While I love Drupal, it is not the focus of Abraham Harrison, just part of a campaign here or there and the engine behind our AHLLC website. That said, I am a Drupal geek and fan. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the time to attend DrupalCom in DC, just down the street, this year.  I was blue — until now because all 102 sessions are available for free online to watch, TED-style!  Watch ‘em while they’e hot! Via DrupalCon:

Videos of all the sessions that were recorded at DrupalCon DC – all 102 of them – are now available to watch online. So if you missed a few sessions you wanted to see or couldn’t make the conference, take a day this weekend to sit back with a big cup of coffee to watch some amazing Drupal presentations.

You can access the videos in several ways. You can browse the session descriptions on the DrupalCon site and find links to videos in the comments, you can review the list of sessions on Drupal.org and in Archive.org, or you can check out the Wall of Videos that Aaron Winborn created. We’re also working on integrating the videos into the DrupalCon DC website, so stay tuned for more on that.

I just installed Drupal 6 for a couple projects and I shouldn’t have. I should have installed Drupal 6 in some sort of fart around playground because it is a breeze to install and is gorgeous and intuitive and a brilliant next step. All the good default templates (AKA themes) are ported as well. Unfortunately, some of the nicest modules (AKA plugins) are not available for the Drupal 6 core yet. Very sad. Very very sad. But, all you need to do is wait. The same thing happened when I upgraded to version 2.3 of WordPress, too. That was a fiasco — huge changes in the MySQL tables broke everything and I had to yank loads of plugins. I am OK because I can work with Drupal 6 with my current installs because my favorite core modules, pathauto and Meta tags, are ported. Unfortunately, most of the cool tools I use on Memes.org are not. So, for now, stick with Drupal 5.7, no matter how tempted you are, especially if you rely heavily on 3rd party modules and plugins.

That said, what I would like to see ported completely ASAP are:

• Akismet
• Community Tags
• Page Title
• Tagadelic
• TinyMCE
• URL List
• Views (thanks, John Berns)*

There are more, but this is off the top of my head. *I think that Views is now out as 6.x-2.0-alpha2, but there are lots of warnings and caveats, so be warned.