Today, January 5, Drupal version 7.0 was released ( download Drupal here ). Drupal 7 release parties will be held worldwide on January 7 (which also happens to be my birthday - yay!).

Congratulations to the team of almost 1,000 developers who helped make Drupal 7 a reality, and congratulations to Dries Buytaert , the founder of Drupal, and webchick , the person who shepherded (and continues herding) the community as the Drupal 7 core maintainer!

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I've only been using the Apple TV for a few days now, but I have used it enough to jot down a few first impressions. I'll likely do a full-on review at some point in the future.

Some of the things I really, really like about the ATV (I have the black/2010 model):

• Disappearing act : This thing is tiny, and it's black. I hate seeing anything besides my speakers and my TV, and the Apple TV

Just posted for my own reference - here's my workflow for updating a D6 (probably also D7) website using drush. Comprehensive information about all drush commands can be found on the https://drush.ws/ website. If you're not yet drinking the drush kool-aid, you need to—if you use a Linux server, of course.

1. Visit admin/reports/updates page on your site, read through any relevant release notes for required updates (to check

The following is a video I recorded on my wife's Canon PowerShot S95 in 720p HD (stereo). It turned out pretty well, and actually captured some of the great detail in the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's performance of 'First Snow' (like the glittering 'snowflakes' in the laser light):

Note: The guide below still applies, but you can now rip and convert Blu-Ray movies directly in Handbrake if you download MakeMKV (don't even need to run it) then run the following commands in Terminal.app: cd ~ mkdir -p ~/lib ln -s /Applications/MakeMKV.app/Contents/lib/libmmbd.dylib ~/lib/libaacs.dylib ln -s /Applications/MakeMKV.app/Contents/lib/libmmbd.dylib ~/lib/libbdplus

How to Stream from Tricaster Broadcast/Pro to Ustream.tv

The following instructions are based on this video , embedded below:

Preliminary Notes:

• You need at least version 2.5 of Tricaster software.
• Download 2.5 or later at register.newtek.com (go to my downloads).
• For Watershed, the process is similar, but you need to get the Flash XML file from Watershed directly.

First, you'll need to turn on the Tricaster, and make sure it's connected to the

Drupal is a scalable, flexible, and open source content management system that is built to run on a variety of server architectures. The only real requirement is that PHP runs on your system. You can run Linux, Microsoft, Mac OS X, etc., along with Apache, IIS, nginx, MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. if you're willing to do a few extra things.

However, the overwhelming majority of Drupal websites use the most popular LAMP stack on the backend: Linux, Apache

For some time, I've been using the most hackish ways of including custom CSS and Javascript in my site via themes and custom modules. The problem has been (at least, in Drupal 6) that the hook_preprocess_page() function, inside which I'd really like to include my drupal_add_css() and drupal_add_js() functions, due to the fact that it's easy to see what page I'm on, or what kind of