Olly Mardling, the founder of one of my clients - WhatTalent.com [new window] - sent over an interesting blog post today. He has just completed an application to Seedcamp [new window], the European angel investment guys.

One of the team there made this post showing word clouds of the answers to some of the application questions:
http://blog.seedcamp.com/2008/08/2008-application-zeitgeist.html

So, you want to have many websites with many different content sets but a shared set of users, roles and sessions? Not a problem. There are many ways to skin the Drupal multi-site cat.

I was installing a fresh copy of Drupal on Ubuntu this morning when I hit upon a problem. Half way through the installation script, Drupal kept throwing this at me:

PHP Warning: mysqli_error() [function.mysqli-error]: invalid object or resource mysqli

Followed by the equally useless:

Unable to connect to database server. The MySQL error was: .

Well thank you very much, Drupal. The message might as well just read "Something broke!"