Webmonkey, once a premiere resource on the nuts and bolts of web development, is back after a 6 year hiatus and I’m pretty excited about it. One reason is partly nostalgic, of course, since this is the place where I learned about web safe colors, made my first favicon and got serious about PHP/MySQL development. Remember, this was back in the days when Apple was charging $30 for a "preview" of what became OS X and tabbed browsing was only possible with the MultiZilla extension for Mozilla.

Ah, fond memories. I think I still have a copy of their HTML character entity cheatsheet somewhere.

Another reason I’m excited is that Webmonkey recently interviewed Acquia’s founders, Dries Buytaert and Jay Batson. Most of what’s discussed, such as Drupal’s history and future and how Acquia was started, has been already been said before but I did find it interesting that in the interview, Jay alludes to how Drupal’s "Community Plumbing" slogan may soon be on its way out:

They also got a good boost because Drupal 5 had as its tag line "Community Plumbing." At that moment in time when community-based sites were becoming more important, here was this system marketing itself as being optimized for that.

I find it noteworthy that this quote associates "Community Plumbing" with an older version and another time. It seems to me that there’s a growing consensus that the current slogan is outdated (to say the least) and I invite anyone in the Drupal community concerned with the Drupal brand to participate by reading and adding to the Slogan Proposal and Drupal Positioning Statement wiki pages.

I for one am looking forward to the days that come.