Teach me not to check IBM's website for a bit. Dries has mentioned the hosting and deploying articles. These are good for an introduction to using VMWare server and other considerations for hosting your site. Of more interest is their article on Using taxonomies in Drupal. A nice overview on various ways to use and leverage taxonomy capabilities in Drupal.

A friend of mine uses Drupal for his personal site. He seems to have had a lot of fun with it (which is good as he sites next to me at work and I talked him into using it). So when his wife mentioned a desire for a site to offload phone calls from parents about work assignments he asked what Drupal modules I thought would be useful. Based on the inital description I tossed out some module ideas and he took it from there. His server suffered a slight(large) hardware failure right before launch so we salvaged backups and moved it to my box.

I got him to document what he did ala IBM Developer works style from a hobbyists perspective.

So, the first Drupal 5.0 Beta release is here. When people ask what's changed some are referred to the Changelog. This is an important tool in tracking major changes in Drupal versions. But for those not following along it really only contains a brief snippet of what has changed. What has changed under the hood is pretty substantial and this time we have pretty new default theme as well which makes for a much more dramatic first impression. To get here a lot of work in the past two versions has happened to pave the way.

I'm going to run through my memories of what the various lines in the Changelog.txt may mean for the average site builder.