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 tabbed browsing was only possible with the MultiZilla extension for Mozilla and Apple was charging $30 for a "preview" of what would become OS X.
Ah, fond memories. I think I still have a copy of Webmonkey’s 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:
