Drupal

New releases of Drupal 6 and 7 were rolled out yesterday.  We're currently developing an upgrade plan for our customers.  This will be a staged release, and will roll out roughly in the following order:

1.  Drupal 7 production sites

2.  Drupal 6 production sites

3.  Drupal 6 sites using Pressflow Drupal. 

The Pressflow sites will have to wait for an upgrade version of Pressflow to be released.  We expect that's likely to happen next week.

I thought this was a very entertaining and informative talk at Drupalcon about human factors and design.  So I thought I'd share it with you.  He has been kind enough to put up a page about the talk, which includes the PDF of the slides he presented. But this is the video:

We converted the site over to Drupal 7 today.  This is a temporary look for the site until we develop a new Drupal 7 theme for it.  SO - enjoy the new Drupal goodness.  I expect we broke a few nits in the process, so please be patient.  But we'll have lots more new functionality in the next few months.

Book Review

Drupal 7 First Look by Mark Noble

Packt Publishing, November 2010

ISBN 978-1-849511-22-3

Drupal 7 is due for release on Jan 5, 2011, so this is a particularly timely book release. Now that Drupal 7 has stabilized, developers are seriously starting to work with version 7, to build sites with it, and to port their modules and themes to run in Drupal 7.  A lot has changed in 7, and it has been more than a little difficult to find good documentation in a single place for what a developer will face in making the transition.  Drupal 7 First Look is a great guide for the Drupal user facing upgrades to Drupal 7 and the issues they might encounter.

I've done a quick development job for Bobfest Northfest. This is sort of a dry run for a 2011 event, Fighting Bob Fest North.  Fighting Bob Fest is a progressive festival that happens every year in Baraboo, Wisconsin, commemorating Fighting Bob LaFollette.