DrupalCamp London was last week, and was a lot of fun.

I went to the business day, which was splendidly interesting. Here's the first summary of some of the highlights for me.

It’s official. Geeks have evolved. They’ve moved out of the broom cupboard and along the corridors, into the hearts and minds of organisations. And they’re calling themselves ‘Creative Technologists’...

Talking at the Museums Computer Group’s ‘Digitally Strategic’ Conference on Friday 30 November, Andrew Dobson of Grand Union described the changes that have taken place in the digital world over the past 20 years.

In the age of open journalism, where anyone can publish anything via the internet, how can publications make the most of user generated content and really engage with their readers?

Pingdom is one of my favourite free tools for monitoring uptime of the websites we create – everyone should use it! It not only saves money but, crucially, it avoids embarrassment with clients and customers. How?

It comes down to understandng how reliable your site is. Downtime can be very damaging – it can lead to loss of sales, upset customers and creates a negative image. If people can't access your site, the chances are they'll head elsewhere.

Last Wednesday, I was lucky enough to be asked to go to Canterbury High School as part of BIMA's D-Day - BIMA are the British Interactive Media Association and the 'D' stands for 'Digital'.

I was in Russia earlier this month attending DrupalCamp Moscow, where I was invited to present on Object Oriented CSS by my friend and organiser Artem Pankov. I had the pleasure of meeting Drupal enthusiasts and professionals from all over Russia and the CIS, and we generally had a great deal of fun!

We're beginning to get the first few enquiries worrying about the so-called Cookie Law. To save everybody a bit of time (and stress) here's a very brief guide to 'current thinking'.

(We say 'current thinking' because nobody seems to know that much about exactly what's going to happen. And we have to stress; this is not legal advice, we are not lawyers, always read the smallprint, ask a grown-up to help you with anything involving scissors!)

Okay, here are the links.