I had the chance yesterday to see some of the first demos of new versions (and in some cases, first releases) of File Framework, Mail API, and XMPPClient, three really amazing new modules for Drupal. All three modules were developed for OpenBand on behalf of its clients. ...read more

I greatly enjoyed Zak Greant's keynote talk at OpenWeb 2008 on The Age of Literate Machines in which he reminded us of the many attempts by rulers and government over the ages to curtail freedoms such as the ones defining "Free" sof...read more

I spoke yesterday at OpenWeb 2008 on FLOSS and Understanding Codebases "In the Large". This was a great incentive to push forward with some of the Drupal code analysis stuff that I've been working on for the past four or five months, on and off. Slides, and links to an updated version of the semantic codebase explorer I showcased, will be posted shortly. In the meantime I wanted to share some visualizations that will be output by the browser. ...read more

Just a quick little post to remind all Drupal.org members going to DrupalCon to update the 'I attended DrupalCon Boston 2008' field in your user profiles. I noticed just now that there are only nine or so folks who have already done so. Check out DrupalCon 2008 attendees...

It's been something over six months since Pamela and I packed up and moved to Vancouver Island. Sometimes it seems like it's been the blink of an eye, but on reflection we've settled into something of a routine, got stuff somewhat unpacked and set up, met some great neighbours, had friends visit, started exploring the surrounding communities...read more