It's that time of the year when all flock to the library for Summer Reading sign-up. Last year we had over 8000 participants including youth, teens and adults.

This year we bring the sign-up form to you to sign-up from home. The Summer Reading form was build using drupal's new form API. If you want to get a jump start I would suggest the "quickstart guide", which is awesome with little code snippets and examples.

Here is how the form works. The name of the from is the $form_id and to build the form drupal looks for a function with the same name. In this case the $form id is sumreading_form. Here is an example:

In May, I was lucky enough to attend the php|tek conference in Chicago. I met some really cool people, took a crash course on Zend Certification, and learned a lot about security, optimization, and new technologies. Here's a list of my five six SEVEN favorite sessions that I attended during the week (I had to add a couple from my original plan):

7. Opening Keynote : Rasmus Lerdorf "PHP on Hormones"

The conference was started off with a bang as the "father" of PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf, gave the opening keynote. Rasmus gave some of the history of PHP, which started as a pet project. He talked about how to get people to contribute to open source projects, how to tweak performance, security issues and APIs. He even used drupal as his example for testing performance (hint: turn on drupal caching!). Great talk and a great way to get the Oxytocin flowing!

• Presentation Slides
• Rasmus's Homepage