Con man
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008This week, I am going to Boston Drupalcon 2008, where I’ll be joining 800 other people in a Drupal geekfest. It can’t be anything but helpful to get the benefit of sharing Drupal experiences with others, and I’m hoping to learn loads. Building the diocesan web site was a great learning experience, but there’s a lot more to learn, particularly from the design and user experience point of view.
Wait a minute. What’s Drupal, you say? Ah, first a bit of back story, since I haven’t posted in a while - it seems that having a regular, day-to-day job has put a kink in my posting:
Over the summer of 2007, I learned (and am continuing to learn) Drupal, a PHP-based content management system. It’s quite fantastic because it is open source, and because it is extensible through the contribution of numerous modules. I’ve discovered that the modules vary in quality, but the mere fact that you can build a web site with amazingly sophisticated capabilities with this system is fabulous (or, as my co-workers often say, “a blessing”).
So, tomorrow, I head out to Drupalcon to see what I can see.