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Creating pretty urls or permanent links in Drupal is easy. Really easy. This functionality comes out of the box with the Path module. And by adding the contributed Pathauto module you can make your life easier by letting Drupal generate the pretty urls automatically based on some properties of your post (like the title).

The query log feature of devel.module has faithfully served us since 2002, relatively unchanged. Since then, the web learned about AJAX and now devel for Drupal 7 finally gets with the times.

In the ops column of the screenshot above, you will see three ajax links titled P, A, E. Those stand for Placeholders, Arguments, and EXPLAIN. They work as follows:

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During a recent browser upgrade I found myself stuck in a bit of a corner. The Firefox add-on I had been using, Xdebug Helper, was discontinued, and the supposed replacement add-on for it didn't work correctly.

You might remember that a while ago, Drupal was promoted to the 'Visionaries' category in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace. For someone unfamiliar with all the social software vendors and projects, the choice can be overwhelming and Gartner's reports can carry a lot of weight in the decision making process. Drupal's promotion to the 'Visionaries' category was a big win for all of us.

The Drupal Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping the Drupal community with fun­ding, infra­structure, events, promotion and distribution. The current Board of Directors was elected almost a year ago, so it's election time again!