Advantage Labs The Art & Science of Online Progress

A lot of Lab Hours regulars must have stayed indoors to avoid the heat this week.  It was a smaller crowd this time around, and I got to catch up with more people than usual.  It was nice!  After a brief diversion on the history of locally-owned bookstores (Barry has the inside scoop!), we set our sights on:

Another jam-packed week at Lab Hours as the group grows!

• Don is new to Lab Hours, and has just had his inherited Drupal 4.6 site upgraded to Drupal 5. He's learning the ropes of our install profile, and getting up to speed on all things Drupal 5!. He created a reviews content type for his plays and events, and learned how to set up users to work with their own profiles. He also learned about "50 other things".
• Steve is working an image gallery.
  

This week, we're trying a new format for Lab hours, where we make a more conscious attempt to collect everyone's goals for the session, and follow up at the end to check in on how it all came out. This helps us all learn from each other, or answer questions we weren't didn't know we needed to ask. It's also extremely rewarding to watch people pick stuff up and run with it.

Here's how it went down this week: