Khalid worked on a backport of the Drupal 6 watchdog hook for custom logging and alerts for Drupal 5.1

This way, Drupal 5.1 users can benefit from custom alerts, and reduce the database load on large site caused by excessive inserts to the watchdog table.

The patch is now available for download from issue #149341.

ChangeEverything.ca is among the Webby Awards Honorees for 2006 in the Social/Networking category.

ChangeEverything.ca is of course a Drupal site, and 2bits has worked on custom modules for it.

Thanks to the folks at SocialSignal for letting us know.

Congratulations!

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We wrote the Technorati module in October 2006 for a site we were working on.

Someone in Vancouver has written a review of the Technorati module. 

A week ago, I proposed a new hook_watchdog, so modules can decide where to send Drupal events, and not be limited to the watchdog table.

As of today, this patch is in core, and there is already two modules that use it, syslog, which is in core, and emaillog, which is part of the logging and alerts project.

This patch opens the door to many neat things, such as:

• Making Drupal more suitable for the enterprise, since it could be integrated better into their monitoring and network management infrastructure.
• Allows site admins to be notified of important events. This applies equally to large and small sites.
• Helps scalability by not logging to the database, thus relieving the load.
• Conforms to RFC 3164 for severity levels.
• Allows integration with many more delivery channels such as SMS, Instant Messaging, ...etc.

The Second Life framework module for Drupal has been released.

This module allows your modules to interact with Second Life objects in interesting way.

Check the project page on drupal.org, and the README.txt file for more information.

Updates

28 Nov 2007: This has finally been released. See the announcement here.