for tips about Drupal and Cloud Computing.

Ajaxian.com has a post today mentioning the release of Firebug 1.2 beta that is Firefox 3 compatible - HOORAY!

Successfully, I spent the last day trying to enable Clean URL's on a Drupal 5.7 remote server (media temple (dedicated virtual). I want to thank all CDMUG members who pulled together with me to investigate this by phone, email, and IM. Im walking away from this with a new appreciation for linux guru's and the ssh command line. With that said - Im going to provide a 5 step hack to enable Clean URL's. I'd only try this hack as a last resort; I put a few links below that have more tips on the subject.

Step 1. Download this x.htaccess file

I heard about this last night... and researched it (everyone else is probably way ahead of me, but I thought I would share anyway)

Drupal Camp - Central Illinois Friday May 2nd 9am-4pm

INFORMATION and SIGN-UP
http://slane.bradley.edu/drupalbootcamp/ Register for the site if you are planning to attend.

RIDES COORDINATION
http://cdmug.org/node/173 or contact me with your email and phone and I will coordinate.