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Over the years I have become a fan of Memcache/Memcached environments for both production and development. This caching mechanism is super stable, reliable and greatly helps reduce the expense of the PHP/MySQL driven applications that I work on daily. In production it greatly reduces server load and in a development environment, it certainly increases performance.

The Colorado Library Birds of a Feather Gathering was a great success. About 28 people attended and mostly everyone presented about their past and future projects.

I am pleased to see that so many libraries are embracing Drupal with great success. Drupal continues to be a perfect match for many library needs by providing strong content management system capabilities and acting as a rapid development platform for more in-dept projects.

The Denver Public Library's main web site has won the Best .Gov Website (Best governmental website or department) award from the Westword news paper.

It was an honor to work on this project and the team truly deserves recognition for their hard work and determination.

Drupal Camp Colorado 2011 is scheduled for June 1th and June 12th in the King Center building located on the Auraria Campus just west of downtown Denver. The 2011 camp is expecting around 500 excited Drupal community members and anyone interested in Drupal and related web technologies to attend. The ticket price is expected to be very affordable.

San Francisco was an awesome place to have a Drupalcon and visit in the Spring. The technology presence of California and the Bay Area is world renouned. This produced a very large Drupalcon and I found myself lost among the crowd of the largest Drupalcon yet. The Moscone Center and surrounding area was rich in Architecture and the garden area was very scenic.

Traveling to Denmark was a great experience and attending Drupalcon made it all that much more enjoyable. I really valued experiencing Copenhagen with my friends in Drupal community. Kudos to everyone for being so friendly, adventurous and generous. The social gatherings, conference sessions and overall planning were excellent.

SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark Results

I have run the following benchmarks on the three browsers that run on OSX.

I did not test the Chrome browser but I suspect it would perform like Safari given the Web Kit roots. I also have the developer tools enabled on Safari and the Firebug plugin in Firefox.

Greg Knaddison (greggles) of Growing Venture Solutions scheduled a Colorado Library Birds of a Feather Gathering in Denver on May 14th 2009 at Denver Open Media.

I had a wonderful time meeting Library folks, answering questions about Drupal and participating in the interesting conversations which included, performance, library system integrations, theme design and multi-site implementations just to name a few.

The Basketball Travelers asked me to update their web sites, assist with streaming video content online and providing photography services for their Paradise Jam College Basketball tournament in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Drupal Camp Colorado 2010 was huge. More than 340 people attended and the sessions were outstanding. This year I stepped up my involvement by helping to arrange the venue.