Training

It's now pushing 3 AM, so I guess that means Day 1 of our training in Chicago has officially been over for a little while. No matter, I'm just winding down and figured I'd report on how things are going! The folks in attendance are all awesome and bring a lot to the table in terms of experience and personality. It's a treat to have each of them here, and I look forward to the next two days of training. Basically, our time together hasn't been without its hiccups (our server slowed to a crawl when we instructed everyone to visit the modules page at the same time... oops ), but for the most part it was a good day of introductions, hopefully very fruitful for the newcomers to Drupal and Ubercart, and a fun way to meet more experienced Drupallers looking to bone up their Ubercart knowledge. Today we managed to cover most of the basics, from an installation through setting up a store catalog with images, product classes, attributes, and the core catalog module. I covered the sessions related to the Catalog and Attributes systems and hope to distill that information into some articles before I forget everything I said. :D The day has also been quite tasty. I had a hearty salad at Whole Foods for lunch (Dear wife, I even voluntarily put raisins on it!) with 5 other guys from the training. For dinner we met up with some Palantiri at Hub 51 where I got an awesomely fat and juicy burger with fries. I got to rub shoulders with Larry Garfield and refine my understanding of things like handlers, OOP in Drupal, and models of time travel in Star Trek. After that it was back to the hotel to relax and get work done porting the UC Store Credit module and UC Free Order to Drupal 6 for use on Ubercart 2.x. Give 'em a shot! Now the day is way past the close for me, so I'll hit the sack and do it all again tomorrow.