Laura says elsewhere

While pingVision as a company is one of the many sponsors of DrupalCamp Colorado 2008, several pingVision people are doing presentations and panels.

Here's a quick run-down:

...is doing a BOF on Project Workflow Management and Client Expectations.

Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, UML, Process Diagrams, Wireframes, Design Comps ... how does it all fit together into a clearly defined purpose?

...has a presentation on Advanced AHAH and Modifying Forms, which gets into that lovely UI goodness of dynamic forms generation, drag-and-drop, etc. He's also doing a presentation on Using SimpleTest to Prove Your Code. Very useful to any coder.

...has a presentation on Drupal Benchmarking and Performance, covering:

- Factors that affect performance
- Measuring performance
- Different types of hosting (Shared, VPS, "Grid", Mosso)
- Techniques used to make enterprise websites scalable (ie Facebook, LiveJournal)
- Basics of Performance-friendly Drupal Module development

...is presenting on RESTful services and Drupal, and will be showcasing his brand spanking new REST provider module which provides something of a REST API.

...is presenting on Contributing to Drupal, which is about how anyone can participate in the Drupal community. He is also presenting Drupal Lightning Demos:

Rapid-fire demonstrations of modules, themes, Drupal-powered sites, fancy Drupal code snippets and anything else Drupal related that can be demoed in 5-10 minutes. These are quick, 5-10 minutes including time for questions, demos of something you've built on or with Drupal. Unless we have very few demos there probably won't be time to go looking at code so just show how it works or what it looks like.

He's also doing a session on the Drupal Community:

I'd like to talk about the Drupal community, the ways in which we are open and sponsor participation and the ways we've push people away. Because we have pushed people away. What do we do that is right and what are we doing wrong?

There is also going to be a BOF about Making DrupalCamp Colorado better, led by Kevin Bridges and (hopefully) many other interested folks. Maybe we can pull together a DrupalCon proposal?

I was going to be joining Greg Knaddison in a session where we, as permanent members of the Drupal Association General Assembly, were going to give a little update on what's been happening and attempt to answer questions that may arise, but that proposal was rated lower than the others, so it's not going to happen. No, this is a weekend to get your geek on! See you there!

Today is the last Friday of July, making it SysAdminDay, when we show appreciation for all the hardworking, oft-under-appreciated sysadmins who make our new economy hum along like a well-tuned machine.

Here at pingVision we have several people who serve in the sysadmin role. Our heavy lifter is Andy Lasda, who has scripted our deployments and been involved in most all of our hosting environment setups and performance tuning.

Andy Kirkham is another expert sysadmin in our ranks. Between the two Andys, there's no solvable problem they cannot solve. Yes, you can say "rubbish" and dismiss it as mere enthusiasm, but in this case I think I'm right.

;)

Kevin Bridges also does a fair bit of our sysadmin work and configurations. And of course Ezra Barnett Gildesgame, who is in fact doing a DrupalCamp Colorado presentation this weekend on performance tuning techniques for Drupal.

Thank you, Andy, Andy, Kevin and Ezra! And thank you to the Rackspace Fanatical Support sysadmins who've kept our servers running optimally.