Drupal

I'm at DrupalCon San Francisco right now. Conference activities actually started two days ago, Saturday, 4/17, with a Core Developer Summit (which I missed). Yesterday, 4/18, was an unconference, which I enjoyed tremendously, especially the final session on techniques and strategies to handle multiple developers and deployment of a Drupal project from development to staging to production.

My primary interests in DrupalCon this time are:

• The deployment problem mentioned above, how modules like features and deploy can help, and other strategies when those modules can't help.
• Drupal For Facebook (a.k.a. DFF), and the challenges of writing Facebook applications using Drupal.
• All the new goodness of Drupal 7, which is currently in Alpha.
• Meeting lots of cool Drupal peeps!

I am also going to the F8 conference on Wednesday, 4/21, and will be interested in learning as much as I can about developing applications for the Facebook platform.

This will be a very full week, but I hope to post at least a couple of entries about these two conferences while I'm here.

Back in September, I presented a session at DrupalCamp Atlanta on Ubercart, the premier e-commerce module package for Drupal.  Since then, a few people have asked me for the slides. I thought I should post them in a public place so that anyone can get them, so here they are!

• Slides from my Ubercart presentation (PDF)
• Video of my Ubercart presentation
• All videos from DrupalCamp Atlanta

Thanks to all of you who attended or watched the video. I am truly flattered.

The 2009 North American DrupalCon, a conference for Drupal enthusiasts like me, took place last week, March 4-7, in Washington, DC.  With 1,400 attendees, I am told that it was the biggest DrupalCon ever! It was my first DrupalCon, and I came away from it with a very full brain.  In this article, I'll cover some of the high points that I left with.

After months of neglect, I am finally writing a new post!  As I dove head-first into the world of web consulting, I got too busy to keep this site up-to-date.  But now I'm back--still busy, just better organized.

Drupal gets considerable praise for being versatile, flexible, and open. At the same time, it is often criticized for being difficult to configure, with a large learning curve even for seasoned developers. So given the criticism, why do I use it? And why do I recommend it to clients? This article provides an overview of Drupal, and in doing so, explains why I stake my business on it.