Currently, using the PingThis module, will allow you to add a link to your posts that will give yourself along with visitors to your site the ability to quickly share posts by using Ping.fm. There couldn't be a better way to allow users to promote your page(s) than by simply posting it to ALL of their social networking sites at once!!

The ShareThis module is developed for Drupal 6 and future updates/versions only.

By using the sharethis module, you are able to implement the ShareThis social bookmarking utility on selected node types. (http://sharethis.com) The code for this project was based on the original share project for Drupal 5.x. The code for this project has been trimmed down to only work with the ShareThis system, and not require any additional modules to work properly.

The himpressive theme is the new core for all of my Drupal sites. You can find information on the Himpressive theme here, as it has it's own section on the site. A screenshot is provided, but you are on the site using the base version of himpressive, so just look around and you'll get an idea how the theme looks!

This project encompasses my resume update. I redid the site theme from a horrid Flash site that was about 3 or 4 years old about a month ago. It was a quick 24 turn-around from concept, photoshop design, and then cut up into a Drupal theme.

Review Introduction

The following is a review of Pro Drupal Development (second edition) by John K. VanDyk. I received a free copy from Apress by mail on the 25th of August. I was hoping to get it a few days before the release, but snail mail got it here on the day it was slotted for official release so I felt a little less special although I still ripped into the packaging like an 8 year old at Christmas!

I was a big fan of the original book by John K. VanDyk and Matt Westgate, and that book helped guide me through many of my first Drupal sites. That book was an invaluable resource in turning me to the Drupal revolution, as now all of my personal and corporate sites are based in Drupal.

The first thing I read in Pro Drupal Development (second edition) was the foreword by Dries Buytaert, the Drupal founder and project lead. One funny, but true item that stuck out in the first paragraph was:

Pending information submission.
Project can be found at http://himerusinc.com

UPDATE: This module has an official release thread here at himerus.com. Further comments should be submitted there.

Earlier today, I got an email from one of the Apress editors asking for a quick review of a proposal they had received on a title regarding jQuery and Ruby on Rails. It ended up opening up some communication again regarding my potential to autor a title on either jQuery or maybe Drupal depending on what's on their current list of needed titles.

After sending my review back in, I was offered to pick out a title I'd like, and my favorite Apress editor would send it over to me! So of course, the first book I thought of was Pro Drupal Development, the second edition, which updates on the first edition, and covers Drupal 6 topics.

I couldn't be more excited to get my hands on this title, and it wasn't until later today I realized that it's not even set to release until the 25th of this month, but my copy is in the mail today!

So after some thought & persuasion(s), I decided to rework a few elements to the new corporate design for Himerus Inc. The sticky notes were cool when putting together the old version of the site, but not up to par with this re-design, so they had to be re-thought.

After recently doing a complete overhaul of JakeStrawn.com, and this new himpressive theme here at Himerus.com, my corporate site was lacking some luster that in originally had in concept, and needed a fresh new design.