First trial with Drupal 6
I installed drupal 6 on Monday for testing. In my first trial, according to my expectation, its new action and trigger are useful and suitable for workflow operation.
But it is not a right time to migrate existing rich drupal 5 web sites to version 6 for me. Some contributed drupal modules for drupal 5 are missing, module developers are busy to porting their code for new version.
And new version might suitable to build new English web site only, because completion % of string translation for Chinese locale is low. Localisation Client is a drupal 6 module provides on-page localisation (string translation).
Currently, I am still starting to code my drupal module for version 5, and will be ported to new drupal version after reaching first milestone of my development.
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非一般的 CMS – Drupal 6 很酷！
在去年，我建立了不少以 Drupal 5 作內容管理系統的網站，雖然談不上對使用 Drupal 系統十分深入，但在看過 Dries（Drupal 創立者）在比利時 FOSDEM 2007 大會上的演說（ogg 影片）後，基於 Drupal 的 node 資料結構，我便認定 Drupal 是一套最優秀的 PHP Web Framework，在它的 framework 下所建立的內容管理，比起其它我以前試過的 CMS 更具擴充性。
昨天，我才抽空看看 Drupal 6 的資料：
- 安裝程式比 Drupal 5 更簡單快捷；
- 以拖拉式（Drag-and-Drop）來管理版面區塊，選單，上傳文件，欄位管理等；
- 更簡易內容／文章翻譯介面已成為核心模組之一，可根據特定網址，使用者設定，瀏覽器設定等自動選擇語言；
- 加入 Action 和 Trigger 來建立內容處理流程（Workflow）；
- OpenID 支援也成為核心模組之一；
- 自動知會軟件更新（在管理介面上或以電郵通知）；
- 還有其它；
真的很酷！在我的感覺上，加入 Action 和 Trigger，或許令 Drupal 6 的 Web Framework 更具擴充性，但要在體驗一下後，才會知道它的 Action 和 Trigger 是否如我所想的一樣。
Mastering Drupal – New features in Drupal 6 Screencast：
http://www.masteringdrupal.com/screencast/new-features-drupal-6
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drupal.org users in Hong Kong
I googled “drupal hong kong” tonight to look for any Drupal sites in Hong Kong. I found a list of drupal.org users living in Hong Kong.
After I login to my drupal.org account, I selected as China as my living country, few minutes later I was reminded my suggestion to drupal.org – Hong Kong was missing out from the country field in user account creation, which was finally solved by drupal.org webmaster team.
Therefore, at least 240 drupal.org users are living in Hong Kong, and I found out few local blogs and sites related to Drupal.
http://www.joetsuihk.com/frontpage?page=1
