Today on slashdot there was a post on a cloud computing shoot out. This is an area of computing that fascinates me more than anything right now. Personally i've taken a liking to Amazon's EC2 service. That being said, my knowldedge and expertise on the subject is rather limitied. I like EC2 over Google Apps because it offers developers (et all) more choice in what technoloties they wish to deploy.

What made my day was one comment in particular:

We upgraded our webmail system to the latest and greatest version of roundcube webmail. For all our clients using the webmail system you'll notice a speed increase. There were also some security/bug fixes.

I spent the whole weekend working on a Drupal project. It is a relatively simple site that a client needed real fast. I've spent the last 2 weekends (and a few weekday evenings) working on it. All in all it has been a positve experience.

I've been contemplating purchasing a Psystar Mac clone for a couple of months now. I was hesitant because the native OSX Updater didn't really work. Now i can completely scratch that idea. Apple has filed suit against them.

I decided to "soft launch" the latest version of this site today. It is still missing content but overall i'm happy with the layout. I kept everything nice and simple. This is my first theme i've coded from scratch. Thanks very much to the people behind ATCK for providing me with a kick ass framework with which to theme.

I recently began work on my first "hard core" module for a client. It will be used to display a table of foreign exchange currencies and their values. One of the biggest challenges was finding a source for the information. This is a prime example of the importance of learning about the business I'm consulting for.

I spent some time this weekend working on porting the site over to Drupal. Every day I work with the system I'm amazed at how powerful it is. I needed to add some JQuery rounded corners to a css style and it was trivial. The only part that took me a few minutes to figure out was where to add the "drupal_add_js" function. It turns out it should go in template.php.

 drupal_add_js('misc/jquery/jquery.corner.js');<br /> drupal_add_js('$(document).ready(function(){$(".box").corner();});','inline');

It was a hot and humid weekend in Boston this weekend so I needed a project to work on in my air conditioned office. I decided to migrate prolucid.com from a home grown CMS coded using CodeIgniter to Drupal 5.7.