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We just presented at DrupalCamp NYC 10 about Building Social Networks! As promised, here are the slides.

Stay tuned for more details and some articles about this content.

Drupal has been powering great ecommerce sites for a long time, but I can honestly say that the experience has never been particularly pleasant.  Going from ECommerce to Ubercart did make things better back in the day, but now, years later, even Ubercart is starting to show it's age.

Drupal 7 + Commerce = Clean & Easy

Last spring we worked with Rachelle Guiragossian of Sweet Tallulah Baking and Catering to launch her first website. To minimize the time, effort, and cost of this we chose to build the site with Acquia's free hosted Drupal service, Drupal Gardens.

Last Friday I was lucky enough to be on the first public guided tour of the upcoming Git-powered release system on Drupal.org.  Angie Byron (webchick), Sam Boyer (sdboyer) and team demonstrated creating a new module, cloning and committing the module's git repo, and creating a new release from a Git tag.  For those of us in the development community, this was really exciting stuff.

Well, it is here: Drupal 7. And with 326 parties in 96 countries, I'd say we—the community, the world at large—gave it a celebration fit for royalty. Now comes the challenges of growth and nurture. Drupal 7 brings all the great things we are excited about--better usability, more flexibility and scalability, automated code testing, the future of Drupal 8—but it also, I believe, brings a lot of responsibility.

As I recharge my internal battery from the New York City Drupal Release Party, I feel it necessary to thank our awesome co-sponsors for doing so much to make the party the success it was.

I'm here in Brooklyn, New York at ThinkDrop HQ, having traveled yesterday to get here for the Drupal 7 Release Party by GVS, Treehouse and ThinkDrop. It promises to be such a good event that I actually crawled out of the rock I live under in Wisconsin to get here for it. Sorry, no RSVPs left.

The Importance of Website Maintenance

It is unfortunate that there are people out there that don't think that maintenance is necessary - or that sloppy maintenance is acceptable. With a vehicle, it's a lot more obvious - if you don't maintain it, it will eventually stop taking you where you want to go. Or it may take you where you do not want to go.

On January 7 2011 NYC will join the worldwide Drupal community to celebrate the release of Drupal 7. We are especially excited to be sponsoring the party with Growing Venture Solutions and Treehouse Agency. The launch party will take place January 7, 2011 from 7-10pm in the East Village at Klimat.

As the Chief Knowledge Officer here at ThinkDrop, I'm constantly considering how knowledge is being used. With the Internet growing and the Internet penetration increasing, every website out there becomes a small part of a greater whole. Every website out there wants to be the center of the universe, at least to some degree.