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The analysis of the results from the Drupal Usability Study at Google is in progress. Garen and I have been consolidating the findings into a visual diagram that is grouped thematically. We've noticed 4 emerging themes that are helping shape how our final report will be structured.

Last week's live Drupal usability study at Google was immensely successful and I am really excited about what's to come. We will now begin the process of turning our findings into actionable items, and since so many people watched the studies, this process will be much more community involved than ever before.

Last weekend I went to Drupal Camp San Diego (SANDCamp) to present “User Experience for You and Drupal too!” with Jen Lampton. The goals of the presentation were to talk about user experience in general as well as specific to the Drupal community. You can watch our presentation here in case you missed us live.

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I am teaching a course right now to my coworkers about the fundamentals of web design. As I teach each session, I will publish my presentation slides with annotations. You can also see the topics I am covering in each class.

Drupal has a system of input filters that allows you to granularly control exactly what type of markup your content editors can publish.

If you are working with files on your Drupal website that you need to keep secure, meaning for example no one except user with role X can see

Just because I tend to forget these things, I am putting it down on the site so it is immortalized !!!

Recently I took up the idiotic task of installing from scratch an Apache web server on a Windows machine with PHP, MySQL and PHPmyAdmin. What I usually do is grab a package, like XAMPP or WAMP… but this machine was running Windows 7 and I had experienced issues with XAMPP on Windows Vista, so I thought, "oh I'll just try it myself…"

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