Drupal has been attracting some really great writers recently, and I have a couple of serious Drupal crushes going at the moment. The first is the blog of Shelley Powers, author of a whole stack of tech books published by O'Reilly. Shelley wrote the first book I ever bought on RDF and has thoroughly documented her initial Drupal experiences. The second is the fantastic site of Sacha Chua whose writing melts my tech heart and gives me the digital butterflies. These two, and many other recent newcomers, have made Planet Drupal very rewarding in the past weeks. And before anyone starts getting jealous about my new blog loves, I promise to still be faithful to my romances of the past (I'm winking flirtatiously at you, Nick Lewis!)

Today I released Beta 2 of the ApacheSolr module, the module responsible for search on Robshouse.net. There are some bugfixes, some performance improvements, and a usability improvement, but most of all there is a new feature. With this release it is possible to sort search results. If you search on this site you will notice a block inviting you to Sort by, and your options are Title, Author, Type and Date. Author doesn't make much sense on this site since there is only one, but I think the other sorts will be useful to people who want to find things like the first post I wrote here about Drupal.

I'd also like to encourage people who are using the ApacheSolr module to send me links to their search pages and I'll start compiling a showcase.