Two new sites went live last week; both are Drupal 7 with adaptive themes based on Omega. More details on my portfolio page. Both were fun to do, and had some interesting design features that let me try some new techniques; man, I wish I had started using field groups a long time ago!

The sites are for the Chicago interior design firm Bardes Interiors, and the noted author/analyst Ian Bremmer.

The new Lion OS release is terrific, lots of new features (and likely plenty of under the hood fixes we'll never hear about from Apple). But there is one glaring issue that has had a severely negative effect at our house, thie change to handling the SMB protocol. Read more »

After completing the EPIC site, Jon and I had the opportunity to build another Drupal site for Columbia University. There's a bit of a technical description of it on my portfolio page. Here are a few implementation notes. Read more »

Rest in peace, Larry Fischer. One of the most extraordinary outsider performance artists, the original Wild Man was true to himself, and dedicated to his art. Mentally ill? Sure, that's what cynical reviewers would say. But could it be that he understood something that most would never see? Even the great Frank Zappa revered him. He was also the impetus behind the creation of Rhino Records. Read more »

I was just about to release the Drupal 7 version of Development Banner a few days ago, I got an error trying to install it on a local site during final testing:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function file_directory_path() in /var/www/html/sandbox/public/7.x/sites/all/modules/cowork/dev_banner/dev_banner.module on line 83 Read more »