[consulting] Re : Drupal Designs

[Scott McLewin]

Mehboob Alam wrote:
> Just a word, in case it missed someone else's eye.. there some
> spurious text at the bottom of the page "asdfasdf"
>   
/me grimaces.

Oops. Lesson: don't check stuff in after falling asleep during a coding 
run.  :)   That was debug cruft, luckily it only survived for a day as 
it was pushed out last night and only on the front page.  *phew*

> Are you using some GeoIP-mapping function to detect where the user is
> based. My page came up with NY right-away - a pretty good trick.
>   

Yes.  We've incorporated the free version of Maxmind's geoip database.  
We describe folkjam.org as location aware.  We actually customize every 
display based on where the user says they are (or where the lookup says 
they are).  We've tried to make it have a very local feel no matter 
where you come in from.  Deeper down any content with locative data is 
filtered within a configurable radius of the visitor using 
hook_db_rewrite_sql().  This has created a number of challenges with 
search engine indexing, search.module indexing and caching that have 
been pretty much addressed.  It's been quite fun.

Scott