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I've been asked to webcast an event this Wednesday morning, September 1, by Detroit Public Television. The event will be taking place in Auburn Hills, MI and will have some big players including the U.S. Secretary of Commerce.

Watch it Wednesday, 9/1/10 @ 10 AM ET on DPTV.org

I had the pleasure of visiting the Detroit Joomla! Group last week after being extended an invite by Shane Sevo to start a discussion between our two groups of how Drupal and Joomla compare and contrast.

Too many times the Drupal vs. Joomla debate is more religious than anything. We have all chosen our specializations and have our biases, but those don't necessarily prove useful to our clients. Instead, it's important to understand there are times when one tool is a better fit than another and the only way to do that is to understand the tools at your disposal.

I'm looking forward to visiting the Joomla!Detroit group at their next meeting in September and will be giving a basic demonstration of what Drupal is, how it works, and where it fails and succeeds. I'll also be going over some common contributed modules that almost every Drupal site uses including CCK, Views, and more.

Together, the Joomla!Detroit group and Michigan Drupal Meetup are helping to bring understanding and intelligence to the world of content management systems instead of dogmatic, biased debate!

I've recently launched a new website, DrupalOptimized.com, that focuses solely on providing Commercial Progression's web hosting and an explanation of how things have been setup to work well at being the best Drupal hosting.

Watching a really good webinar from the Los Angeles Drupal User Group on how to use Git for version control (Drupal.org is moving from CVS to Git with Drupal 7).

If you're familiar with CVS or Subversion this is a great introduction that provides some comparisons between methodologies and commands. If you're new to version systems then Git is a great place to start.