Jason’s Linux Learning Journal

I’ve been bad about keeping up this blog, but its been a busy few weeks.

I finished Using Drupal and got busy drafting a first draft plan for what NCFR’s site should do. That draft was finished this week and forwarded to a few co-workers for review. I hope to get some feedback soon to revise it for feasibility, and start formulating an idea of how much work it’s going to take to make it a reality.

A couple of weeks ago Advantage Labs set me up with a sandbox site. It’s still a baseline installation, and I kind of feel bad for not doing anything with it yet, but my focus has been on the plan first. My Drupal installs so far have been all about going in and experimenting. When I start to build on this site, I want to be more methodical and work towards crafting some usable pieces.

Its also been an eventful few weeks at work. <bragging>I crafted and implemented a SQL job to update our e-mail lists nightly from the member database.</bragging> We also turned a big corner in the process of committing to a new member database. Choosing that software was my big project last year and it got delayed. We’re close now, nothing official yet but.. fingers crossed.

I see the content plan and test site as crucial preparation as we implement the database. Planning for the next big project is always crucial to keeping me employed continuous progress in member service delivery. Hopefully two years from now it’s a reality, with something else really cool on the horizon.