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The folks at pingVision have posted their case study for the Popular Science Magazine website on drupal.org.

Jeff Miccollis and Young Hahn with DevelopmentSeed gave an excellent presentation at DrupalCon 2008 titled: Creating Custom Workflows for Drupal Apps: taking advantage of core hooks and context. The primary focus of this session was explaining the various methods of maintaining "context" throughout a Drupal site.

Addison Berry from Lullabot has posted the slides from his DrupalCon 2008 presentation: Contributing to Drupal: A guide for everyone.

Woot!

John VanDyk, author of Pro Drupal Development, and longtime Drupal developer/guru, has posted the slides and video of the presentation he gave at DrupalCon on triggers and actions. It was great presentation from one of Drupal's founding fathers. Though centered around Drupal 6, many of the basic principals can be applied to Drupal 5's Actions module.

Session: From Drupal Newbie to Drupal Ninja
Time: 9:00am (EST) 03/03/2008
Presenter: Chad Williams (hunmonk)

This presentation was targeted primarily at the Drupal newbie, and was mostly a "tips & tricks" session. Here are my notes from the session:

Bob, Jared, and I just got to Boston for Drupalcon 2008! All week, we'll be checking in and giving updates about what we've learned. If you're in town for the convention, send me an email chayner {at} centresource.com and we'll try to hook up for lunch!

For more information on the conference, check out http://boston2008.drupalcon.org

In my last post I talked about the possibility of Doctrine being in the core of Drupal 7. After some thought, and a little bit of work, I realized this is not necessary. Doctrine can be used in Drupal now with a custom module I wrote. It comes with schema files and models for the drupal core database schema so you can begin using Doctrine models immediately for interacting with your Drupal website database.

The Drupal 7 development has started in the last couple of weeks and the Doctrine bug has been planted in the ear of the Drupal development team. Hopefully the power of Doctrine can be recognized and utilized to take Drupal and Doctrine both to the next level. You can find the discussion between myself and "chx" here.

At CentreSource, we do everything we can to stay connected to the community around us. Recently, a great opportunity arose for us to donate our time to work with Ellie's Run for Africa (ERFA), a 5k Race and Family Fun day that is taking place in Nashville at the end of June, that has an amazing story behind it.