Large organizations want to, or may actually need, strict access control and content review workflows to manage the publishing process on their website. Drupal's default roles and permissions system is designed to handle the simplest of setups. However, there is a wide variety of modules that each address these needs. Many of them overlap, some complement each other, while others are abandonded and haven't been ported to Drupal 7. In this article, I'll look at some active modules for these requirements.

Finally. This is a huge step forward for Drupal. After eschewing OOP practices for a long time, its finally winning over core developers, which will make working with Drupal as a Framework easier in many ways. I copied the announcement below, but you can see that patch and discussion here.

I may be a bit late to the party with this observation, but web design is finally evolving. Mobile phones and tablets have freed us from having to use a laptop or desktop to use the web. Using HTML and CSS, designers can now use media queries to control how a site appears on different devices.  If done right, and done from the beginning to save costs, your website can be useable and look nice on multiple devices, without the need to setup a different mobile site or theme.

When a prominent developer and contributor lashes out that Drupal is in dire straits, you better listen.  You ought to read his critique of how Drupal core development is stalling, or at least stuck in the mud.  That can't be good news for anyone looking to upgrade to Drupal 7.  My thoughts after the quote.

Matthew at DogStar describes his PM toolbox today, The Project Management Tool Box | Opensource, Nonprofits, and Web 2.0.  It's a detailed and well organized list, and I think reflects a very practical approach. The first thing that strikes me, is the overwhelming amount of tools available to the would-be PM.  Certainly, there is no lack of tools out there.

I had a great time attending and presenting at CapitalCampDC this year, and look forward to doing it again.  I talked about how we are using Facebook applications to run contests at D.C. United.  You can view the slides at the link below.

Download: 

Facebook-to-Drupal-July 2011.pdf

Good explanation of the limitatins of using Drupal to run a multi-lingual site.

THOUGHTS

Drupal Development and Deployment using Git | ruzee.com - Steffen Rusitschka

I posted a comment over at Five community challenges for design in Drupal 7 & beyond. It is awaiting moderation but here it is in case it doesn't get approved.

Don't follow the advice posted below to "optimize" your site based on the user agent string.  The author suggests doing so in the page.tpl.php for your theme.  However, this means you can NEVER turn caching on for your site.  Also, the uses ereg functions to "detect" the device.  These functions are now deprecated by PHP, meaning they won't be supported in the future.