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I wanted to take a a few minutes to document how the Drupal community is amazing in how it self organizes to get stuff done ...

One of the projects that I have started a long time is Userpoints. Being mostly an API, it has flourished with a mini-ecosystem around it of userpoints modules for various and quite diverse things.

For Drupal 6.x, I was fortunate to have jredding (Jacob Redding) take the lead and add several new features that he needs for various projects.

Last Thursday, Khalid gave a talk on Drupal's CCK, Views and Panels for the London, Ontario Drupal Users Group.

The last part of the talk was by Martin Anderson-Klutz, and talks about upcoming features in Views 3.x.

The slides are attached below.

For the May 2010 meeting of the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group (KWLUG), Khalid gave an overview of the MySQL database. This is part 3 of the LAMP series presented to this group as well as other open source events in Canada.

One of the annoying things that we had for years with Drupal is that the directory structure could be much cleaner.

A better directory structure helps with a lot of things, such as backups and upgrades.

If you are attending DrupalCon at San Francisco next week, please join Khalid on Tuesday April 20th, from 3:00 to 4:00 PM. The room is 305.

Khalid will showcase a Drupal site with 2.4 million page views per day, 60 million per month, one server.

2bits.com have proposed two sessions for the upcoming DrupalCon in San Francisco.

The first one is about sharing our experience on how to scale Drupal for high traffic web sites, showcasing a site that gets 2.4 2.5 million page views a day, and 60 66 million page views a month, on a single server! As you can see, the numbers keep moving up, so who knows what it will be by mid April !!

Yesterday, Khalid presented on The LAMP Stack to the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group (KWLUG).

Drupal was of course featured and advocated, among other LAMP based applications and frameworks.

The slides from the presentation are attached.

DrupalCon DC 2009 is one day away, and 2bits.com will be there presenting on Backend Drupal performance optimization and tuning.

This is a topic we often write about in our section dedicated to articles on Drupal performance tuning and optimization for large web sites, and is a very popular section of this web site.

A few days ago, The Guardian, a leading UK based newspaper, featured Ads of The World on their Technology section.

Ads of the World has been running on Drupal for the 4 years it has been in existence, and is a very high traffic site.

2bits.com has released the Nagios monitoring module that integrates your Drupal site (or hundreds of sites!) into with the Nagios monitoring application.

The module reports to Nagios that the site is up and running normally, including: