In preparation for an eventual upgrade to Drupal 7, today I practiced my Drupal development skills by updating this site from Drupal 6.17 to 6.20. Sure, it was just a minor update but it was also a necessary prelude to the big upgrade to Drupal 7 which I hope to tackle next month. As always, the Drupal documentation made the update process very straightforward. It was really just a matter of backing up the database and all of the Drupal files, and then copying the new files over to the server and running "update.php."

The more I work with Drupal, the more impressed I am with its features, flexibility and power. In just a few short weeks I've been able to create an entirely new website that has an awesome array of cool features. And there's a lot more new functionality that will be coming to this website in the near future, thanks to the availability of numerous user-contributed Drupal modules.

This will be the 6th year in a row that I've attended CFUNITED, the annual conference for ColdFusion developers. Looking forward to learning more about object-oriented ColdFusion and OO frameworks such as Fusebox, Mach ii, etc.