A couple of days ago I started my first Drupal 7 site for a client, and while I was doing that I was listening to the latest Lullabot podcast and Angie was talking a little about the Drupal 8 (very briefly) and about what Larry Garfield was planning for blocks, in that their will be a completely new model which will be more of a pull model instead of the current push model which is currently in Drupal <= 7. This took me back to Drupalcon SF at the Core Developers Summit and other breakout sessions where we started talking about this.

I did some work today and cleaned up my website so it is not a spam sink and updated all the modules to the latest version of Drupal 5.x. Next is to upgrade it to Drupal 6 ready for Drupal 7. Also I got rid of CAPTCHA and I am now using Mollom which should stop the spam.

I have a number of articles I want to publish and now I have a place to publish these again, and will start publishing again.

As of late I have been getting into twitter a bit. I have started using twirl to post tweets from desktop which is really cool.

I like so much that I have start tweeting while I am developing letting people know what I am up to now.

You can follow me on http://twitter.com/gheydon

Update: Fix up url for twhirl

After many months of resistance I finally upgraded my site to Drupal 5.

OK, it was not resistance, I just didn't have time to do it. So now I have done it and I am managed to log into my site after Dreamhost upgraded to PHP 5.2 and I then couldn't log in with 4.7+

Oh well it is done now, so I can move forward and do some cool stuff.

Well it is that time again, and Melbourne is having it's second Meetup.

We have taken up a kind offer from Luke Hodges @ Sustainable Living Foundation to use their premise and internet to make this a much better meetup that people will learn more and gain more from this event.

see http://groups.drupal.org/node/993 for more information and the siteup sheet so we have a good idea on how many people are going to be comming.

I hope to see a good turn out, and hopefully better than we did have last time.

I have been interviewed by Jeff Roberts of Lullabot about the E-Commerce Release and other things.

If has got a lot of good information, and it was a fun chat.
 

Next Saturday at 2pm will be the first Drupal Melbourne meetup.

See you at Joe's Garage in Fitzroy.

For more information see http://groups.drupal.org/node/87 about the time an place.

I have created a new mail list to help with the development of E-Commerce so we can create the best E-Commerce when we release the 4.7 version.

To join the mail list go to

http://lists.heydon.com.au/listinfo.cgi/ecommerce-heydon.com.au

Here we will be talking about development and processes for E-Commerce. Once Dries gets back from holiday I will be discussing more with him about getting this moved to drupal.org.

Also on freenode there has been set up a new IRC chat area #drupal-ecommerce which should also help.

 

I am thinking about having a Melbourne Drupal Meetup, I am not too sure where or when we are going to have this, but I thought that firstly I would try and find all the Melbourne Drupalers and see how many are interested.

If anyone is interested you can contact me at gordon@heydon.com.au and we can arrange a time and place.