Drupal Planet

While centralised (or at least single-point of control) social networks are dominant right now, social networking is really something bigger that what any one company should handle. Work is underway to provide the necessary technology stack to achieve that and we would love to see Drupal lead the way the same way it has done with Semantic Web technologies. This is hopefully just our one of many contributions in that direction. We set the scene and figure out what would be a good, practical first goal.

How do you know you are "doing the right thing" while building a Drupal website? What does best practice really mean? I think best practice can be identified not on the merits of how many people do the same things but on the basis of whether it passes a set of sensible rules. In this post I try to outline some of the ones I apply to help me decide whether a solution is sensible, and I hope others will chime in with their own methods.

While everyone is excitedly awaiting for the big features of Drupal 7 like the improved UI, CCK in Core, file handling, new database layer etc - it may be the one feature most people don't talk about that will have the most impact in the long-term. RDFa.

Any debate about the direction of Drupal development, and especially the recent one regarding Drupal core, can benefit from identifying what are the basic building blocks that define Drupal in the most fundamental way. A clear notion of what a Drupal core really is allows us to focus on how that should develop in the future. In trying to clarify my own ideas regarding Drupal's future direction I attempt to outline these building blocks here.

Along the way I also argue that these basic blocks are actually pretty excellent and can, if such a direction is adopted by the community, allow Drupal to become a fantastic framework on which to built a range of different applications.