This month, a few of the Lullabots (myself included) have been working on one of our rare development projects. Most of our work is training, architecture, and workshop oriented stuff, but every once in a while a client that we've been working with has a last-minute need for some ninjas and we put our heads together for some custom coding work.

While short, it was definitely an interesting project and one that I think might be a first for Drupal. When the site goes live I'll have to point it out; the Treehouse Agency team is doing some great theming work for the site, and I'm curious to see how it all turns out. We built the site in phases, and created a set of custom module-managed tpl.php files for them to customize. It's the first project that's involved a hand-off like that, and Drupal 6's templating made it quite a bit easier. I'm looking forward to kicking around ideas with them about how that transition can be smoothed even more.

James and Addi and I hustled out to Penn State last week to give a cool group of educators the Drupal intensive boot camp. CCK, Views, theming... they ate it up and we were really impressed with how much they absorbed in a short stretch of time. On the downside, Addi was hit with the flu and James and I ended up stranded by flight delays... but we're safe and sound now, so all is (pretty) well.

And now? The holidays are sneaking up on us all, and Catherine and I celebrated preemptively with a nice dinner dinner and... well... An X-Box 360. We've been eying one for a while, and the sudden appearance of Fallout 3 was the tipping point. She's got Assassin's Creed and I'm making my way through the post-apocalyptic wastelands with my trusty Pip-Boy 3000... I don't think I will ever go through the hassle of building a gaming PC again. Having things just work is awesome.