Aaron Winborn

Abortions for some, tiny American flags for others, originally uploaded by Advodude.

And always twirling, twirling, twirling

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I'm sooooo cooool, originally uploaded by Advodude.

So my mom is all connected to the democratic party, so she got some fancy community credentials. I was laughing at all my friends who were up on the 5th level while I got these sweet lower level seats. And then we got to our actual seats. Good times. Whose laughing now?
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Charlie prepares for the speech, originally uploaded by Advodude.

Charlie is very excited to watch his first presidential acceptance speech. I'll be posting photos of the security line shortly.

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Jody and I arrived in Hungary on Monday to attend and take part in this year's European DrupalCon, which is taking place in the lovely little city Szeged, near Hungary's southern border. We had a bumpy ride here, mostly due to the chaos that is Rome's airport, and we were a bit hampered by jet lag and a serious case of internet withdrawal on our way to Szeged. But things are going a lot better now that the conference has begun and our wireless cards are no longer starved for access. We've already drank two bars out of beer (with a lot of help from other thirsty Drupalers) and connected with a lot of friends we haven't seen in a while.

We're not only attending the conference though, we're taking part in a few ways. As I write this Jody is presenting on Node Templates in Drupal (pictured), and early Friday morning I'm scheduled to present John Snow's awesome new Embed Widgets module at the Google Summer of Code showcase. On Thursday night I am presenting a proposal (created in collaboration with Rock River Star) to the Drupal Association in an attempt to bring the next US DrupalCon (in Winter 2009) to Philadelphia.

On a logistical note: if you need to contact either Jody (until Sept 2nd) or myself (until Sept 8th) please either shoot us an e-mail or give me a call on my pre-paid Hungarian cell phone at 06 20 515 9286.

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Wonderfully I happen to arrive in Budapest just in time for the last day of the Hungarian national track championships. It was a good time with a lot of good people

While in Budapest I attended a Track cycling competition (the Hungarian nationals!). On my way to the velodrome I passed by a flea market walked inside and found a neat little snack shack. I looked around to what everyone else was eating then walked up to the country and pointed in a "I want that" manner. The nice girl behind the girl understood me and whipped me up one rather quickly.

It was toasty and nice..

My life on the D list, originally uploaded by Advodude.

Waiting in the longest security line EVER

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I think this is the coolest thing. At the Olympics they use R.C cars to retrieve the shotputs, javelins, etc. Quite smart and very cool.

eZ Systems is proud to launch an improved version of its website, ez.no. ez.no is where visitors can find out information about the vast features and uses of eZ's flagship Content Management System, eZ Publish, as well as its other business solutions. Visitors can also share code contributions; interact with each other in the forums; learn about best practices through articles, documentation, and books; and contact eZ for support.

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SharePoint Designer tutorial: Working with SharePoint Websites is a new book from Packt, which teaches users different SharePoint features that will help them create a SharePoint website. Written by Mike Poole, this book is ideal for people new to SharePoint Designer who want to put together a business website.

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eZ Systems are happy to announce the stable releases of eZ Publish 4.0.1, 3.10.1, and 3.9.5. These releases carry a huge number of fixes (about 310 for 4.0.1) and upgrading is highly recommended. eZ Publish 4.0.1 should be used for all new installations.

Included in these new releases is a dedicated extension to migrate custom URL aliases and URL history elements for existing 4.0.0 and 3.10.0 sites.

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Have you seen the design of the Dem Convention Podium? It's like someone from MTV circa 1993 puked on some tropical skittles, served them to Michael Bay, and he pooped it all out.
The Democratic Conventio Podium, originally uploaded by Advodude.

It's clearly stressing Charlie out.

Everyone rejoice, as Dries has just committed the long standing Drupal Database Layer: The Next Generation patch. This was one of the items on my original Drupal 7 wishlist, and is one of the major steps that will make Drupal 7 a killer release. This patch does a number of awesome things, as outlined by Crell:

• Allows fancy PDO database queries (foreach through a result-set, select columns of result-sets, etc)
• Connect to multiple databases simultaneously
• Database replication
• Type-agnostic prepared statements, so we don't need to bother with %s or %d
• Proper support for NULL values
• Adds support for transactions, while allowing them to not die on non-transactional databases
• Support for "INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE ..." on MySQL or whatever the database-specific equivalent on other databases
• Support for multi-insert statements, on all databases, using the appropriate database-specific mechanism
• "INSERT DELAYED" support on databases that support it or some equivalent, which should help performance on logging and similar "don't need it back immediately" queries
• Fully-structured INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE queries with a simple fluent API (chainable, like jQuery) syntax
• A Fluent API query builder for SELECT statements that weighs in at only a few hundred lines (not counting comments)
• .... And that's just naming a few of the benefits

Congratulations everyone! Crell, chx, bjaspan, catch, swentel, recidive, you guys rock!