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.

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.

Drupal 5 RC1 has been released for a while. In this version, strings are frozen. All translators are encouraged to contribute again. I have merged the translated strings in Drupal 4.7 to Drupal 5. You are welcome to make Drupal 5 the perfect CMS for Thai.

Apache HTTPD is one of the most popular web server in this world. It may handle wide range from light load to heavy load. Another popular one is lighttpd. There are so many benchmarks to compare these two softwares. For lighttpd, lighttpd is the best. In other view, Apache HTTPD is the best for themselves. These benchmarks are just to measure performance under heavy load. Another approach to improve performance is to reduce load.