I'm promoting a facebook fan page of my download games website, which gets 7000 uniques per day. Today, the fan page has 205 fans, there were no any promotion of the page on the website.

So, I decided to make an experiment: to put a facebook widget on every game page. In a week or so, I will post an update on how many fans such promotion can bring.

I found a pretty cool addition to Chrome browser. This extension allows users to search drupal.org and the drupal API quickly. You can use "6:keyword" or "7:keyword" to search the drupal API. You can grab it from here: http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1295403

A bit of relaxing info. A very nice compilation of funny fails:

My favorite moment is when a guy back kicks a robber in a mall. Which moment in this video did you like?

Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories - and maybe, a way forward.Read on →

I updated dtutorials.com - Drupal tutorials aggregator and added Drupal books section there. All books are tagged with compatible Drupal version. Overall, we have 18 drupal books right now.Read on →

Christmas is just around the corner. I'm sure, you've already decorated your house, time to decorate your virtual properties too. I've found a nice Xmas Icon Set (and cool thing, it's absolutelly free for any use!):

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Speed really matters, especially on the Web. Is your page loading fast? Woot, you added some cool fancy widgets? Do you know how slower your page is loading now? Can you imagine how much users you've lost because of that? Amazon lost 1% in sales because of loading page time increased just on 100ms, Yahoo experienced 5 - 9 % drop in full page traffic because of +400ms in page loading times, people googled 20% fewer because of Goog's 500ms page loading time increase. Speed matters! Be sure and watch this presentation for more info:Read on →

A month ago, I asked about which PHP framework to choose. Thank you very much for your suggestions, guys. After surfing and reading and testing and thinking and bla bla bla... I decided to stop with Symfony Framework (http://www.symfony-project.org). Curious why?Read on →

Mail problems with this blog are pursuing me. This is like a some kind of ‘mail mystery’. At last I fixed this problem and you can be sure, that your messages to me will be delivered. If you’ve sent me something before, please re-send it, cause I wasn’t able to receive your messages. Sorry.

I’m a big fan of Drupal and, actually, I don’t like excessive coding. Drupal is great platform for building websites…almost any type of websites can be built with Drupal…except services. For example, if I want to build a serious newsletter service like the Aweber or GetResponse, Drupal won’t work, because it is CMS at first. Moreover, I’m afraid of Drupal 7, I looked performance-related issues section and understood that D7 will be even more slower than D6…this news isn’t good for me, because often, I’m not happy with D6 performance at all.Read on →