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In building a site for a friend, I used the opportunity to explore some new modules and tools in helping migrate date between different environments (meaning: from development to production).

Moving into our new house got me thinking about ways to save on energy costs (going from small apartment to full house), and with the abundant amount of sunshine we get in Long Beach (and Southern California in general), I'm especially curious about solar energy.

So last month, I finally got myself a VPS through Slicehost and decided it was time to start doing my own personal Drupal stuff. The experience has been mostly positive; building the virtual box from scratch, prepping a multisite environment, doing some light theming, etc.

The Drupal goddesses and gods over at Lullabot are set to release a learning DVD, "Understanding Drupal", later this month. The topic list looks interesting and could be a good tool for folks getting started with Drupal, or helping to train non-technical (or not-so-technical) folks on your team.

More info:
http://drupal.org/node/276923