At DrupalCon DC, I attended a session on the Drupal Lucene API module. Now, I've been a Lucene Java hacker for many years, and have even written some pretty sophisticated Lucene-based software. I was thrilled when I discovered that Zend had replicated the Lucene API in the Zend Framework. A year or...

An Alpha release of the Drupal Quiz 3.0 module has been released. This new version adds the following features:

• New Administrative UI
  • Drag-and-drop quiz reorganizing
  • Autocomplete question lookup
• A JavaScript enabled quiz timer
• Multiple question types
  • Long answer
  • Question directions
  • True/False

The Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) standard is an XML-based data interchange format for test questions. The standard has gone through several revisions, with the QTI 1p2 standard being the most widely implemented. This week, the Drupal Quiz team has begun adding QTI support to Drupal.

QueryPath is designed to make working with XML and HTML simpler. It can also be used to interact with relational databases. Through the QPDB extension, which is bundled with QueryPath, QueryPath can execute queries and work with them in the context of an XML or HTML document. This series of articles...

Packt has opened voting for their first Author of the Year Award. This year, Packt has published some great books, including many on Drupal. Got a favorite Packt book or author? Head over there and vote.

http://authors.packtpub.com/content/author-award

Today, SDR News posted Andy McCaskey's full interview with me. In the interview, we talk about the speed of the web, changing development methodologies, and QueryPath.

This interview was filmed at CMS Expo in Evanston. <!--break-->

SDR News interviewed about a dozen or so speakers at the CMS Expo conference. These are slowly being made available at the SDR News website.

The primary QueryPath interview is not currently posted. However, the lightening talk that I gave just before the keynote is available.

Working with incorrectly encoded XML documents is painful.

Today I encountered an XML document that did not declare (in its XML header) what encoding it used. If a document does not have an explicit encoding set in the XML declaration, it must be treated as UTF-8. But in this case, the document was...

This week is "QueryPath week".

IBM developerWorks has published Get to know the QueryPath PHP library: A fast, easy way to work with XML and HTML. The article walks discusses the design of the QueryPath library, and walks through a simple Twitter search application. The folks at OpenAmplify have...

I recently recorded a screencast for QueryPath.org introducing QueryPath development.

This video provides a short walk-through of QueryPath's core features. <!--break-->