Okay, so I don't normally review books. I was approached and asked to review this Drupal book and I couldn't turn it down. Without a doubt, search engine optimization is a big factor to the fail or success of a website these days and some companies pay big money to get that no.1 ranking in Google. As a developer, it couldn't hurt to learn a little more about the subject and have it in mind when developing for clients.

The past week here in Wellington New Zealand has been quite an exciting one with LCA (Linux Conf AU) and DrupalSouth (Drupal conference for New Zealand) both taking place. We had a lot of speakers from around the world come to Wellington to present what they've been up to and talk about there passions in Open Source. In particular, I was able to meet up with Angie Byron (webchick) again who is the Drupal 7 branch maintainer and Selena Deckelmann and Josh Berkus from the PostgreSQL community. We all sat down and had lunch together and talked databases and PostgreSQL support for Drupal.

It may have taken me a whole day to wrap my head around the features API and how it applied to the workflow module but I finally got there. Today I wrote features support to the workflow module. At DrupalSouth I gave a talk about features in Drupal and about exporting your configuration into code so that you can maintain it with version control and make configuration deployable.