theming

I just finished my presentation on PHP at the London, Ontario Podcamp 2010. There's probably not much here for seasoned PHP hands, it's oriented towards someone who wants a basic introduction, especially oriented towards theming a content management system. If you're just getting started and have a question, be sure to put your PHP question in the comments below and I'll do my best to help you out.

Last Friday I gave a repeat presentation of my talk on Theming Fundamentals, first delivered at the 2008 Toronto DrupalCamp. Because it was intended for an audience with a disparate technical knowledge, I tried to keep it more focussed on the general principles than the technical details.

Last week was a short week here in Canada (we took the Monday off to drink beer - I mean, celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday), and the person at Surge from whom I get the most help with web development was off sick on Tuesday an Wednesday. Plus, I was off to DrupalCamp Friday and Saturday, which meant losing another work day, plus preparing two presentations.

Anyone who finds Drupal's Zen theme as useful as I do will be excited to learn that someone has gone to the trouble of drawing all the nested elements that constitute a standard Zen layout as a handy PDF diagram.

It sort of reminds me of 70's op art. Maybe not suitable for framing, but definitely will finding a place on my wall.