Posted on: October 20, 2005 in Miscellany
Drupal Con 2005
Just finishing up at DrupalCon in Amsterdam. I’ve had an amazing time and the energy here is great.
We’ve had talks from Rasmus Lerdorf (the originator of the PHP project) and David Axmark one of the founders of MySQL. I felt honored to have both the ‘M’ and ‘P’ portions of ‘LAMP’ so well represented at our humble Drupal conference. Highlights included Rasmus scanning drupal.org for XSS vulnerabilities and finding a few (although we did all right in the end).
I also enjoyed the talk from the Joomla guys. Nice job! Some of the things discussed was the sharing of a template system between the drupal and Joomla projects and a shared authentication system. Interesting to see if this could be worked out.
Also interesting was Adrian Rossouw’s talk about simplifying the themeing process for users. I really like the idea of having color pickers and being able to import header images from flickr.
Next up, Bar Camp Amsterdam!