Over the past month or so I've slowly been overhauling my local development environment. I'll save the before and after details for a later post but today I thought I'd give a mention to what I think will be the single biggest improvement in my workflow - implementing Git.

I went to my first St. Louis Drupal user group meeting last night. What a pleasure it was to meet and discuss some of the problems I wrestle with daily with some like-minded individuals in person. I've been making sites using Drupal for about 7 years now and I think these were the first people I've met who work with Drupal. I guess I'm a lone wolf.

I unveiled a new project today. I launched an updated and greatly enhanced version of a custom Drupal module that collects registration information from event participants, books them into their various categories or classes, and of course, collects registration fees.

Check the screen shot included below to see what it looks like.

The news lines are all abuzz today that sites based on the popular WordPress blogging platform are being hit by a massive SQL injection attack.

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No matter how secure you might think a site is, there will be a way to hack into it.

I've just come through a long lineup of site updates. Virtually all the sites I run have needed an update, new code freshly rewritten to foil the bad guys out there.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it. - Yogi Berra

A friend of mine called me the other day asking advice about setting up a web site for his business. His is a long-existing and successful business; but he's never had a web site. He was wondering whether he should create one.

That took a bit of work. I'm happy to report all sites are up to date running the latest software releases.

Every once in a while - on average I'd say about once every couple of months - I'll get a notice that some new security exploit has been discovered and that a new version of Drupal or one of the contributed modules I use to run sites is available.

Well here it is, the new site.

I wonder how long I'll keep it this way.

Every time I looked at the old site I'd cringe a little bit. The layout and design was based on a packaged theme created by a fellow Drupal theme designer / developer. I really liked it at first but over time ... Well it just started to grate on me.

Well, harder for me anyway.

I really enjoy just about every aspect of putting a new site together or relaunching an old one. But there's one activity I always get stuck on - creating the favicon.

Todd Parker, the promoter and race director for the Tour de Ste. Genevieve Road Race, sent me a nervous-sounding email this morning. Over the weekend he had over 250 competitors, 65 volunteers, 8 officials, and an unknown number of spectators attend the race. An event of this size simply does not happen in a community without the blessing of that community.