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We have launched our new site to prepare for the coming load testing product. Get ready for aWebStorm!

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Here are a few notes about using Performancing For Firefox with Drupal.  When I first installed it, it only worked with the admin user (1st user added) which has special privileges.  I thought at first that other users would not work because we generally have a space in the user name "Firstname Last", but this was not the problem.  The problem was with enabled modules and permissions.  Both the blog and blogapi modules must be enabled.  Then, using administer >> access control >> blog module >> edit own blog >> check this for users who will be using performancing.  The last thing to do is in administer >> settings >> blogapi >> Blog types >> choose one or more type.  We haven't used personal blog (or any blog) for our business sites.  Even though we are really blogging, it is just called other things in Drupal (like stories and pages).

Here is a news story about our largest customer, Alltel. Not sure what effect that it will have on us, but likely there will be some contract adjustments next year.

Although not new, two web tools are now available that solve problems and change the way that we think about the internet. Del.icio.us is a free web service that now has a broad following and good support from 3rd party software and services. Its purpose is very simple: social bookmarking. The basics is that your bookmarks or favorites (internet addresses) are saved to the web site and available to the rest of the world. You categorize them as you wish with tags. Tags are similar to folders except that they are not hierarchical, so a bookmark can have multiple tags and tags have no specific relation to one another.

We added the Drupal module for AdSense today to this site and are planning to put it on some others as well. It can be used as a Drupal block (sidebar) or embedded in content. Embedding seems like it would work well for popular pages, home page between excerpts or at the bottom.

Interesting series called Zero Cash, A Little Talent and 30 Days by Jennifer Laycock, who writes for Search Engine Guide. It is a practical story about making money on the internet.

Links to the articles are available here.

How to build a custom version of Drupal? We have been implementing Drupal for customers and ourselves, and each time make some of the same module and theme additions and settings changes. Today, we are making a first try at a customized version (starting with Drupal 4.6.3) called Site Centrix.

The initial target for this customization is small customer sites or internal sites used for advertising with AdSense or affiliates.

Search and Replace "Drupal" with "SiteCentrix" in all files. Match case and use whole word to avoid changing code.

Replace the default /favicon.ico with the SpreadFireFox theme version.

Here is an article from Manageability titled 101 Ways to Make Money off Open Source. There aren't actually 101 items listed yet, but still there are some good ideas.

Some good information is available at ajaxpatterns.org.