Well, not a gun, but certainly a web manager with extensive Drupal experience. After an excellent twelve months of de–bugging and enhancing the Drupal 6 website of the Actuarial Profession, I am looking for a new challenge. In brief, I am looking for a position as a:

Web Manager/Drupal CTO/Head of Digital/Digital Project Manager.

I have:

• Three years digital agency experience
• Five years of building and managing Drupal
• Eight years of managing technical teams

A cautionary tale for those who maintain Drupal websites and have big mouse-clicking fingers (like me).

Recently when applying a security release (6.19 to 6.20) to a production site, I came across a situation where replacing the core Drupal files at the root of the site and running update.php silently ‘failed’. Try as I might I could not get the site to accept that the core files had been overwritten and where now version 6.20. Google for once was of no use.  read more »

Creating themes for Drupal 6 can be an involved process, not least because you have to declare a number of important aspects of the theme in an [theme_name].info file. Not complicated (when you have done it a couple of times) just a little tedious.  read more »

My little blue Aspire One has been in the menders - a battery problem cured by a Bios upgrade apparently - or so the nice people at John Lewis said. As I don't use a netbook that often, it was not too inconvenient to be without for two weeks. Or rather it would not have been had not my invite to the private alpha of Jolicloud OS not come through.  read more »

This post by Dries Buytaert caught my attention. Google has announced that it is going to embrace (therefore drive mass adoption of) some of the ideas of the semantic web through the introduction of rich snippets.  read more »

A couple of projects that have come my way in the last month are offering two different approaches to solving the same business problems. Both require a small office staff to have access to applications and other resources that one might need to run a small business, however, it is all different from there on in.  read more »

One of my recent projects with Wolfstar has just launched. Sam Oakley and I have developed a Drupal based social media newsroom (SMNR) for Philips.

We will be creating SMNR's for the other countries in Scandinavia over the next few months. When the dust has settled, I will publish a technical write up of how we did it and the design decisions we made.

For the last month I have been experimenting with a remote folder synchronisation service called Dropbox to help me with my increasingly nomadic working life. I work for a charity for some of my week and for a PR company for the rest of my time, doing both across a number of offices and home. This provides me with some conundrums when moving my work as digital files, not least of which is that I run OS X at home and Windows XP almost everywhere else.  read more »

Had a little chortle to myself today, sifting through my latest e-mails spotted one from Business Link entitled “Five tips for enhanced Business efficiency”, a must read given that Business Link are there to help businesses grow and prosper.  read more »

If you have been following my Twitter feed during the last month, you might have noticed that I have been mentioning the public relations consultancy Wolfstar on a regular basis. Co-founded by a long time friend, Stuart Bruce, Wolfstar specialises in using social media and word of mouth techniques for the benefit of it's clients.  read more »