One of the scripts in my bag of tools to check whether a site is still up and running is content-check.pl. This little script compares the hash of a web page against a previously created reference hash. If the content of the web page has modified, this script will detect it and send an email.

You have to be very careful which page you check because even the slightest difference in the HTML source will be detected.

Is writing Drupal tests boring? Maybe. Is running tests boring? Not anymore!

There is a patch for Drupal 7 pending that introduces a couple of new hooks into the simpletest module. These hooks will allow you to listen to the progress of a test run and react to tests that pass or fail. I have already created a new testlistener module that uses these new hooks to execute shell commands.

Some examples:

Google has just started testing a new service to inform webmasters that their CMS is vulnerable to security exploits. Currently they are only targetting administrators of sites running WordPress 2.1.1 but my guess is that they'll be adding support for other versions and other platforms in the future.

Lately there has been some discussion about the number of posts (and their quality) on Planet Drupal.

Personally I don't think Planet Drupal is hard to follow because of the large number of posts. There are plenty of other high profile planets with far more posts per day.

There is an interesting presentation by psychologist Barry Schwartz at TED called "The paradox of choice". He explains why people are not better off when there is too much choice.