Awakened Voice

My obsession with the Drupal platform has expanded from the occasional screencast to a Drupal guide for beginners and now a new website. I’ve been working on Learn By The Drop for a few weeks now. It’s a place to learn Drupal. I’m posting tidbits of information (which I’m calling drops) to help the average [...]

This is something I’ve been working on for a few weeks now. There are many Drupal learning resources out there. I even point to some of the best ones I’ve found in this document. The Beginner’s Guide To Drupal is meant to be a starting point for people who are very new to the Drupal [...]

I met Vineet Gupta at the recent DrupalCampNYC event. Vineet is a technology evangelist and engineer for Daylife. Daylife is a social news site that is providing application developers with tools that allow them to include dynamic news in websites by leveraging the Daylife technology platform.
I’ve been keeping an eye on Daylife since their launch [...]

The Drupal platform has always lacked in one area that interests lots of people. The inclusion of rich media (video, audio, photos) into Drupal sites has historically been achieved by node focused solutions. Modules like Video and Audio attach media to specific nodes. These modules work well for certain implementations. But the issue of a [...]

I recorded a session that took place yesterday at DrupalCampNYC4. Day one was a pretty relaxed day with a lot of networking and small groups sharing information. There was also an intro to Drupal session that was full. Some of us who weren’t in the Drupal intro session got together for a wide-ranging discussion about [...]

I’m going to be at DrupalCampNYC 4 tomorrow in Brooklyn. I’m going to learn more about this platform that is getting a higher profile every day. I hope to turn some of that knowledge around to you. Some of that turnaround will be more immediate and some will be turned around over time. I’ll try [...]

Todd Cochrane of Geek News Central has recently used his blog and podcast to rail against WordPress and Drupal. The Drupal rant occurred on his March 4th podcast where he announced his surprise at the funding of Acquia. A couple of days ago Todd took aim at WordPress in a blog post about his preference [...]

Yesterday I decided to invest €22 (about $32) to join the Drupal Association. The mission of the Drupal Association is, “to help manage the infrastructure, funding, and promotion of the community-driven project in order for it to continue to flourish.”
The money is well spent. The Drupal platform has become an integral part of [...]

They say that great things come in threes. We’ll today I received three excellent pieces of news that I want to share.
Drupal 6 has been released. This is big news for publishers. The Drupal community has added some major features to this release. Setup is easier. You can now drag and drop menus and blocks. [...]

If you are anything like me you are scattered about the internet. Its just one of those things that has happened over tim. I’ve had a personal site at www.safuto.com for many years. A few years ago I signed up for a Flickr account. Then MySpace and Facebook, YouTube, Twitter plus a couple of [...]