November 10, 2008

Drupal Redesign; Finding a freelance Drupal job

the parade of autumn begins today

Image by Brian Hathcock via Flickr

The Drupal redesign is continuing, and an interesting concept for the “Drupal Planet” has been released.  Called Drupal Digest, this new site created by Wim Mostrey uses a digg-style of article presentation.  

Wim also made a great article recently called “Five resources to score a Drupal freelance job”.  It’s a great read, and was apparently inspired by my prior blog post “Looking for Work“.

 

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October 14, 2008

DrupalCamp, Acquia, Video….October?!?

Trial Island Gulls

Image by ecstaticist via Flickr

So, yeah, I’m a bit behind in posts :)  Thankfully, there is a treasure trove of Drupal news just waiting to be explored!

First off, YUI is starting to make some in-roads in Drupal, the latest of which being Nick Lewis’ post on the YUI Editor module.  YUI also has an amazing base library of tiny CSS tools, such as the Grids CSS file, that offers extreamly simple cross-browser layout creation.  Additionally, YUI CSS is released under the modified BSD license, which is GPL compatiable.

Creating video-enabled sites with Drupal is a topic that seems to pop up over and over in the Planet.  Another great post with a more high-level look at handling rich media up on Learn by the Drop.

Rancity Studios has a post up about their provisioning system, Ægir.  While looked over the documentation it appears to be this system only worked for the older Drupal 5, and not for Drupal 6.  I wans’t able to find much more clairity on that, but it’s completely possible there is a Drupal 6 version no available on cvs.drupal.org repositories.

Drupal Camp Toronto 2008 LogoDrupal Camps Everywhere may now have an official logo to litter, er…I mean post all over town :) .  

There are also some tips for Drupal Camp organizers up on the Association website.  Opening a jobs table can apparently offset the expenses, nice.

Great strides are being made in Drupal patch testing.  I can’t wait to see QA playing an even greater role in Drupal’s future.  Just how different will Drupal 7 be from Drupal 6, given all the testing happening now?

Lastly, Acquia is out of beta.  The news is a bit old at this point, but definately worth mentioning anyways!  WebDevNews has a review as well.

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September 23, 2008

Drupal wordmark

Ought-o.  This can’t be good.  
Drupal logotype with splash
Drupal is getting a wordmark, and it looks very web 2.0.  It’s still going through it’s finial stages of development, but, I have some quick concerns about it.

  1. “This will not be a design by committee process – the Designer will have the final word”, that’s worrisome.
  2. Drupal is many things, but, it still doesn’t have the power to change the laws of physics (that’s coming in Drupal 8 ;) ).  The “droplets” shouldn’t be coming out of the u for no reason.  I mean, no one wants a logo that looks like it’s sweating.
  3. Why is the d a different color?  Please tell me you don’t plan on using that seporate from the rest of the word mark?
  4. the space between the d and l feels awkward, as does the shape of the letter p and a, it looks like they are they, watching you :)
  5. Learn from others mistakes.
I can’t wait to see the next draft!
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April 9, 2008

ENIGMA: Lackluster?

GMNews touted the first release of ENIGMA (the open source project designed to convert Game Maker source files into C++, that is then compiled) earlier this week. I, being drawn to open source software as I am, headed straight for the download page.

Enigma default game screenshotI must admit that from the already compiled games in their community, as well as the quality of the distribution and documentation it looks very impressive; however, I was unable to compile even the simplest game on my Vista machine. I’m not sure if this is an problem specifically with Vista support, or in the program in general.

You can be sure I’ll be trying out the next version of ENIGMA!

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