Last week I received a copy of Matt Butcher's "Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery" from Packt Publishing.

The book starts off with a gentle introduction into Drupal modules, Drupal themes and jQuery. These first chapters are pretty boring if you are already familiar with Drupal development but they aid newcomers in getting up to speed.

Yesterday I went to a "A new approach to licensing" a Profoss conference about open source licensing.

Even though most of the speakers were lawyers (speaking a funny kind of English), I did learn quite a few things:

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:

"Operation in progress..." and a whole bunch of "Read timed out" errors is all I get when I try to upgrade my Eclipse installation from 3.4.1 to 3.4.2.

It is also painfully clear that the current update manager (aka the 'new update manager') has problems coping with all these network time-outs. There's no way to cancel the whole update. I'll have to sit through all time-outs (one for each jar) because the update manager dialog is modal.

Next week a couple of Belgian companies are kickstarting a number of regional Eclipse user group meetings in Brussels.

Everybody is free to join.

I won't be able to make it next week but I look forward to attend this type of meeting in the future.