I personally use ATOM instead of RSS at my site. In Drupal, we have atom module which served me for a year perfectly. Anyway, it was not ported to Drupal 5 yet. Here is my first contribution.

As of now, AJAX is a must to have in recent web application including CMS. Drupal 5.0 has selected jQuery as its core JavaScript backend as well as AJAX engine. In this article, I will give a brief example how to develop a simple AJAX application with jQuery.

In my opinion, the best open-source project is not Firefox, Azureus, Mambo, or Joomla!. They are just popular but not the good one. I'm sure Firefix, Azureus, phpMyAdmin, and Joomla! are all best softwares, no doubt. However, we have never gotten any chances to involve in the project at all. These projects have their core development teams and we are all end-users or a kind of add-on module developers. The thing is different in a project like Drupal.

Interestingly, everyone have their top ten, e.g., Blognone, Bangkok Post, GameSpot, IGN and many more. I would like to add some more specific topic regarding programming.

Drupal 5 seems to be one of the most flexible content management system. In fact, I would like to call it as a content management framework instead of a complete system. Drupal is not perfect for all situations but it is possible to make it perfect easier than other candidates. Imagine what you need to do if you want to develop a kind of web application. There are 2 approaches; library or framework. Library means you are going to develop the web application from scratch by given building blocks. Framework, like the name said, comes with everything but your application. To develop application using a framework, you are about to follow the rule of that framework. It also provides collection of APIs; however, the main mechanisms are also available and must follow.

According to my previous howto regarding ISPConfig and Courier's userdb, there are some problems with some crypted passwords. In particular, passwords may contain the delimiter (|) and the back quote (`) for evaluation in bash shell. As a result, the generated userdb will be invalid. Below is the script to fix these problems.