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Drupal Camp San Diego 2010

Posted on January 11, 2010

On Jan­u­ary 23rd and 24th, San Diego will have its own Dru­pal Camp. I have attended the Dru­pal Camp LA last August, and the turn out was good. I expect the turnout for Sand­camp to be sim­i­lar. The event is free and reg­is­tra­tion is now open.

Sand­Camp 2010 Signup

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Drupal’s Aggregator Module: A Complaint

Posted on December 20, 2009

Drupal’s Aggre­ga­tor mod­ule is respon­si­ble for pars­ing and updat­ing news con­tent col­lected from sites in var­i­ous XML-based for­mats. Such for­mats include RSS, Atom, and RDF feeds. Dru­pal is awe­some for cre­at­ing and man­ag­ing con­tent and even has sup­port for blog­ging, forums, and user pro­files. Although the later fea­tures are not as feature-rich as a third-party solu­tion and the Aggre­ga­tor mod­ule is not an excep­tion to this. In fact, I find Aggre­ga­tor to be prob­lem­atic to the point to where it is a dis­ap­point­ment. I have found a solu­tion that works well for me.

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Created Drupal Testbed Site

Posted on December 20, 2009

I have cre­ated a Dru­pal 6 test site on my server. This test site is to be used to try out new mod­ules that I have dis­cov­ered and to pro­vide a demo site for anony­mous users to tin­ker in.

The test site can be accessed here or through my port­fo­lio.

More mod­ules and info to come.

Also look for­ward to a Dru­pal 7 test site.

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WordPress 2.9 Released

Posted on December 19, 2009

Word­Press 2.9 has been offi­cially released and can be down­load from WordPress.org. I have already updated my Word­Press install to the lat­est release within the Dash­board. The upgrade itself was auto­matic with the need for me to update and re-enable plu­g­ins to get the lat­est ver­sion of every­thing. The entire process took about two min­utes. The upgrade process for Word­Press is suburb.

For a under­stand­ing of what is new in WordPress…

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I Got My Google Wave Invite

Posted on December 15, 2009

For many months now, I have been hear­ing a lot about this new, upcom­ing Google prod­uct called Google Wave. Through­out my daily rou­tine of scroung­ing the Inter­net for use­ful infor­ma­tion, I found RSS feeds that gave some insight into what Google Wave is and what it is all about. How­ever, I never really paid much atten­tion to it sim­ply because I knew that it was by invite only, and I fig­ured that I would wait until I could actu­ally get my hands on it to under­stand its full scope. So the other day a col­league sent me an invi­ta­tion to join Google Wave. Here is my review.

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A Review of FreshBooks

Posted on December 14, 2009

I am always on the look­out for billing/invoicing soft­ware, whether it is stand­alone soft­ware or web-based soft­ware, because such soft­ware eases the pain of keep­ing track of projects. I am a spread­sheet kind of per­son, but find it too painful to keep track of projects, tasks, and clients within Excel. There are count­less online choices avail­able but for this month I am tak­ing a look at Fresh­Books.

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Upcoming Project Using CiviCRM

Posted on December 5, 2009

I have recently com­mit­ted to a project where the client is in need for a site that allows the man­age­ment of its mem­bers. The needed func­tion­al­ity includes the abil­ity to send mass emails, cre­ate events, and main­tain con­tacts for the site’s mem­bers. This in con­junc­tion with stan­dard fea­tures such as main­tain­ing mes­sage boards, blogs, and mem­ber pro­files. After some research and plan­ning, I have decided that a Con­stituent Rela­tion­ship Man­age­ment (CRM) sys­tem is a good fit to han­dle the bulk of this required functionality.

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Must Have Drupal Modules

Posted on December 3, 2009

I have been work­ing with Dru­pal full time now for five months. Within that five months, I have grown to learn which mod­ules are the most use­ful to me. The fol­low­ing is a list­ing of mod­ules that I use, ones that I see has being impor­tant to deploy on every instal­la­tion. I have also added a list­ing of mod­ules that I’m cur­rently dis­cov­er­ing. The fol­low­ing mod­ules have been tested and work for Dru­pal ver­sion 6.

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Announcment: Blender 2.5 Alpha Released

Posted on November 24, 2009

As of 11−24−09, the Blender Foun­da­tion has released the first alpha phase of Blender 2.5. This is a highly antic­i­pated release for Blender which includes bug fixes, ani­ma­tion enhance­ments, and a UI over­haul. Expect a review soon.

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CMS Awards: Drupal and Wordpress

Posted on November 18, 2009

A con­grat­u­la­tions is in order for both Dru­pal and Word­press. Each have won a Con­tent Man­age­ment Sys­tem (CMS) Award for 2009.

This year, Dru­pal won The Hall of Fame Award, the first of its kind. Addi­tion­ally, Dru­pal also won the Best Open Source PHP CMS.

Word­press won an award as well: the Over­all Best Open Source CMS Award for this year.

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