Category: Tech

The top priority in the Drupal documentation roadmap that was published earlier this summer was to reorganize the information architecture (IA) of the handbooks to make them easier to use and maintain. Becca Scollan volunteered to take the lead and she has been researching and building out a plan of attack. We are now at… Continue reading Drupal handbooks IA work begins

Drupal 7 is coming and it has a ton of UI changes with the D7UX lovefest that has been going on, in addition to a some very different APIs. This time around it’d be extra nice if we had up-to-date documentation when our beloved Drupal 7 hits the streets. Few want to write it, but… Continue reading Drupal 7 docs depend on you

A few weeks ago I posted a draft Drupal documentation roadmap on Drupal.org. In that post I attached the full roadmap of goals, but focused on the first two we are tackling: a new information architecture (IA) and recognition/reward for documentation contributors. We had a meeting in IRC shortly after and we discussed a number… Continue reading Need some help: surveys, interviews and recording

Too many times I have written a post, got it ready to go, set up my Twitter module to tell the world, and then right after I hit submit, I realize that I forgot to add the Twitter hashtags that will carry my tweet to glory. It occurred to me that maybe I should give… Continue reading Drupal Twitter hashtag hack

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 needs… Continue reading Docs Challenge May: Issue cleanup part 2

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 event… Continue reading Interview about Doc sprints

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 that… Continue reading Book Review: Front End Drupal

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 great… Continue reading DrupalCamp Galway was a blast