I’ve been blogging about my experiences, starting from scratch, learning the LAMP stack and delivering a high quality, high performance solutions.  I’ve had my head in a few books lately; a php beginners book, a php advanced book, and a Drupal Pro book.  My eyes are heavy but I have a prototype to my end solution.

Building a solr search driven search site is completely painless, and getting faceted search options are completely customizable.  Out of the box, Drupal gives our website about 60% of our functionality.

However, be prepared: Drupal is a whole other language unto itself.  Coming from a nice SDK an a .Net environment, the vast number of function names you need to remember is quite dawnting.  .Net feels much cleaner- that being said I think I can do much more with the php code.

My next steps will be mastering the Jquery integration.  This site needs to feel real 2.0, and I plan on keeping up with key AJAX function.

That’s it for me tonight, time for some sleep.