Happy fifth birtday Drupal
Today, five years ago, Drupal 1.0.0 was released! The following snippet is taken directly from the original announcement:
Today, drop.org announces the release of drupal 1.00 after an extensive period of testing. Drupal is a full-featured content management/discussion engine using Apache/PHP/MySQL and suitable to setup a news-driven community or portal site similar to kuro5hin.org and slashdot.org. Current features include discussion forums, web-based administration, theme support, an open submission queue, content management, a modularized design, PHP sessions, user management with access control and username/profanity/hostname filters, error logging, a public diary module, an affiliate site module, backend/headline generation (RSS/RDF) and much more.
To celebrate the event, Karlijn and I made you a cake:
Making of
Step 1: buy the ingredients.
Step 2: bake a regular cake. It should be round because this will become Druplicon's face ...
Step 3: flatten the cake by cutting off the top.
Step 4: take off the top.
Step 5: create Druplicon-hair out of the top (you know, the thingy that sticks out of his head).
Step 6: put the cake and the hair together.
Step 7: unpack the m&m's. You'll want lots of those ...
Step 8: filter out all the blue ones (by eating the other ones).
Step 9: take sugar, butter, cream, and genuine Belgian white chocolate to make frosting.
Step 10: melt butter and chocolate 'au bain marie'. Add cream and sugar to complete the frosting.
Step 11: pour the frosting over the cake.
Step 12: put the blue m&m's on the cake. We used a piece of paper to get the eyes right.
Step 13: that's it! Happy birthday Drupal!
Well, I've more faith in her cooking skills than in yours, I must admit. So I guess the part you did was to filter the M&M's eh?
BTW, are you bringing a piece of this to work?
January 15, 2006 - 10:48Yeah, this is an annoying comment to make here. I re-posted the photo to Bryght with congrats to Drupal, which I hope is OK. Need to indicate what license your photos here are under...
Happy Birthday, Drupal, and congrats to Karlijn for putting up with the "blue guy" for another year :P
January 15, 2006 - 11:44I added a license. Thanks Boris.
January 15, 2006 - 18:40I really hope you have more, more, more pictures of the cake.
January 15, 2006 - 12:42All we have to do now is try and split it up between the whole Drupal community. I wonder if this is a start to an Drupal Bake-Off
January 15, 2006 - 12:56yummy, i'm up for a drupal bakeoff :-) i know i'd lose to Boris but my chocolate zucchini cake could probably beat most of the Drupalers
January 15, 2006 - 13:02Not sure there will be enough cake to go around ;O) Here's to another 5 :O)
January 15, 2006 - 13:41nice one guys. That made me laugh out loud.
Be careful though..you know what they say about eating the same colour M&Ms!!
Cheers
Dub
January 15, 2006 - 16:00What do they say about eating the same colour M&Ms then?
January 16, 2006 - 10:10That is the best use of blue m&m's I have ever seen :)
January 15, 2006 - 22:47Nice work. :D
Happy birthday Drupal!
January 16, 2006 - 01:18Step 8 is the best," filter out all the blue ones (by eating the other ones)."
January 16, 2006 - 01:47I noticed you scorched the outside of the cake a bit and didn't melt the frosting thru hehehehe still looks great.
If i send you my address in Guyana, South America will you FedEx / DHL me a slice??? ;)
best CMS i ever used
Regards,
January 16, 2006 - 06:32underpressure
Seems like I'll be getting me some of that cake. It looks delicious. Great job Dries and Karlijn!
20:30. Deal? Deal.
January 16, 2006 - 10:22I like the things you are doing.@:
Happy Birthday to Drupal!
The cake must taste too sweet by the way...
January 16, 2006 - 12:29That's okay. Drupal is, after all, totally sweet.
January 16, 2006 - 17:38Yay :) :) :) Drupal cake. I am drooling.
January 19, 2006 - 04:24Can you put this up in the site recipes section of drupal.org?
January 20, 2006 - 07:11That is one drupalicious cake ... yummy !!!
January 31, 2006 - 18:47Wish I could have a piece of it.
Wonderful work.
Wonderful!
May 5, 2006 - 05:12It's really pretty.I think it must be delicious......
Next time you need help "filtering", I'm in! ;-)
August 6, 2006 - 18:39Though step 8 (eating the other colors) is fun, it can be shortcutted.
October 27, 2006 - 19:25Hi Dries, I missed posting this story a while back, but I wanted to wish Drupal many more "sweet" birthdays! We're on track to contribute more to Drupal this year (2007), so I'm glad to be a part of such a wonderful growing CMS community.
All the Best!
February 22, 2007 - 21:48Brian
This is another drupal cake :P
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mainardi/2896234754/
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