Developer Karma

I am often presented with visions of poor and haggard open source enthusiasts walking the streets in disarray and varying degrees of sanity.  These programmers, artists and content managers could be working for upstanding corporations earning an honest dollar, instead they sit around working on projects with no monetary value.  It's bad enough that we have hordes of these people already but sadly they are training a new generation of open source zealots to tread in their meaningless empty footsteps.

How many times have you been coding something and it doesn't work even though you've used an api/function call hundreds of times before?  I ran into this the other day with node_load().  For those of you use the node_load function, can you tell me how many arguments it has and what those arguments do (without looking at api.drupal.org?  I know, some gurus can, but can the average module developer do it?)

Have you ever wanted to give money or services to a charity but you just didn't have the time or the cash to be able to do that?  Well, now you and I have no excuses since CommuniCause has now launched and all you have to do is either enter the information on the website or tweet a special hashtag.

CommuniCause is "a campaign that gives America the opportunity to vote online for their favorite 501c3 non profit to win a $25,000 social media makeover" which I think is a great idea since most charities I know are struggling just to keep things going and barely have any type of web presence.  By winning this type of contest it allows a charity to get into an arena they possibly never would have been able to enter and really get their name and message out there.

I need your suggestions of charities since I don't know which charity I should nominate/vote for (I hardly know of any charities).  Could you, my readers suggest charities in the comments as well as vote on CommuniCause?  Once I choose the charity, I'll add the CommuniCause banner to this site so everybody can see it.

Just wanted to let you know that there's a new DrupalEasy podcast (#3) now out there.  If you haven't listened to  our podcast I'd highly recommend that you do if you do any work at all with Drupal (or if you're interested in working with Drupal).  We cover, Drupalcon, SXSW, Setting up a Drupal Theme with Artisteer, the 2009 Google Summer of Code and of course, our module picks of the week!

Check it out, it's free and no animals were hurt in the recording of this podcast.

I'll be leaving for a few days to attend this years US Drupalcon with both the Mindcomet crew and DrupalEasy crew!

If you happen to see me and you follow my blog, twitter or podcast say "hi" (I'll be the guy wearing some type of funny hat with glasses and a soul patch). 

So you want to create a DrupalCamp by where you live eh?  Great, running a camp isn't actually as hard or crazy as you might think.  Here are my lessons learned from my experience in co-running the first Florida Drupal Camp for the Florida Drupal Group (I get a nickel every time I mention Florida or Drupal).

I'm proud to announce that the first DrupalEasy podcast has been released.

Mike, Ryan and myself end up talking about the Drupal Association election, Drupalcon Europe 2009, Drupal + Mobile, Plug in Manager and Fields in core among other things.   I think it's worth a listen even if you aren't a hardcore Drupal person since we try to keep the content at a mid-level but I'm obviously biased.

Florida Drupal Users Group is happy to invite you and your Drupal interested friends to the first Florida Drupal Camp on Saturday February 7th from 9AM to 5PM yes a full day of Drupal love. What could be better than enjoying a day of Drupal in sunny Florida in the winter time?

This event is open to everybody from novices all the way up to experts.  Even if you've never heard of Drupal, you're welcome to come.

Why would you as professional web developer ever want to make it easier for your clients to leave you?  Some of you might have thought of this when Acquia announced their Drupal service lineup and it might be somewhat true but that's not the entire story.

Congratulations to the Mindcomet team for launching two great new sites, Loch Haven a Florida Hospital site and Healthy Tuna, a site about education and cooking all things tuna  (Healthy Tuna is a sister site of About Seafood).