Well the first day of Drupalcon Chicago is over and it has been a pretty good day. The keynote by Dries was interesting. Some recognition for the people that have put so much work into Drupal 7 and then onto how they plan to make Drupal 8 even better. Had some good sessions today. Got some good tips on a couple of tools to use for theming. Attended a Birds of a Feather on theming and actually was able to contribute to the discussion and help some people who knew less than me get a handle on where to start.
I attended a session on best practices for having separate Dev/Test/Production environments but it was way over my needs. As the only person working on the websites I manage, my environment is just Dev/Prod with Dev being my Mac and prod being my VPS at Future Hosting. I did again hear good things about Drush and I have to check that out.
The Drupal opening night party at the Field Museum was awesome. I don't know that I have ever seen that many web geeks in one place before. The party was very well organized and attended. After a little food and drink I took to wandering through the museum and actually met a number of people that I had interacted with only in forums and twitter before. It was very cool to meet Micah, Shrop, and Bob Christenson of Geeks and God fame. I have listened to those podcast for years now and learned much about drupal and Church websites from them. I even ran into a Drupal VIP and saw Webchick sitting at the next table at dinner. So far this has been an awesome conference and I am realy glad I came.
Time for some rest to get ready for Day 2.
