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126 days

At the beginning of the year I decided to join a “picture a day” group on Flickr, Project 366-1. I’m not a “photographer,” nor do I aspire to be. I joined the group because it seemed like a fun way to get myself documenting the things around me. I view it as a visual diary,ContinueContinue reading “126 days”

Docs Challenge May: Issue cleanup part 2

I know that we have done the issue queue work as a challenge already, the very first one in January as a matter of fact. We got a lot accomplished in January, so let’s do a spring cleanup. The reason I want to come back to the issue queue is two-fold. First, it still needsContinueContinue reading “Docs Challenge May: Issue cleanup part 2”

Sitting

In the last month or so I had a period where I felt things going into a bit of a tailspin. It is a cyclical thing where life just feels overwhelming, out of control, meaningless even. I spent almost a week feeling down in the dumps and like I was letting everyone around me down.ContinueContinue reading “Sitting”

Interview about Doc sprints

While I was at Drupalcamp Galway, Stéphane (scor) recorded an interview with me about not just the Galway doc sprint, but also about future doc sprints around the world. He’s got the interview up on his blog and it’s only 6 minutes long. Give it a listen and let me know about your Drupal eventContinueContinue reading “Interview about Doc sprints”

Book Review: Front End Drupal

I managed to get my hands on a pre-release version of a new Drupal book that just came out this week. The book is Front End Drupal and it is written by Emma Jane Hogbin and Konstantin Kaefer. The book says on the cover, Designing, Theming, Scripting, and I’m excited to see another book thatContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Front End Drupal”

Spring

DrupalCamp Galway was a blast

This past weekend I was in Ireland for DrupalCamp Galway. The organizers pulled off a great camp and they deserve a ton of kudos for getting things started, keeping things smooth, and pulling off a really fun event. Stephane Corlosquet (scor), Stella Power (stella), Heather James (heather), and Alan Burke (alanburke) did some really greatContinueContinue reading “DrupalCamp Galway was a blast”

Docs Challenge April: tagging pages

We’ve been kicking butt with the doc challenges so far this year. Lots of work is getting done to clean up our handbooks. I really want to thank everyone who is chipping in, even if only for five minutes. Every little bit that we do makes it just that much better for everyone. This month’sContinueContinue reading “Docs Challenge April: tagging pages”

Professional cat herder = win

In my post last week I mentioned that we had a professional cat herder, Cindy McCourt, for the Toronto Drupal documentation sprint and that the entire approach was a bit new and different for us. It was certainly different than anything I’d done before, especially in the Open Source or Drupal world. I should startContinueContinue reading “Professional cat herder = win”

A different kind of doc sprint

This past weekend (March 21-22) several folks from a variety of backgrounds in the Drupal world got together to hammer on high-level documentation issues. Angie Byron, Neil Drumm, Emma Jane Hogbin, Lee Hunter, Cindy McCourt, Todd Neinkerk, David Strauss and myself gathered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, holed up in a hotel for the weekend, andContinueContinue reading “A different kind of doc sprint”