Fox Valley Computing Professionals

Kurt Cagle posted a great entry on his blog on O'Reilly titled "Getting Started With Drupal". I've not read the entire thing yet, but it looks to be incredibly comprehensive and his advice seems to be in line with some of the stuff Bob has presented in his previous Drupal presentations.

Just some bits and pieces I've come across this week.

Twuffer

Twuffer is a Twitter buffer. Say that 5 times fast! Twuffer allows the Twitter user to compose a list of future tweets, and schedule their release. Good for post dated scheduled content.

http://twuffer.com/

I was talking with some people at the PHP meetup and mentioned using a 3rd party zip code locator and zip code database. for a freelance project some time ago.

While searching for something completely different, I stumbled across a few sites I thought would be useful to the non-profit oriented members of FVCP. So without further ado:

There have been plenty of fee-based browser preview sites, but I recently came across a free one that works better than most any other I've tested.

Typically on Fridays, when I have time, I try to do a bit of online research and perusal to see what's new out there in Web/PHP land. I discovered two new (well, to me anyhow) items that I found interesting.

Hi all, I thought I would pass along some information about the upcoming National Association of Government Webmasters (NAGW) conference. It is being held in September at Pheasant Run Resort and Spa.

This year we've decided to let people register for pre-conference sessions without registering for the rest of the conference. The pre-conference sessions are $75 each and run for a half day. They cover a wide range of topics and I thought a few of them might interest some of you. Below is a list of the session titles: