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.

MEncoder could convert any to any with a bit tricky options. The most difficult conversion is to produce Microsoft specific output format, e.g., WMV. Don't worry. The recent version of MEncoder lets us solve this situation very easy.

To all readers, I'm very glad to announce the first anniversary of this site. At that time, I just want to have a place to store my experiences to share with everyone else and I would like to try Drupal. One year later, Drupal proved itself as the one and only one CMS choice for me because of its high quality code and community.

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.

My laptop has been installed the latest version of Compiz and it just works. Today, I would like to try Beryl on the same laptop without uninstallation any packages especially Compiz. My inspiration is an article at ArsGeek where the author confirmed that Beryl works with i915.