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"If you are new to Drupal, you will find Drupal 7 to be easy to use, yet extremely powerful. Over the course of this book we will work our way through the most important features of Drupal 7, so you can begin to gain familiarity with Drupal. Read more about Drupal 7 First Look book

Drupal has always been known to be a great platform to build community sites and with the abundant of modules available to extend the core system, it really has made it so much easier now even for people with very little web development skills. For this reason, some group of people feel they should build their own local community site as opposed to using highly popular social network site like Facebook (groups). There are many reasons but i believe it comes down to the need for total control over the management and delegation of the site to serve a niche community. Read more about Book Review: Drupal 6 Ultimate Community Site (2nd Edition) Dorien Herremans

The first ever Scottish DrupalCamp event will be taking place in Edinburgh. Organised by the local Drupal User Group and supported by Informatics Ventures at the University of Edinburgh.

This one day event is sponsored by 39Steps / Acquia / i-KOS / Packt Publishing.

To register for this free event and more info, visit: http://www.informatics-ventures.com/sub-pillars/barcamp/drupalcamp-edinb... Read more about DrupalCamp Edinburgh 2010

Packt launch fifth annual Open Source Awards

Birmingham, UK. 9th August 2010

The 2010 Open Source Awards was launched today by Packt, inviting people to visit www.PacktPub.com and submit nominations for their favorite Open Source project. Now in its fifth year, the Award has been adapted from the established Open Source CMS Award with the wider aim of encouraging, supporting, recognizing and rewarding all Open Source projects. Read more about Packt launch fifth annual Open Source Awards

This is the new version of 1pixelout audio flash player (version 2) for Joomla! Most of the code has been re-written to support Joomla 1.5 / 1.6 / 1.7

What has been included in this new release (1pxielout audio player 2.0):

• Compatible with Joomla 1.5 / 1.6 / 1.7
• Play more than one song with next/prev buttons
• Resizable flash player width
• Show remaining time (instead of lapsed time)
• Customise Artist and/or Title information displayed for every song (ie override the idtag to insert your own)
• Can play mp3 file from an external url
• Added volume control
• Translation for different languages (en/it/fr/de/es/nl/pl/pt/ru)
• More xhtml standard compliant
• Color picker to use choose colour for player
• Download track option
• Compatibility for Kunena forum component

That's right, we finally have a new update of 1pixelout player for Joomla and this one works on J1.5 and 1.6 version. I know some changes in the new Joomla has rendered this plugin somewhat unusable but these have been fixed in this new version.

What's more, it's been quite a significant update (added volume control and width size is changeable too) so maybe it will get it's own one page website? we'll see... Read more about Finally, we have a new version of 1pixelout player for Joomla