There is an ongoing debate (in my office at least) about the value of BBEdit instead of a true IDE. I tried Zend, but could never make it show invisibles or line breaks, which drove me crazy.
Well, the BBEdit folks get high marks on two points. One, this email I received yesterday:
Thank you for your previous purchase of BBEdit 8.5. We are happy to inform you that you are eligible for a free upgrade to BBEdit 9.0, a major upgrade with over a hundred new features and enhancements.
...
You are receiving this message because you purchased BBEdit 8.5 on or after January 1, 2008.
So, first, big props to customer retention and happiness.
Second, IDE-style features are here. Witness PHP function auto-completes:
Now to make it recognize the Drupal API.
The installers came this morning to start putting in the new floor. One problem -- two high ridges in the slab meant that they had to spend most of the day applying concrete patch and waiting for it to dry.
But now we have the line board laid, waiting for it to harden, so the rest of the installation can move forward. Expect big progress tomorrow...
So here is the second batch of photos from Saturday in Szeged.
Nik LePage, too cool to pose.
Bonnie Bogle of Development Seed
Eric Gundersen of Development Seed
Andrew Morton (drewish) and Jakob Petsovits (jpetso)
Adam Kalsey of WorkHabit (correctly captioned this time)
Alex Barth of Development Seed
Barry Jaspan of Acquia
Leslie Hawthorn of Google (Summer of Code)
I took a fair number of photos on Saturday, and will post them in groups. Here's the first batch -- in order of time taken, not favoritism.
Nat and Kris (catch and EclipseGC)
Christina Szrama (Mrs. Ubercart)
Adam Kalsey from WorkHabit, pretending to be annoyed.
Dave Cohen
Laura, Heather and Ju, charter Drupalgangers.
Sam Boyer of Palantir and parts unknown
George DeMet and Tiffany Farriss, founders of Palantir.net
Prodosh and Dave
Doug Green of CivicActions
Stella Power
Gerhard (killes)
That's enough bandwidth for now. More to come.
One of the amazing feats of DrupalCON Szeged is that now, less than 48 hours after the conference, the presentation videos are all online.
I did two presentations this time, so if you want to see them, here are the links:
-- Using Node Access (with Moshe Weitzman)
-- The Knight Drupal Initiative (with Dave Cohen)
Enjoy!
And I mean that in a good way.
I am sitting in a hotel room in Budapest, recovering a bit from a long week at DrupalCON Szeged. For me, he highlights of DrupalCON are always the chance to meet people that I only know by handle and reputation. Sure, I attend a few sessions (two per day, usually), but I spend more time doing things like having impromptu meetings with Swedish newspaper programming teams (see below).
I have a whole bunch of photos from the last day of DrupalCON, below are a few highlights.
The Dom, the most famous building in Szeged.
Hungary is history-rich. This is a detail from World War I memorial carvings on a gate near the venue.
The venue at Szeged; I thought this was the best venue yet, and it had the best wireless I have ever used at any conference.
The team from Swedish newspaper Dagens Industri, who, I think, tried to find me all week for a chat about Drupal, which we finally had on Saturday.
The Drupal crowd during lunch. Notice all the conversation groups.
The King of Denmark, showing "Sex, Drupal and Rock and Roll."
Alex Barth (Development Seed) and I make fun of each other for taking pictures.
Gabor (standing) and Kristof at the closing, where Kristof is playing the "Drupal Song" on a traditional Hungarian instrument. hats off to both for an excellent conference.
My wife, on the right, with Paula and baby Johan. We met Paula and husband Phillipp at DrupalCON Barcelona, when she was pregnant. The best part of Szeged was reconnecting with the friends we had made last year. The non-attending partners even started a Drupal group to coordinate events for future DrupalCONs.
Yes, we are actually in Hungary. Here's a photo from the top of Buda Castle to "prove" it.
So we're getting there on the house repairs. Some quick pix to show (among other things) the new wall color that replaces the old walnut paneling in the den and the rebuilt corner of the house.
I won't flood Drupal planet with cross posts, so this is just a pointer to my note about PBS Engage, and the details of my joining the Social Media Advisory Board.
At yesterday's open review meeting -- read the transcript -- two proposals were approved and sent on to the Knight Foundation for potential funding.
Combined, these proposals could bring $90,000 (USD) to Drupal development, and introduce new student developers to the Drupal platform.
We now have one open proposal, NewsCloud Newsroom Module, which is being redrafted based on feedback from the community.
Exciting times, to be certain, but we still need more community involvement. If you can take a half hour per month to review the active proposals, we could really start to see some progress. If you are going to a local user meetup, present some of the promotional material or print and distribute the program flyer.
