I first heard about features at DrupalCon DC and while it seemed like a nice idea, I couldn't really see how it could be practical to someone who can already write their own modules. Of course, I thought exactly the same of views when I first learned of it too.

If you build Drupal sites and you've never built a feature before, it's about time you gave it a go! This post will walk you through what a feature is and how to go about building one. In a later post I'll show you how to make your feature re-usable and why it's important.

Building the Wedful platform took me about a year of pain, tears, blood, and triumph (not necessarily in that order) and since then I've been contacted by several people going through the same difficulties themselves with putting together their own Drupal platform. Wedful is designed specifically for couples planning their weddings to be able to easily launch a website and manage the details surrounding their weddings online, so we needed to be able to easily manage hundreds (hopefully tens of thousands someday) in a scalable manner. Some of the people I've spoken to have been looking to build niche products for the restaurant industry, hotel industry, and even one with a similar concept to Drupal Gardens.

Title: Sukhumvit Road
Author: Scott Hadfield
Taken: 24 Aug 2011 - 10:36am

We arrived in Thailand safe and sound almost exactly three weeks ago. Amazing how time flies! We spent our first week in Bangkok shopping for clothes (since we brought almost nothing here) and seeing parts of the city that we hadn't explored last time we were here. Bangkok is really an amazing city, insanely busy, with delicious street food everywhere, and amazing (and quite clean) public transport.

Title: Train from cusco to machu picchu
Author: Scott Hadfield
Taken: 9 Jan 2009 - 10:29am
Along the train ride between cusco and machu picchu

As per usual here, we were running on Thai time. The train was scheduled to leave at 17:05, it was now 18:05. It didn't matter though as we had nowhere to be. Our train was to arrive in the town of Surat Thani in southern Thailand at 4:30am but the first bus to the port didn't leave until 6:00. From there we'd hop on a 90 minute speed boat and then try to catch a taxi to the opposite side of the island and find a place to stay for the night. We'd use almost all modes of transport to get us from Bangkok to Koh Samui with the exception of flight.

Title: Shop signage
Author: Scott Hadfield
Taken: 25 Oct 2009 - 2:20pm

I've never been very skilled at learning languages (well, non-computer languages). I "studied" French for seven years in elementary and high school, the end of which I had memorized a few words for different types of clothes and body parts, how to conjugate verbs, and how to ask to go to the toilet, s'il vous plait. After seven years I don't think I could speak a complete sentence. In elementary school I was "diagnosed" with having some kind of auditory processing problems which means that it supposedly takes my brain longer to turn raw sounds into meaning. In grade 5 I even got a detention for not being able to respond to a phrase from my teacher that I really should have known (I actually did know the answer, I was just too afraid to speak). But it was about this time that I completely gave up all hope of ever being able to learn a new language.