jpamental (Jason Pamental)
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About Me
Early fall 2009 I decided to launch my own web strategy and design consultancy. During my career I have been responsible for directing all aspects of interactive projects, integrating marketing, design, and business processes into a comprehensive solution. From shaping the initial project vision and developing the information architecture, to providing creative direction for the visual design and managing the implementation, I have overseen and been intimately hands-on with both the creative and technical aspects of interactive projects. While I enjoy all aspects of interactive projects, my greatest passions lie in solving the complex strategic and design problems that can take web solutions from plain to extraordinary, and from basic online brochures to efficient online applications that solve real problems - for people and businesses alike.
Favorite podcast - boagworld.com (on just about all things related to web design)
On those rare occasions when life is not work related it's all about my family, our dog, and whatever I can get anyone to do outdoors.
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We've set the date for the next Providence Drupal Meetup. It'll be on Wednesday, March 30th at 6:00pm at McFadden’s Restaurant & Saloon. We’ll be in their private room; food and drinks will be served. Parking is free on and off street (starts at 5 pm).
Doors open at 6 pm; we ask that you try to arrive by 6:30 pm for networking. The program starts promptly at 7 pm. The program includes introductions, a presentation, and a chance to pick the brains of your fellow attendees.
Topic is still TBD but will likely be focused on either Drupal 7 Theming or 'performance tuning' your Drupal site. We'll update the site and tweet about it when we get that sorted out.
Please RSVP via the comments. It's a perfect break in between rounds of March Madness, so get off the couch why don'cha. Have no fear - we will still have free appetizers and some free drink tickets to give out.
We've set the date for the next Providence Drupal Meetup. It'll be on Wednesday, December 8th at 6:00pm at McFadden’s Restaurant & Saloon. We’ll be in their private room; food and drinks will be served. Parking is free on and off street (starts at 5 pm).
Doors open at 6 pm; we ask that you try to arrive by 6:30 pm for networking. The program starts promptly at 7 pm. The program includes introductions, a presentation, and a chance to pick the brains of your fellow attendees.
We'll be doing some Drupal 7 Q&A - after all, it's at Release Candidate stage now! We've got some super-sneaky-special guests on the list, so there should be some really great insights on the Next Big Thing in Drupal. Don't miss it!
This month's meetup will be sponsored by Lullabot and Newschoolyard - and we've got some AMAZING stuff from Media Temple to raffle off! We will have three separate 'one year of a free (dv) from Media Temple' to raffle off - each a $500 value! Tickets will be $5 each or 3 for $10. Odds of winning are entirely dependent on tickets purchased, and we only want to allow one prize per person. That's it for fine print. We do reserve the right to make random snap decisions and snarky comments too, though.
Please RSVP via the comments below. We know it's a holiday time but why not get party season going right? PASS THIS ALONG! We have a hefty room minimum to cover (that's common in December) so the more people you bring, the fewer extra beers I'll need to make you buy. Have no fear - we will still have free appetizers and some free drink tickets to give out.
See you next week!
We've set the date for the next Providence Drupal Meetup. It'll be on Tuesday, November 23rd at 6:00pm at McFadden’s Restaurant & Saloon. We’ll be in their private room; food and drinks will be served. Parking is free on and off street (starts at 5 pm).
Doors open at 6 pm; we ask that you try to arrive by 6:30 pm for networking. The program starts promptly at 7 pm. The program includes introductions, a presentation, and a chance to pick the brains of your fellow attendees.
We'll be talking about the Feeds module (and a few helpers) and looking at how it can be used to do things like transfer content from your old site, syndicate content from other sites to yours, import users and even automatically import your photos from Flickr. Unlike the Aggregation module in core, this lets you import everything as their own nodes, giving you all the flexibility of views integration and more.
This month's meetup will be sponsored by Parallax Information Technology - so make sure to say hi to Steve Cross and thank them for the wings!
Please RSVP via the comments on the site. We know it's a holiday week but why not get it going right on Tuesday?
Hi all -
Just redesigned and relaunched my own site http://thinkinginpencil.com - been busy this year and really needed to have more than just a blog. Tried to bring out the focus of my work better spanning strategy, design and technology. Would love to hear some feedback from the RINexus.com community.
Cheers,
Jason
We've set the date for the 5th Providence Drupal Meetup. It'll be on Wednesday, October 27th at 6:00pm a McFadden’s Restaurant & Saloon. We’ll be in their private room; food and drinks will be served. Parking is free on and off street (starts at 5 pm). Doors open at 6 pm; we ask that you try to arrive by 6:30 pm for networking. The program starts promptly at 7 pm. The program includes introductions, a presentation, and a chance to pick the brains of your fellow attendees. This month's meetup will be sponsored by Rubic Design. They will be talking about Ubercart, Drupal's ecommerce module suite. The discussion will include; modules used, store configuration, adding product, and theming basics. Rubic Design will also share some of their real-world Ubercart solutions developed for their clients.






Recent Comments
Hey Chris - not sure if this is coming too late to be useful, but I give it a huge thumbs up. Version 6 is a big step forward, and still a lot less costly most other players in the market.
Make sure you use the UTM tracking (a bit of JS code in the footer) as it provides a lot more detailed session information.
Hope that helps!
Jason
Great event - first time I got to attend and met some really cool people. Matt Gillooly was there and showed us their new creation 'twalala.com' - awesome stuff, and really fun to kick around ideas about 'what's next' kind of apps and integrations.
Cheers-
Jason
I was fortunate enough to attend Ellen Levy's talk today over lunch at at the Business Innovation Factory and this was a major focus. It was a great cross-section of innovative thinkers from around the state and a perfect example of widely different circles coming together. I'm very excited about continuing to explore these kinds of overlap - the opportunities to meet really interesting people and get involved in new areas are endless.
Jason
I've used SQL Server quite a bit, and its' admin tools are really good. I think that actually the free version (SQL Server Express) is a pretty decent option, but MySQL has been great and version 5 finally has a good set of capabilities for stored procedures as well as better backup and replication options. PrimeBase used to be a standard for me because it was a good cross-platform option, but in recent years MySQL has gotten so much better on the Mac for development that I stopped using it (not to mention that MySQL is free and PrimeBase is not).
I do have to say that overall it's the admin tools that make SQL Server an attractive option more so than the actual DB engine itself. And for high volume reads and lower volume transactions, MySQL is more than adequate for just about all but the highest traffic loads (several million page views per month with multiple DB queries per page).
Jason