I have used Drupal for a several months. One problem I found is installation system. Actually, it is not real problem for me but my colleagues. They are not programmers or power-users but instead, they are just end-users. In order to install Drupal, I have to place the Drupal source somewhere, initialize database, configure settings.php and then create the first user account. So the most difficult part is to create new database and populate base schema based on what predefined by Drupal’s core. Comparing to Joomla!, it is much more simpler to simplify installation process by wizard style for going through filling the form. So, Drupal is suitable for power-users who want to take control everything and like deploy complex sites. What is complex site? Drupal, not like other Joomla, is designed to reduce core code modification and patch. In other words, it is designed for easier upgrading without conflicts of modification. Your modifications are usually placed in independent directories so that you can update core code anytime you like.

Access Grid is a platform for multipoint multimedia conferencing over high-speed network. Comparing to H.323, Access Grid requires a lot more bandwidth to make reasonable video conference because it is decentralized architecture. In other words, there is not bottleneck in Access Grid. That’s why it consumes more bandwidth. Microsoft NetMeeting is a clone of H.323 system so Microsoft needs to propose new conferencing system to compete with Access Grid. Now, the new system called ConferenceXP is in the lab.

Enterprise Manager is a powerful utility to access and to control Microsoft SQL 2000 or later. One of a useful tool in Enterprise Manager is data browser. It lets us to query and to modify data in fields. I have some problems about entering data in fields. In some cases, fields are nullable. Initially, it might be null and then I entered something. Once I want to set it back to null, it is not possible to just remove everything I entered. The reason of this problem is the difference of empty string and null. To reset data back to null, you have to press CTRL+0.

According to  which is designed for transforming Java to JavaScript, I have also found Python to JavaScript Compiler. It has not been finished or actively developed but it may be useful for all python developers including me.

I have found an unofficial announcement at AGCentral. It pointed me to the new AG portal to host AGDP. Where is it? No, not the new place but it is just a new CMS, Drupal. The new AGDP is now organized as Documentation taxonomy. Wow! It is a big move for AccessGrid.org from handmade website to interactive one. As expectation, it is many more up-to-date.

Eventually, Google has finally   (GWT), its AJAX framework behind Gmail, Google Calendar and many more. So now we have many choices to develop AJAX applications right now. At least we have  and Google Web Toolkit. These two frameworks are completely different. Yahoo! UI Library offers you a complete set of JavaScript which supposes to handle all dynamic content manipulations. Google Web Toolkit offers a set of Java wrapper to generate all JavaScript at run-time to handle all dynamic content manipulations heavily relying on AJAX technique.