The topic of this blog post is not the typical sort of content that I post on, but I felt compelled. Feel free to tune out if you're not interested in anything non-technical. The purpose of this post is to express appreciation to Paradise Heating and Cooling and is the least thing I could do to express that appreciation and send a little SEO love their way.

Sometime during the night last night, the gas furnace at our house went out. I woke up to find our house 10 degrees cooler then normal. With just two adults, this wouldn't have been such a critical issue. With a 1 year old, it becomes very important.Read more

Based on a few bug reports from the QDrupal release earlier this week, I've fixed, tagged and cut a new release of QDrupal for Drupal 6. Thanks to everyone who has submitted bug reports!

After several months of development, I'm excited to announce that QDrupal for Drupal 6 has just gone into BETA. You can find the download on the new home for QDrupal at Drupal.org.

http://drupal.org/project/qdrupal

This release is the culmination of effort from several people, specifically Cliff Meece.

As this release settles, I will begin work on documentation for this release. Here's a quick overview of some of the exciting new features:

• QForms are now Drupal Node's
• QApplications now provide a way to define QDrupal settings right through your browser
• You can codegen right through your browser

http://drupal.org/project/qdrupal

I definitely want to build some sort of general announcement system into my blog next go around ... for now, I'll put it here.

43 Folders had a great post this morning about an article from the New York Times regarding email overload.

What I find interesting is that this idea is just now going mainstream. Having listened to Merlin Mann's Inbox Zero mantra for a while now, and Timothy Ferriss' opinions about attention management, I am glad to see this catching on. Email overload is one of the biggest sources of lost productivity to businesses today. Thankfully, it's an easy problem to fix.

Tim Ferriss of the 4-hour Work Week published a great article this morning surrounding the subject of Work-Life balance and Psychological Interference. I've enjoyed following Tim's adventures after reading his book last year, and this latest article really stands out.Read more

I've got some exciting news. Over the weekend, Zcodo officially launched! Zcodo is a PHP5 framework built for rapid prototyping web applications that is based upon the Qcodo framework.

The motivation for creating Zcodo could more than fill this blog post. Suffice it to say that contributing to Qcodo was becoming difficult and my efforts for the last year to change this were uneffective.

Additionally, the future of QDrupal will be based upon Zcodo, so stay tuned for exciting news in that area.

http://zcodo.com

I came across these demo's of TileCache, a component in an open source GIS application I'm working on. If you've ever wanted to see maps of all 32 original Super Mario Bro's levels, this site is for you.

BONUS: It's also got maps for The Legend of Zelda, Zelda a Link to the Past and a few others! So cool.

I've been looking for something like this for a long time. Having used Gmail for 4 years now, I've accumulated around 20k emails and used 1.5Gb.

A Mountain Top has been privileged to work with Minted, a new online store. Built on Drupal and QDrupal, Minted will be offering fresh, modern custom stationery and invitations.

In preparation for launch, Minted has announced their first Freshly Minted design challenge. The challenge is to design a sophisticated and modern "Save the Date" card for engaged couples. Cash prizes are being offered for the top 5 designs.

Details are available on Minted.com.