Drupal

We've been experiencing some bad server-load at projectpier.org for the last few hours likely do to some good press from German sites that think PP is cool. We're working on speeding it up and getting the site working properly again. In the meantime you can just download the zip file of PP from Sourceforge here. It includes some decent documentation and should keep you busy for awhile.

Thanks for coming by, hopefully Apache will be more welcomming the next time you visit.

The friendly folks from Drupal consultancy Lullabot posted a nice video of installing a local server on Mac OS X here.

This is a nice addition to the installation How-To I wrote for the Windows platform. Please think about changing the Inno-DB settings (step 3) and installing PP (step 4).

You will find the XAMPP installation instructions at http://www.projectpier.org/node/224.

The website update is done and everything here on Projectpier.org should work as expected. If you find some errors, please file a bug for the website project (http://www.projectpier.org/project/issues/106).

Thanks for your patience
Roland

We will upgrade our Drupal installations within the next 2-3 days - starting with our test environment.

Please expect some downtime while we are upgrading to Drupal 5.2. We will post when we are done (so you get the info in your RSS feed).

Starting today we are OpenID enabled, meaning you can use your OpenID to log into our web site.

## What is OpenID?

From an OpenID provider web site:

Most useful sites on the web have a concept of identity. You log in with your username, do something for a while and then logout. Whether it is checking your email, writing a blog entry, or purchasing a book, you tell the site who you are at some point. Identity is a very important part of the web, and is what makes the internet useful.

Maintaining identities across multiple websites is difficult. You register at each site, choosing a different username and password. It is tedious and many sites ask for information that you have already provided elsewhere. What if someone has already taken the username you want? Most people end up choosing a username they don’t like, or simply leaving the site without registering.

What is OpenID?

OpenID is a new way to identify yourself all over the web. With your own personal OpenID you can login to any OpenID-enabled site (there are over 1,000 of them and that number is growing everyday) and identify yourself as you.