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I am working quite hard today : -)

Typical morning Turkish breakfast at Horizon.

I was a bit premature in selecting Drupal.  In the end we have more experience with Joomla so we decided to keep using it. I will use Drupal for my own site.

Right now I am trying to recover our database for a new Joomla installation. It is taking awhile since the bandwidth is terrible today.

Well, looks like I will be learning Drupal now.  We decided to use Drupal to replace our current sites which run on Joomla.  Yeah many of you know I am a WordPress guy but for this project, Drupal is a much better solution. We are looking to add Vietnamese language support which seems easier in Drupal.

I am currently reviewing the various grid system theme frameworks available for Drupal. I like Brueprint myself. It reminds me of the Genesis theme framework for WordPress.

Wait for more Drupal updates.

Well, it is the end of my workday at Horizon but thanks to a small rainstorm, I may get wet going home today.  Not a problem, I got myself a nice Horizon rain poncho and a Horizon windbreaker to keep me nice and dry.  Arghh, I just heard some thunder.  I hope the roads are not flooded in front of The Manor.

It has been an interesting week.  I spent most of it reviewing school information systems and learning managements for my school.  We got two good candidates that we will choose as our vendors.  I had no idea that there were a lot of good educational software out there whether open source or propriety.  Expect some good posts in the future on what software we selected.  No, it will not necessarily be open source.  I found that some propriety LMSs can beat out Moodle, the popular open source equivalent, easily.

I had some good meetings with my Expat and Vietnamese friends as well.  Mel and I met for a burger at Crazy Buffalo.  I met other Vietnamese friends, students, ex-colleagues as well this week.  Got another meeting tonight with another Vietnamese friend to close a busy week.

Still, though it it TGIF here in Saigon, for most of us, we still have another half or full day to work tomorrow.  I enjoy Saturdays myself.  I can get caught up on work.  I have a paper due for a book this weekend so tomorrow I will go over the draft one more time.  No break for me this weekend…

Anyway, that’s it for today.  Sorry for the lack of pictures, I want to change the theme and framework for my blog to make it more interesting.

Have a good weekend everyone!!!