Drupal has been attracting some really great writers recently, and I have a couple of serious Drupal crushes going at the moment. The first is the blog of Shelley Powers, author of a whole stack of tech books published by O’Reilly. Shelley wrote the first book I ever bought on RDF and has thoroughly documented her initial Drupal experiences. The second is the fantastic site of Sacha Chua whose writing melts my tech heart and gives me the digital butterflies. These two, and many other recent newcomers, have made Planet Drupal very rewarding in the past weeks. And before anyone starts getting jealous about my new blog loves, I promise to still be faithful to my romances of the past (I’m winking flirtatiously at you, Nick Lewis!)

Great job, Dmitri!

Working with Drupal and other open source projects has introduced me to some really brilliant and wonderful people. That's the part of contributing that has been the most worthwhile.

The Wordpress 2.6 Beta 1 is now available. Hats off to the Wordpress team. Here are some features that we should have in Drupal, too:

1. A new and improved image editing dialog that offers lots of control over the images in your posts: This is interesting and worth checking out. Whoever makes it easy to post images and integrate them into posts will attract massive numbers of users. Drupal lags here.
2. Better SSL support for the Admin: It should be easy for the (non-technical) admin to have either all of a Drupal site or just the admin and login portions go over https.
3. The ability to move wp-config.php out of your web root: This would be settings.php for Drupal and (optionally) moving it out of the webroot is probably a “Good Thing”