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I am excited to announce that I have been selected by Packt Publishing® to serve as a technical reviewer on an upcoming book on Joomla Extensions. Technical reviews (also called editorial and content reviews) are performed by individuals with technical knowledge or background. Reviewers assess the quality of the content in terms of its readability, communication of information, and suitability for the particular audience.

This is the fourth book that I’ve reviewed and the first on technology and/or software. The previous books include:

• Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (manuscript), Bodie, Merton, and Crawford, Prentice Hall®
• Finance: Investments, Institutions, and Management, 2/e. Stanley G. Eakins, Addison-Wesley®
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Swim on down to the shark tank and check out these themes.

Theme Shark Themes

Have you seen the Drupal® purchased theme providers (aka clubs) that are starting to emerge on the horizon? I am delighted to see growth in this under-developed segment of the Drupal® landscape. As we all know, Drupal® is known for it's brains and brawn and not for it's good looks. Great! Looks are much less important to the core of the program than aesthetics.

Develop your Website on your desktop with a local version of Drupal using a WAMP. WAMP is an acronym for the web server package of the operating system (Windows), Apache, MySQL and PHP (or Perl or Python). A local version of WAMP will allow you to develop your website, themes, and modules while working offline.

Web 2.0 Expo will emphasize educational aspects of Web development at this expo where big product and market announcements are expected.

Just finished teaching a class on creating dynamic websites to about 40 students at the Redondo Church of Religious Science. The participants were welcoming, friendly, and very enthusiastic.

The Redondo CRS produces sermons that are broadcast on various cable channels in about 40 markets and can be downloaded as podcasts from iTunes.