Drupal

Last night was the NYC Drupal August meetup at Mansueto's offices at 7 World Trade Center. This was the first meetup under a new more structured format, of lightening talks, and then splitting the group into newbies and ninjas. During the lightening talks last night, I gave a quick run through my current projects. I first ran down Hot Report's functionality, how I took it from designer's comp and functional specification and some of the modules and the dealt with output from the views.

It is with a lot of exuberance that I announce that http://www.thehotreportonline.com/ has been launched this evening. This project was long, and very satisfying, and a great learning experience. This project at times felt a little like it was never going to end, and go live but alas today is has been moved over to the live production server. There are some very interesting design challenges on this site, the use of the content as the actual subnavigation was interesting because the site's owners didn't always have the same number of stories in each section.

I am home after two long days of Drupal, socializing, learning and teaching. I had a great time meeting a lot of new people, and seeing folks that I met at DrupalCamp NYC2 and catching up. This DrupalCamp was a different experience for me then the last, since I knew more people, and knew more Drupal.

Today is the first day of DrupalCamp NYC 3!!!
It is very excitng and will be alot of fun, for nerds like me. Please visit and sign up on the wiki if you are planning on attending. The first day is very much accessible to all, day two will be more for module hackers, and people looking to turn DrupalCamp into a hack-fest.

After having over a month's worth of annoyance and downtime for both this site and heartyhandshake.com, I can say no more!

Well the blog had gone quiet for the last week or two, I was very busy with my current project, but in the end that wasn't why I haven't blogged. The main reason I haven't blogged is that my site was almost inaccessible, it was offline more often then it was online. I was hosted by GoDaddy.Com, and tonight in about 20 mins I moved the site over to HostMonster.Com, it took longer to upload the files and modules that make up a Drupal install then it did for DNS transfer, hosting account creation, database creation, and anything else I am forgetting.

Last evening I went to the New York City PHP meetup group, after one of the members of this group posted on the New York City Drupal group's site looking for speaker / advocates. It was fun to walk into a new meetup group, that was really just starting out, and people were enthusiastic and excited to have new people showing up. In the end about half the attendees were entrepreneurs, recruiters, or marketing folks, and the other half were technical, developer types.

Last Tuesday evening I went over to my first Drupal NYC meetup, at Manhattan Neighborhood Network and it was a good time. It was nice to see folks that I had met at DrupalCamp NYC2 back in January. There was a lot of Google Maps / mapping in general discussed, showed off and explained.

Tonight at 7pm I will be attending my first NYC Drupal meetup. This should be alot of fun, I attended the DrupalCampNYC2 and alot of the people that were involved in that wonderful weekend appear to attend this. That was my first ever technology meetup and it started off my obsession with attending tech meetups.

Hi again all just figured that after the North Jersey Web Design Meetup last night that there could be new visitors stopping by the blog, so welcome all, especially folks that listened to me rant about Drupal and standards based design last night. It was an interesting meetup, a lot of folks that are new to web stuff, or not in their words, "very technical".