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"A mind needs conferences as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge." -Tyrion Lannister (Royal Scrum Master)

There are many different ecosystems around, and as a strong Drupal house, Druid is also a part of one. Drupal’s success lies in its developer community which is among the largest open source communities in the world. But even the strongest community needs continuous and active participation to stay vibrant.

A bug in OpenSSH client (versions 5.4 through 7.1) has been announced yesterday.

When choosing a technical solution for a web based service project, eyes often turn towards a content management system of some kind, mainly due to the ready-to-use features they offer, their opera

Last week was certainly an exciting one in the Drupal community with Drupal 8 seeing the light of day on November 19, accompanied with celebrations around the world. In Helsinki, the release party was followed by DrupalCamp Helsinki 2015 on November 20-21, gathering together about 140 Drupal enthusiasts in Finland and beyond to learn, collaborate and network.

In October 2014 the Drupal world was shocked. The proverbial excrement had hit the fan, and a security vulnerability had been found in the Drupal core version 7.31. Normally the discovery of a bug in an application is not a newsworthy event in the world of Internet, but in this case the security hole was of such an epic magnitude that it was dubbed “Drupalgeddon”.

Drupal 8 is slowly but surely being finalized.

Pauli Aalto-Setälä wrote an excellent piece as a guest blogger on Markkinointi & Mainonta magazine titled "Näin mediasta tulee taas bisnes - Journalismin viisi mahdollisuutta" (“How Media will become a Business again – Journalism’s Five chances”). Even though I haven’t had to dabble with display advertising, over the last five years I have become acutely aware of media’s despair concerning digitalization, and I have, from time to time, pessimistically believed that the whole industry would shrivel up and be swept away by the tidal wave that is the internet while desperately trying to cling on to its tired old advertising conventions like a piece of driftwood. However, Aalto-Setälä’s blog text with its fresh ideas gave me some hope that maybe media could have the ability to reform. Hopefully others took the hint too. Maybe we should start figuring out what kinds of platforms and solutions the digital journalists and publishers of tomorrow are looking for.

Druid has existed for around three years now.

Nowadays everyone has their own websites, and that’s the way it should be. Phonebooks as fat as, well, phonebooks have been replaced by a web browser, and contact information can be dug up over a taxi ride using your cellphone. Making your mark on the internet is a noteworthy achievement in and of itself, but sometimes it might be better to stop and ponder a bit about the underlying reason for building a website for yourself.