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IT Management Podcast #005 - The Night John Slept on a Cray

Monday, February 11th, 2008

IT Management Podcast #005 - The Night John Slept on a Cray

Sounds Like a Plan - Drupalcon Boston 2008

Monday, February 4th, 2008

 Drupalcon Boston 2008
Drupalcon Boston 2008 takes place from March 3, 2008 to March 6, 2008 at the Boston Convention and Expo Center. Drupalcon is the twice-yearly gathering of Drupalers to learn about, discuss & advance Drupal, and to network with other Drupal community members.
Featuring: “State of Drupal” by Dries Buytaert and keynotes by Chris DiBona, […]

Web Site Improvements

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Over the last few days, I have been making some small improvements to my site. If you are interested, here are some details:

Lamp performance on the elastic compute cloud: benchmarking drupal

Monday, January 28th, 2008

lamp performance on the elastic compute cloud: benchmarking drupal on amazon ec2

Interview with Drupal Founder Dries Buytaert

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Interview with Drupal Founder Dries Buytaert
Open Source is here to stay and grow. Everyone should take the time understand the permanent and profound changes that Open Source is bringing to the marketplace. Open Source succeeds because Open Source offers a fundamentally better value proposition for users and customers.

I may love Drupal but it’s not easy…

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

However, this might help a little.  A new book on Drupal Themes…
Create Striking Themes for Drupal Websites using New Book
A new book that teaches users how to create themes for Drupal websites has been announced today by Packt Publishing.

2008: Web Apps I Couldn’t Live Without

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

TechCrunh has done a “Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without” for the past few years. It is interesting to see what someone can’t live with one year vs. another. Since I have just crossed my first calendar year for this blog, I thought that it might be cool to put one in […]

Drupal Founder’s New Startup Gets Funding

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Acquia has raised $7 million
I believe this a company to watch.

IBM Picks Drupal

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Using open source software to design, develop, and deploy a collaborative Web site, Part 1: Introduction and overview
How did I miss this one? Great article on different CMS systems. DeveloperWorks Rocks!

Sun and Drupal Getting Cozy

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Sun donates SunFire X4200 for Drupal.org
Sun has been active in the Drupal community and recently gave presentations at DrupalCon Barcelona and BADCamp as well as sponsoring both events. At the DrupalCon Barcelona conference, Scott Mattoon attended the scaling the Drupal.org infrastructure session (pdf). Once Sun learned of our challenges in scaling Drupal.org they were […]

What if I only had a hour to live?

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

I was flipping channels this evening in my hotel room and heard a very touching story about a man who wrote a short Xen like essay about all the things he would do if he had only one hour to live. By the way, he dies shortly after completing the essay. Then, I started […]

Drupal and Dries: A business model that works

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Drupal and Dries: A business model that works

Drupal and Second Life Integration … Drupal is White Hot

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Drupal gets a Second Life framework
Objects in the Second Life virtual world can now be more easily integrated into Web sites running the Drupal content management system thanks to a new third-party module creator released this week.
The new framework, created by third-party Drupal developers 2bits, allows objects inside Second Life to interact with […]

Yahoo Might be a Stretch Runner

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Is Yahoo now coming around the far turn and into the stretch?
Growing up in New York, I could not escape the popular sport of horse racing. I remember my uncle taking me to Belmont Racetrack when I was about eight years old. My first bet was on a horse that had the same […]

Yahoo Uses Drupal

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

This is a Tipping point for Drupal.  I am already sold on this technology however I am glad to see Yahoo open up on this.

Zabovo News

Monday, November 26th, 2007

We may be small but we have big ideas. Here are some of the things we are working on…

Chicago Podcast

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Last week I was teaching a Tivoli class in Chicago and I stopped in at a Chicago Drupal Meetup Group (CDMUG) meeting. I had a great time and created a cool podcast with one of the members.

List to the podcast here…
Matthew’s web site and resume if you are interested!!

Wordpress v. Drupal

Friday, November 16th, 2007

This is a good article on when to use Wordpress as opposed to Drupal.
Wordpress vs Drupal

I Love Wordpress, but…

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

This blog is based on Wordpress, and I think that, in my personal history book, it might be easier to use that any software product with which I have ever worked.  My perspective, however, is that of an administrator. IMHO, CMS systems are all about user facing and scalability. The real question is […]

Who’s Using Drupal

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

Here are some sites that are using Drupal.

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