Darrel O'Pry --living one bug at a time...

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Burning the Midnight Oil

I just got a link to the first pictures ever taken of me doing a fire performance. This is with my friends Adam and Crysle on their Rooftop here in Brooklyn, just before they moved up state. In case people didn't know what I do when I'm not programming :).

Drupal 2007 Plans...

Dries made a note that its time to state our Drupal 2006 plans... They're sort of like new years resolutions.

How to make money, or remember to bill your customers.

I've been looking for a new billing system for thing.net. We want something we can work with from anywhere, and minimizes the work it takes to get invoices to our customers, and tracking our billable items.

Referential Integrity in Drupal W00T!!

There are some days I really get excited about Drupal. I got really excited the other day when Dries sent an email to the dev list, basically saying mysql 3.23 support will be dropped and we can start using foreign keys.

CollabSpace @ DrupalCamp

DrupalCamp NYC is coming up on January 20

CCK & Nodes as Fields....

My current project is a fairly interesting CCK based site with a lot of node referencing going on. It's core is basically a normalized structure of three different node types. (books, authors, and publishers) All content produced on the website is relevant to one of those three things.

LaCie and The Biggests S2S nightmare....

So one of my clients wanted to get a relatively solid disk to disk backup system going for a production file share running on an Xserve G5 with OS X 10.3.9. I recommended several raid products, amongst which were LaCie's new Biggest S2S Raid Array, Apple's X Serve Raid, and a couple consumer external FW drive models I like.

microformats? are they really useful on the backend?

I've been hearing a lot about microformats lately, and I just don't understand the hype from a developers perspective.

Charting out a future for Drupal Image handling...

I've somehow found some amazing people who are interested in helping my with my image/file manipulation work for Drupal. Based on concepts that have been brewing in imagecache (dynamic image generation and manipulation, automated derivative generation, image processing automation) I've started an endeavor to break this stuff into usable discreet chunks.

Just how texas are you?

I scored a 100% on the "How Texas are you?" Quizie!