Mike Ryan

Just quickly dropping a couple of interesting links here, to check out:

Potential RDF use cases for Drupal

Deployment and Change Management - a Framework

Based on some discussion at last night's Boston Drupal Meetup, I'm thinking about pursing content migration as a specialty when I get my consulting business fully launched. I've dealt with that in my previous consulting life, and in the current day job went through a major (2-year) data migration project, so as I said on my blog I know a little bit about fitting round data into square rows. Some initial research to do:

Greg Knaddison has accepted my offer to return to pathauto (along with token) as a co-maintainer. So, I've got some catching up to do grokking the internals, reviewing the issue queues, etc...

From the 2/20 meetup:

Get FeedAPI set up just how I want it on this site (just subscribed to Planet Drupal so far). Check out current state of FEMP.

Also, look into applying what I picked up from my last XML project to developing a generic XML parser.

I will soon be returning to full-fledged web development consulting, under my old DBA of Virtuoso Performance. So, virtuoso-performance.com needs to be redone from scratch (probably using Drupal 6).

Update: I'm joining Moshe at Cyrve, but I still put something up at virtuoso-performance.com...

I am prototyping a collaborative knowledge base site at my current day job in Human Resources. This will document not only internal policies and procedures, step-by-step instructions on using the various software applications available, etc., but perhaps more importantly the rare (and not-so-rare) exceptions that too frequently get forgotten the next time they arise.

Since TinyMCE isn't available for Drupal 6 yet, I'm using FCKeditor on this site for the moment. So far I'm unhappy with how long it takes the toolbars to load - I'll check into the behind-the-scenes configuration options, but I'll probably move to TinyMCE when it's available.

A two-stage process:

1. Review the currently available Drupal 6 themes for the best short-term choice.
2. Develop my own theme.

Another step on the return to active web development... Setting up my books on this site, with the pathauto module enabled, I found that the book title was not being substituted in the URL as it should.