Web Development

Drupalcamp Colorado 2009 has come and gone. The event garnered over 200 participants - at least half of which came from out of State. Over 40 sessions (if you include BOFs and the opening and closing sessions) occurred over the two days ranging from pure business to the highly technical. Ubercart was heavily presented with Ubercamp partnering with Drupalcamp. The camp was followed by a media sprint.
pingVision presented in quite a few sessions:

DrupalCamp Colorado 2009 is happening this weekend in Denver. (Registration is still open!)
And we at pingVision have been preparing several presentations.
For programmers and developers wanting to get into Drupal development but are unfamiliar where to start, Lead Developer John Fiala is presenting the basics of Drupal Module Development:

Last weekend, MIT was host to a somewhat unusual Drupal event:
Design4Drupal, where some 160 designers and interested developers gathered to talk about designing and theming for Drupal.

Recently I wondered if viewing a node via its internal path could be disallowed, making it accessible using a path alias only. With hook_menu_alter(), a router item's page callback can be changed to our own function that will check if the requested path is internal or not.
<?phpfunction hidenid_menu_alter(&$items) {  $items['node']['page callback'] = 'hidenid_check';  $items['node/%node']['page callback'] = 'hidenid_check';  $items['node/%node/view']['page callback'] = 'hidenid_check';}

Drupal is not generally taught in schools. Open source is largely off-topic in universities. Many, if not most, of the leaders in open source, including Drupal, are self-taught experts who bootstrapped their learning process. This doesn't mean they aren't bona fide computer scientists and programmers. On the contrary. But Drupal books aren't on many syllabi.

This week we learned that we won a Gold Horizon Interactive Award for Pregnancy.org. The Horizon Awards hold a special place in our heart as our first award we ever won was a Horizon Award. This one makes our eighth Horizon award – and third gold (the others were PopSci and BlogHer.
Our thanks go out to the Horizon judging committee!

For the third year in a row, Drupal has won a CNET Webware 100 Award, which is, we feel, a strong indication of the power, resourcefulness and creativity of the Drupal community.
Congratulations, Drupal!

Related: 

Drupal CMS wins CNET Webware 100 again!

Since 2001, Pregnancy.org has been an informational and community resource for women about fertility, pregnancy, labor and child care. In November 2008, Pregnancy.org was relaunched in Drupal 6, with a new design and development by pingVision.

Last week we moved into new offices...

...upstairs from Techstars (@techstars) [who can nourish our minds]...

A couple weeks ago, Matt Tucker and I gave some folks at our local Drupal users group a preview of our recently contributed theme pack called Studio. We're announcing the official 1.0 version release of the theme and we felt it would be interesting to provide some background.
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