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DrupalCon 2012 is here! We are two days into the convention and still going strong. I have good, bad & ugly to report.

The Good.

Some great sessions! We found out that Drupal 8 is targeted for release in August 2013, but there is a lot of work to be done before that time. It was also announced that Drupal 8 will incorporate some components of the Symfony php framework, which will only help to make Drupal an even stronger CMS. Beyond that we discussed the surge in popularity of mobile browsing, the expected upcoming explosion and the opportunity to take advantage of this interest by developing and themeing with mobile devices in mind.

Another hot topic this year is entities and harnessing the power of these as the base content type in Drupal. In Drupal 7, we are able to create specialized entities instead of relying solely special content types based on nodes. This opens up new doors for developers, enabling them to have new ways of dealing with content and content types.