I've been quite interested in working with geo-spacial data and information lately and was grateful to have had this link shared with me from Francis, a coleage of mine. Here's a great overview of the future of geo-spacial data storage and the visualization of it. It's great to see a large and exponential growth of interest in this field as a number of smaller organization stem up to fund the progression of these advancing technologies.

Andrew Turner: Beyond Google Maps

• http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2008/london/videos/andrew-turner

So Drupalcamp Vancouver is right around the corner and I'm sitting here preparing for 2 of my sessions: Designers Guide to jQuery and Drupal Theming. Both sessions are focused towards beginners as well as designers, but as always, all are welcome to attend and participate in discussion.

The jQuery session will be back-to-back with the Developers Guide to jQuery lead by a collegue of mine, Katherine Bailey. I will be covering the very basics of jQuery for web designers who are interested in utilizing the potential of jQuery but are over-come by the learning curve of having to learn a programming language. Believe me, it's easy! I'll also be doing a live tutorial as well as some simple implementations of jQuery animations within Drupal.

Our Drupal Theming session, lead by Mark Yuasa and myself (and maybe Hubert), will be an overview of taking a design to a functioning drupal theme. If you happened to miss our theming session in January and wanted to attend, this will be the one to be at.

Hope to see some new faces and meet new people! See you then.

Update:

Here's my post on the slides from this presentation. Please leave comments and questions in that post and not this one.
http://stevekrueger.com/braingarden/2008/05/10/designers-guide-jquery-drupalcamp-vancouver-presentation