The BBC reported tonight that Mozilla are attempting to break a record for the most downloads over a 24 hour period when Firefox 3 goes on general release today (17th June). Intending to download FF3, I did the honourable thing and followed the link from the BBC News article to the spreadfirefox.com website only to be greeted by a Drupal developer’s nightmare. An ‘Unable to connect to database server’ error.

It looks like the Marketing ploy for drawing attention to the Firefox site has been a little bit too much for the poor web server to cope with causing a database crash. This proves even some of the big guys (who have probably planned this for months) suffer technical glitches sometimes.

I just hope that they get this back up and running soon because it’s not the best advert for Firefox or Drupal and I’m still quite eager to have a bash with FF3.

After months of hard work we’re all rather delighted with the launch of a new website for Hydratight - the world specialist in bolted joint integrity solutions and machining services. Ok, I’ll let the website explain what that means…

www.hydratight.com

The website is just one of our recent projects built using our favourite open-source CMS, Drupal. It’s fully content managed allowing Hydratight staff to update text, images, product video demonstrations and upload documentation and literature.

It always helps to get positive feedback, and we couldn’t have asked for a bigger slap on the back…

“You all should be very proud of this site. It really conveys the message that Hydratight is a $200m + business. Great stuff!”
Brian Kobylinski, Global Industrial Lead, Actuant plc

With that praise fresh in mind, the Digital team are now working hard on rolling out the site in other languages, and extending the functionality.