Lion Burger is a business venture into web application development run by a two-man team in Rochester, NY. Our team consists of developers Pete Karl, and Nick Sergeant.

Twenty-four hours ago, I was deploying applications from development to production environments in about 5-6 steps. Today, tomorrow and every day in the future, I'm doing it in 1 step, with Fabric.

I don't normally write about personal things on this blog, but I wanted to explore this idea I've had floating around for a while. The bottom line: there is just no all-encompassing title for the do-it-all web professional.

We use Zope related software throughout our day at GateHouse Media. Specifically, we run a hosted solution, Zope4Media provided by Zope Corporation. Our level of involvement with the software on the development end of things is strictly limited to template development in ZPT.

So Pete and I discovered StackOverflow.com a few days ago, and we've been pretty much addicted ever since.

It's essentially a reputation-based Q&A programming community. It's massively popular, with many questions being answered in less than 60 seconds.

Smashing Magazine wrote up a very detailed and lengthy list of Drupal development resources yesterday on their blog.

The Drupal community as a whole needs more face-time like this to sustain and grow a healthy influx of new developers and designers. It's definitely worth a peek and a bookmark, so check it out!

There's a growing concern of mine revolving around the desire to use JavaScript in conjunction with, or in replacement of, XHTML-based navigation on websites. There are a lot of resources out there investigating the use of JavaScript with regards to search engine performance, web accessibility, and web interoperability. I'm going to try and summarize my thoughts here, and establish general guidelines to a healthy use of JavaScript with website navigations.

Yesterday, we launched Encore Symposiums on the Drupal 6 platform. The group had previously been on a homebrew CMS, and came to Jon and I with hopes of a platform that would allow them to manage every aspect of their site. Drupal fit the bill nicely.

About a week ago, I released my first Django project, Finisht.com, to the general public. Surprisingly, I've received a stunning amount of enthusiasm and excitement around the product. Along with that great response came many suggestions for feature improvements. Today, I've decided to open source the project to allow anyone download, install, and improve the app.