photo by Peter Coons

Thanks to the folks from UW and Brazen who helped put together DrupalCamp Wisconsin in Madison this past Friday and Saturday. There were over a hundred folks in attendance, great sessions, and Drupal cupcakes!

Here are the slides from my presentations:

I've had a lot of fun today at the Chicago Drupal Jam: http://jam.cdmug.org/

The event featured 7 Drupal 7 presentations. It has been a while since I've fired up Drupal 7 and have to say I'm pretty excited. I think Drupal 7 is really going to blow people away. Especially the Wordpress / Joomla holdouts who love those packages' UIs and bemoan Drupal's. Drupal 7 'out of the box' looks really slick. And under the hood there are some exciting changes.

A couple of notes from the day.

Q: When Will Drupal 7 Be Release?

A: Answer (From Crell), 'When it is Ready'!

I worked most of this weekend, b/w a poetry reading, a piano bar, getting a good run in and hanging out w/ rjs, on updating the Drupaldelphia theme.

crossposted: http://www.zivtech.com/blog/drupalcon-sessions-good-great-and-folks-philly

Philly Representing

The voting is over and the Drupal Con San Fran sessions have been posted. I'm proud to say there will be a number of sessions featureing folks from Zivtech and the Philly area:

Alex - Zivtech:
http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/sessions/contractor-shop-how-make-leap

Alex - Zivtech:

list from Alex's post: http://groups.drupal.org/node/51408

I and a number of folks from Zivtech and the Philly area proposed sessions for DrupalCon San Fran in April. Voting for the sessions is now open. Vote the Philly ticket!

Jody Hamilton: Zivtech
How to Change Everything and Hack Nothing

I wanted to add a feed of all of my friends tweets from Twitter. Twitter provides the feed but hides it behind (it seems like htaccess) password protection. The friend feed isn't available yet in the Drupal Twitter module: http://drupal.org/node/690658 (the patch looks fine but I couldn't get the 6--3 dev version to save any user data). I wanted a quick solution and didn't have time to debug that growing module. What to do?

I found here: http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/7336 that you just need to use the following:

One of the things I've been playing around with in the last six months is my SEO ranking. The terms I've been most interested in are myself "Aaron Couch" (I'm so modest) and "Drupal Philadelphia". Zivtech of coures dominates the latter, but this is something I've just had fun playing with.

Cross-posted at: http://www.zivtech.com/blog/using-drupal-put-more-control-hands-clients-...

We are very excited to announce the launch of the DCTV and Beyond Bullets websites.

DCTV is a very cool media arts center based in New York. DCTV's firehouse was home to Democracy Now and currently trains 2,000 students a year. The relatively small organization can boast to winning 15 Emmy awards!

I have been following the buzz about Features since the folks at Development Seed started talking up the project earlier this year. I've used Features second-hand through distributions like Open Atrium and Managing News but hadn't had a chance to dig into the module.

Philadelphia has elected a new District Attorney. Seth Williams is the first African-American D.A. in Philadelphia after a landslide win against Republican Michael Untermeyer: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/69051812.html

Seth also joins a growing list of candidates who have won using Drupal. Zivtech was proud to support Seth and is looking forward to seeing what he can accomplish as District Attorney.

See Seth's site: http://www.votesethwilliams.com