A little while ago I got interviewed by Ben Finklea who produces the SpryDev SEO Podcast.

One of the Drupal modules that I maintain is the Pathauto Module which automatically creates user-and-search-engine-friendly aliases for your Drupal paths.

Drupalcon Barcelona is coming up at the end of September. We're getting past the call-for-attendees stage and towards the call for presentations (here are Dries' ideas for sessions - see if you can present one). Sessions will be organized based on the most votes, so be sure to visit the Session list and vote for your favorites.

We've been in hiring mode for a while now. As most any Drupal Service provider will tell you, there's big demand for people and companies that have an expertise in Drupal. There's also a bit of a shortage of people to satisfy that demand. We've decided on a strategy of hiring great people regardless of Drupal experience and then getting them plugged into the "Drupal way" of doing things as quickly as we can.

Performance and Scalability Theory

Back during the Open Source CMS Conference (discussion on pingV.com) we attended a fundraiser/seminar hosted by Lullabot about Performance and Scalability. The presentation was really great. Some of it I knew already, some was new to me, but seeing it all presented together really helped solidify the concepts in my mind.

The Performance Need

This morning I woke up to a very nice bit of news: Drupal 5.0 has been released.

We use Drupal for lots of our projects and are active contributors of patches and modules for Drupal. So it's really nice when the latest version with all the new features and bugfixes is released. The release announcement lists all the great new features by the categories of Usability Improvements, New Features, and "For developers". And being a firm focused on design and development, we're excited by all three.