Developing Drupal

I just discovered Snappy https://github.com/KnpLabs/snappy

"a PHP5 library allowing thumbnail, snapshot or PDF generation from a url or a html page. It uses the excellent webkit-based wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage available on OSX, linux, windows."

I'm interested in learning to create Drupal 8 modules and was wondering if people thought it was a good idea to implement Snappy as a D8 module so that a link field could be rendered as an image or pdf, similar to https://drupal.org/project/pagepeeker and https://drupal.org/project/phantomjs_capture ?

During this last Meetup (Wed., March 28), there was some discussion about cloud hosting options for Drupal. Gary started with discussion of Pantheon and some of their announcements (including a $25 per month "personal" option).

I have a Pantheon Invite code if anyone is interested. Let me know I and I can get it to you!

After the discussion on KWALL's standard module set, I decided I wanted an easier way to get them in place. I mean, it's not really that hard to type drush dl module1 module2 module3 ad_nauseum..., but where am I going to keep a text file of a list of modules to paste into that command? I decided I'd (finally) build a Drush Make file to take care of all of it. I thought I'd share what I came up with.

I'm bummed that I was unable to make the recent Meetup at Macayo's. But I got swamped with my current project… moving to Taipei. :-)

If there’s one thing I'm disappointed in myself for, its that I never managed to get a regular meetup going here in Phoenix. I am pleased that Amanda and Josh appear to be doing what I did not. :-) Hopefully, the Phoenix Metro group will keep meeting and discussing my favorite CMS. And even though I never attended a PHX Metro meetup, I'm really glad I was able to meet the ASUDUG group! They are awesome!