I was privileged to give a introductory talk at the jQuery Conference last weekend on April 24th. Below are my slides from the talk.

I really enjoyed giving this talk, and received great speaker feedback up on Speaker Rate. If you attended the talk, please head over and provide feedback, I really appreciate it. Read more »

The topic of this blog post is not the typical sort of content that I post on, but I felt compelled. Feel free to tune out if you're not interested in anything non-technical. The purpose of this post is to express appreciation to Paradise Heating and Cooling and is the least thing I could do to express that appreciation and send a little SEO love their way. Read more »

After several months of development, I'm excited to announce that QDrupal for Drupal 6 has just gone into BETA. You can find the download on the new home for QDrupal at Drupal.org.

http://drupal.org/project/qdrupal

This release is the culmination of effort from several people, specifically Cliff Meece.

As this release settles, I will begin work on documentation for this release. Here's a quick overview of some of the exciting new features:

• QForms are now Drupal Node's
• QApplications now provide a way to define QDrupal settings right through your browser
• You can codegen right through your browser

http://drupal.org/project/qdrupal

43 Folders had a great post this morning about an article from the New York Times regarding email overload.

What I find interesting is that this idea is just now going mainstream. Having listened to Merlin Mann's Inbox Zero mantra for a while now, and Timothy Ferriss' opinions about attention management, I am glad to see this catching on. Email overload is one of the biggest sources of lost productivity to businesses today. Thankfully, it's an easy problem to fix.