DrupalDownunder is just 2 months away and is expected to be a sell-out event, with Dries Buytaert (the Drupal project lead and founder) presenting a keynote and attending. The keynote speakers are: Dries Buytaert, Drupal project founder and lead New Zealand's own Josh Waihi Josh Koenig Allie Micka DrupalDownunder is on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 January 2011. Registrations are now open at drupaldownunder.org/registration. The earlybird price is $132 AUD.

Perhaps I am too critical or my expectations are too high. In any case I was disappointed with Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6. It may be somewhat useful for Drupal beginners seeking an introduction, general guidance or even basic help, but it lacks the detail and usefulness beginners are likely to need to get tasks done early on. I would expect most Drupal beginners to require more complete and comprehensive resources than what this book provides.

Perhaps I am too critical or my expectations are too high. In any case I was disappointed with Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6. It may be somewhat useful for Drupal beginners seeking an introduction, general guidance or even basic help, but it lacks the detail and usefulness beginners are likely to need to get tasks done early on. I would expect most Drupal beginners to require more complete and comprehensive resources than what this book provides.

Drupal 6 Themes by Ric Shreeves on Packt Publishing is a great resource for newbie Drupal themers. Themers who are not from a programming background will find it especially useful since it starts with the basics and builds up to more complex yet powerful techniques such as hook_form_alter(). read more

Drupal 6 Themes by Ric Shreeves on Packt Publishing is a great resource for newbie Drupal themers. Themers who are not from a programming background will find it especially useful since it starts with the basics and builds up to more complex yet powerful techniques such as hook_form_alter(). read more

Linux Conference Australasia (aka LCA, linux.conf.au) will be in Wellington 18-23 January 2010 – 6 and a half months from now. This presents opportunities for the NZ Drupal community to; Promote Drupal in the wider FLOSS community (which is good for business) Run a DrupalCamp/Conference; which allows attendees to combine expenses if attending LCA, and organizers to share venue, admin, financial and other resources with LCA. Just hang out and drink & talk Drupal!

Drupal Downunder 2012 is just 2 months away and session proposals close this Monday! The second Drupal Downunder will be Australasia's biggest Drupal event ever, with Dries Buytaert returning for his second DrupalDownunder, and other keynotes from Dimitri Gaskin and Gian Wild. And tonnes of other great content, tutorials and sessions by other Drupalistas from Australia, New Zealand and beyond. If you have been thinking about submitting a session proposal about that really interesting project, client or code you worked on recently, or have some special skill set you want to share with the Drupal community, get your ideas into words this weekend and submit a session proposal by this Monday 14 November to have it considered for the programme.

cache_get() returns $cache objects even if the cached item is stale (expired). The cached data will not be rebuilt every hour in the following example: <?php /** * Builds complicated data for the monkey grip. */ function custom_monkey_grip_data() {   // Return the cached data   $cache = cache_get('custom:monkey_grip');   if (!$cache) {     // Some expensive processing to build the data.     $data = complicated_recursion_and_loops_on_lots_of_data();         // Cache the data and rebuild it every hour

I'm going to be in Auckland this Friday and am meeting up with some other Drupalers to drink, dine and talk Drupal. Please see my post on groups.drupal.org for more details and to let us know if you're coming.

Drupal NZ is launched at Drupal.net.nz. It needs content and people to configure the modules etc... Go sign up!