And We Are Back!
Amber Eyes is back after a long hiatus.
Basically I was hospitalized in summer of 2010 and it took over 18 months for me to get back to the point where I could handle any new business.
So we are back in business! Yay!
And ... Action!
Well, I've been away quite a while again. I've been very busy however. I designed some incredible sites and learned quite a bit about organic groups, organic group blueprints, podcasts, audio, video, iTunes integration, user profiles, ubercart, and tons of hacks to make things interesting.
Just now, I finally gave up trying to upgrade my last 4.7.x site and just put up a brand new 6.x site instead. I still have the upgrade in my backlog in case I should stumble onto some copious free time ... sorry ... that just cracks me up!
Anyway, I did a bit trying to integrate one of my ical feeds with Facebook, harder than it sounds though there is a great Facebook app that is almost there ... ya get duplicates after a short bit ... but hey I can turn it on then off -- saves me a bit o'typing I say.
Look at what I just did there ... I'm suddenly typing wit a British accent! Yikes!
I started using "scrum for one" to handle the sheer magnitude of my backlog -- which is a great term if you think about it. I am also using Zen's kanban board system to organize my sprints. I am thinking of upgrading to a paid account -- it is that good.
And what else ... oh yeah ... I am using Autofocus to manage my GTD next action list -- fantastic!
It has been really hard with the economic downturn to get paid work, I guess it is a good thing that this is only my part time job. In the mean time, my next big project is converting my over 10k lines of perl script into a drupal/ubercart app. This just gives me the heebie-geebies, but my site admins are tired of double and sometimes triple entry. Sigh ... the hits keep coming ... Happy Belated New Year ... and I am out!
Long Time, No See
Well, it has been a long time since I posted an entry here. I had been working feverishly on two major web designs -- one which is finished and the other is almost finished. So I literally forgot about this blog.
In the meantime, I became an ubercart, event, nodeprofile, panel, views and og aficionado! At the same time, however, I seemed to have missed the memo to upgrade anything to drupal 6.
Yeah, I pretty much gave up upgrading anything. It became too time consuming.
I will consider upgrading my 5.x sites to 6 when and if I suddenly get some time and ... some motivation. The main problem is that I sort of burned myself out on the big projects.
I am curious. How do you motivate yourself to upgrade sites that are working just fine, thank you very much?
DC Drupal Lab Video Aug 30
I gave a presentation on my newest site (www.meditatelive.com) at our local DC meetup. I come on at about 54 minutes in, I am the effervescent black woman in glasses!
