The architecture of a Drupal Application with integrated Solr Search using ApacheSolr module.

I gave a talk today at the February meeting of the Vancouver Island Java User Group (VIJug) on integrating Search into web applications using Solr (and Drupal).

I attended the first official meeting of the new Knowledge Management Community of Practice board meeting today - last meeting was very brief and informal, and dealt with introductions, appointment of members, arrangements to be addressed in terms of signing authority for the bank accounts, etc. Members of the KMC can expect to be hearing from me in my new capacity of Secretary.

The Georgia Straight is one of the oldest and most respected independent newsweeklies in North America.

ATIRA, a local non-profit community-based organization supporting women, was recently nominated in VanCity's $1 million VanCity Award. Cielo Systems has been working with ATIRA to assist in the conception and development of new web strategies supporting ATIRA's community activities.

Cielo Systems' director Djun Kim was elected to the board of directors of the Knowledge Management Community of Practice at the AGM, held September 14, 2006. He joins Martin Bliemel, Karen Buchamer, Betsy Chan, Jessica Dill and Catherine Kerr to serve a one year term.

Save Energy Now, a portal for the Energy Saving Plan, a BC-wide building energy efficiency enhancement pilot project, launched on March 31, 2006. The web site will help to connect home owners, landlords, builders and commercial building managers throughout the province of British Columbia to information and incentives which will help them to make their existing buildings more energy efficient. The pilot project aims to effect energy savings of 60,000 Gigajoules over the course of a year.

The Sustainable Building Centre (SBC) is a newly formed non-profit organization serving as British Columbia's hub for everything to do with sustainable building. SBC provides a one-stop point of service for professionals and the general public on all aspects of sustainable design, construction, and operation for all building sectors.

Joel Spolsky has become something of a legend among the current generation of software developers. His common-sense, tell-it-like-it-is, experience-rich, narrative teachings have helped tens of thousands of followers to better software and better software organizations, since well before the great dot-bust.