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Day 2 was definitely a GTD day here. The sessions that I attended focused far more on rubber meeting the road and far less on gee, wouldn't it be nice... stuff. That is not to say that any huge visions came to me, but it reconfirmed notions that the problems I am having are actually problems and that smart people are going to have to solve them. Ok, so it just made me feel like I'm not dumb for having certain problems.

The session was presented by a team of CCK developers. In light of announcements in Dries’ Keynote yesterday, in which he talked about how fields will become first-class citizens of Drupal and the importance of nodes will be affected, the future of CCK raises a lot of interest. This is partly because CCK is the de-facto standard implementation of fields functionality in Drupal right now.

One of the more difficult aspects of professional Drupal site management is that there is not a very good way to move code/templates/content changes form the dev/staging environment to a production environment that has been in continuous use during your development cycle.

James Walker gave a great session about the state of OpenID and Identity management in Drupal.

Another thing I like about going to a conference is the things that go by quickly, randomly in passing.

Dries' keynote was the highlight of the conference. He talked extensively about his vision of the future of Drupal and some interesting, possibly revolutionary ways that Drupal can work with data.

Drupal Multimedia Session was presented by a panel of old-timers: Aaron Winborn, James Walker and Darrel O'Pry. It covered broad range of topics related to publishing images, video and audio using Drupal.

Tree House Interactive Media put on a talk this afternoon about enterprise level theming and how they built the mylifetime.com site. The high traffic highly monetized site was the case study for their session and the basis for their new Themester module that will be released shortly.

Making a quick pit-stop to post some photos. These highly amateur photos can hardly deliver the excitement and the fire of this highly energized gathering, but - bare with us :)