A social network is a social structure made of individuals (or organizations) called "nodes," which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.

The next video covering command line basics, this one covers common commands for dealing with files:

• cp
• mv
• rm

Fair warning: I say the word "stuff" way too many times in this video. Please just bear with it.
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The best way to a good end user experience is a program of iterative testing and design. There’s been quite a lot of design but not as much iteration as we’d have liked, so now is a good time to really kick off some testing of the D7 interface as it comes into existence so that we can potentially iterate it a little before it is set loose on the unsuspecting public.

So I installed both Spamicide and Hashcash, and Mollom reported a huge dip in spam attempts in August (from the 17th to the 28th, as seen in the screenshot). However, the amount of spam getting through steadily increased after that. The volume of visits according to Google Analytics has remained about the same over the past year. Now the volume of spam getting through is back to roughly where it was before I made the configuration changes...

It’s been a quick week, and we’re still collecting our thoughts about Drupalcon Paris. As usual, it was a productive, informative, and rewarding gathering of the best Drupal minds out there.

Last week was something of a whirlwind for me, flying into Paris on Monday morning, barely recovering from jet lag by Tuesday when DrupalCon Paris 2009 started, and racing through the week.

We're making some nice progress on the creation of a template site to which we can replicate in order to migrate our 70 affiliate sites into a single codebase, mult-site installation of Drupal (as per this page). We have a group of so-called "early testers" who will have their sites migrated first and will then perform some of the basic operations for managing their site: creating content, managing their menu, blocks, etc.

Last month I published a blog post asking the Drupal community what Project Management Software they use, how they use it, and what their experience was. This was in an effort to understand what PMSes are being implemented amongst our inspiring community of Drupal fans. Are they enjoying the software or cursing and shaking their angry fists at the screen? We received a total of 17 unique comments, with 13 answers to the query.

At DrupalCon I got many stares, photos and too few discussions about my keyboard and mouse so I thought I should do a quick writeup. The keyboard is a Kinesis Freestyle, which in itself is a great thing: it's a traditional layout split keyboard. You can set it to be shoulder-wide and then type in a much more natural position already. I have added an Ascent to it which allows you to set up the keyboard 20-90 degrees.

Thanks to the diligent work of Jose A Reyero and myself, I'm happy to announce that starting from about an hour ago, we launched new filtering options and a moderation screen for easier translation management.
New and more granular filters
Over Drupalcon Paris, we added and launched more granular status filters, which allow you to separately filter for translated/untranslated strings and ones with suggestions or lacking suggestions. These were in one bizarrely integrated filter before, and now are separated.