Continuing Work and Learning in Web Design and Development

We, deCielo, have been busy with client work of late—Drupal theme design, Ruby on Rails web application development, et cetera—and I, Carlos, have not been paying much attention to personal design. That is to say, deCielo remains in its temporary skin, the Zielo Zen subtheme for Drupal.

Regardless, we have been reading about technology and keeping up with the web development world as well as we can. These recent articles were of particular interest to us:

• Scaling Drupal on the Amazon Cloud from Drupalcon DC 2009
  Is such the future of all my hosted Drupal websites? 
• Designing for Social Traction on Bokardo Social Web Design
  Important considerations in designing a web application for user acquisition, engagment and retention
• Thoughts on the Whitehouse.gov Switch to Drupal from Tim O'Reilly
  The ramifications of White House IT adopting open source software, and a few speculations on the gains for Drupal and the rest of us

Enjoy! We will keep working hard on elegant, intuitive user interfaces and rock-solid, powerful websites.