Lee Raney's blog

We are helping organize the upcoming DrupalCamp Dallas coming up in Dallas in July.  Location TBD and as far as we know this is the first ever DrupalCamp in the state of Texas!

Some of the topics people are saying they want to hear about so far include...

• Semantic Web

• Agile vs. Waterfall

• Theme Development

• Development Processes

• JQuery

• Module Selection

• Understanding Organic Groups

I have been a project manager on website and software projects for much of my career over the past 12 years, but only last year became aware of "agile" methodologies.  Success of companies such as Google have helped make project management using more flexible agile methods more popular, especially with open source software and web development.

On our recent project MyFaith.com, we made extensive use of the YouTube API to allow users to  upload videos from MyFaith into their individual YouTube accounts and also add videos to MyFaith from their existing YouTube videos.  Why re-invent the wheel when YouTube already provides free video hosting and has over 100 million monthly users? 

Drupalcon Rocked!  Randall and I talked with our friends at LevelTen about some of the highlights from Drupalcon 2009 on this podcast.  Listen and find out the latest Drupal has to offer including OpenCalais, Solr, and other highlights from the conference.