Abandonia was created by Croatian Kosta Krauth on June 21, 1999. At that time Abandonia was a typical oldwarez site, with popular games like Monkey Island and Doom available for download, even though these games were still being sold in stores. The site gained a major boost in popularity throughout 2003 and 2004 as a discussion forum was opened, updates became more frequent, and the focus shifted towards abandoned games. The site is maintained by people from all over the world, including Belgium, Holland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Poland and Croatia. At the present time Abandonia has been translated into German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, Italian, Danish, Polish, Croatian, Norwegian, Slovene, Icelandic, Slovak and Romanian, in addition to the main English. Other translations currently being worked on include Hebrew and Russian. In September 2006 Abandonia was acquired by Studentis Group, a Swedish online community company. This meant that Studentis would take over the hosting responsibilities for Abandonia and support its upcoming versions [2]. In October 2007 Abandonia received a new layout and had been transferred over to the Drupal platform by Kosta Krauth and the Studentis team consisting of Marcus Johansson, Daniele Testa, Fredrik Holm and Carl McDade. Abandonia is an abandonware website, focusing mainly on showcasing computer games and distributing games made for the MS-DOS system. Abandonia also features a music section and an Abandonware List[1], a continuously expanded database of over 4600 games including information about their publishers, release dates and whether according to the staff's knowledge the software is sold, protected or abandoned. This list is a sum total of research and enquiries made by the site crew, with sources including but not limited to MobyGames, Wikipedia and the company registry at Home of the Underdogs. Abandonia Reloaded (sometimes referred to as "AR" or simply "Reloaded") is a sister project of Abandonia, with the focus upon freeware games. Every game showcased is accompanied by a set of screenshots, and reviews written and proof-read by members. As non-profit sites, both Abandonia and Abandonia Reloaded are community-driven projects. With the exception of the featured games themselves, all content available on the sites is created by their community as a volunteer effort. Both also feature a progressive system of game evaluation, in which the quality of the game is rated not just by the reviewer but also by votes of regular visitors.
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After all the time that has been spent on creating a "easy installer" Drupal is still one of the hardest CMS to install. Why? Upgrading! Upgrading Drupal to any version is a nightmare! This blog could have very well been labeled "14 reasons to hire a Drupal professional". Because much of what is required to upgrade an installation will take a good web developer, one that is familiar with all of Drupals quirks, to fix if something goes wrong.
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i18n is is a collection of modules to add multi-lingual capabilities to Drupal websites. Provides content translation -nodes and taxonomy-, interface translation for anonymous users -with the locale module- and browser language detection. Includes a block for language selection and manages translation relationships for nodes and taxonomy terms.
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The Content Construction Kit allows you create and customize fields using a web browser. CCK creates custom content types and allows you to add custom fields to them. CCK allows you to add custom fields to any content type.
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Windows Live Writer is a desktop application that makes it easy to publish rich content to your blog. It’s easy to publish to most major blog services, including Windows Live Spaces, SharePoint, Wordpress, Blogger and many others. Create a compelling blog, with your personal photos and videos, maps, tags and lots of other cool content, all in a snap. Preview before you post. Compose your entries offline, publish them later, when you get back online.
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FCK editor is a web-based HTML text editor with powerful formatting capabilities. Requires no installation on the client computer. This HTML text editor brings to the web much of the power of desktop editors like MS Word. It's lightweight and doesn't require any kind of installation on the client computer.
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The views module allows administrators and site designers to create, manage, and display lists of content. Each list managed by the views module is known as a "view", and the output of a view is known as a "display". Displays are provided in either block or page form, and a single view may have multiple displays. Optional navigation aids, including a system path and menu item, can be set for each page-based display of a view.
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The long awaited package of Views 2, CCK 2, and Organic Groups has been released! The release candidates are available for download but should be tested thoughly. There is a pre.requisite of upgrading to Drupal 6.3 before installation of these newer versions.
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The third maintenance and security release of the Drupal 6 series. Only fixes for security vulnerabilities and other bugs have been committed. New features are only being added to the forthcoming Drupal 7.0 release.
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Maybe it is not such a good idea to run drupal.org on CVS version of the software. Maybe its time to stop throwing caching and hardware at an obvious problem. Drupal.org seems to be failing at regular intervals. While I sit and wait I will be writing up an article on why Drupal is not ready for the enterprise.
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