Drupal 6 Attachment Views, by me, J. Ayen Green, is my second title from Packt Publishing.
Our first Drupal 7 alpha version was released just over a month ago. Today, we're proud to announce the release of the second alpha version of Drupal 7.x for your further testing and feedback. The first alpha announcement provided a comprehensive list of improvements made since Drupal 6.x, so in this announcement we'll concentrate on how you can help ensure that Drupal 7 is released as soon as possible and is as rock solid as the previous Drupal releases that you've grown to love!
Attention all brilliant Drupalists: if you want to get your session in for 2010's North American Drupalcon — today is your last day. Go to sf2010.drupal.org/node/add/session and get yours posted. After submitting your great idea, be ready to rally some support for your sessions, because on February 16th voting will begin.
Drupal 6 Performance Tips, by Trevor James and T J Holowaychuk, is a newly-published title from Packt Publishing aimed at Drupal beginners, developers, designers, and webmasters who utilize the Drupal content management system to create robust websites.
Just a few years ago Drupal.org was maintained by a small team of insiders. Now, we are making major changes to the site using the community's many developers and themers.
This update provides the Drupal community our implementation redesign progress, where we've run into challenges, and provide information about our future plans.
The following update provides insight into:

Over the last few years the Drupal project has been evolving its relationship with hosting companies and the hosting industry.
Drupal.org will be offline for some scheduled maintenance on Tuesday 2009-08-11 from 19:00 to 19:30 UTC (noon to 12:30pm PDT, 3:00 to 3:30pm EDT, etc). We'll be upgrading our automated testing infrastructure, and some other code related to releases and issue tracking (which will facilitate implementing the drupal.org redesign).
The downtime previously scheduled for Tuesday 2009-08-11 from 19:00 to 19:30 UTC has been postponed. Drupal.org will be offline for some scheduled maintenance on Thursday 2009-08-13 from 23:00 to 23:30 UTC (4:00 to 4:30pm PDT, 7:00 to 7:30pm EDT, etc).