I made an earlier limited announcement about this event to gauge interest and availability, and now I'm casting the net a little further. Plans have been laid for an Ubercamp on July 25th - 27th to be hosted by the Ubercart team in Louisville, KY and at Lake Cumberland (ideally enjoying Andy's houseboat and some water sports).

The tentative schedule includes a pre-camp hackathon at the Ubercart office during the day on Friday. In the evening, depending on crowd size and wireless availability, we'll head down to the lake and spend the weekend sharing, learning, discussing, and hacking on Ubercart.

While our primary focus will be Ubercart planning/development and testing the Drupal 6 port (codenamed Uber Tuber), Drupallers looking to learn and help where they can are welcome to join us. If you're interested, you can find more scheduling/pricing information and RSVP in the Ubercamp thread. Mike O'Connor will be coordinating things through there as the plans unfold.

We're excited about the chance to meet and spend time with the folks who can make it. We had a great time with other Drupallers interested in and working with Ubercart in Boston and hope to have a wonderful time at the Ubercamp. No official word on the Camp Song yet, but I bet it involves haiku...

Ahh, for once in my life I've registered early for an event. I spent a couple hours over the last few days nailing down the details of an Ubercart excursion to Drupalcon Szeged and am happy to report that the new company credit card works just fine.

Registration on the Drupalcon website is quite an experience. It took me a few minutes to orient myself to the whole process (lots of pages to flip through), but once I got it down I was able to register myself and the other Ubercart devs for the event at the awesome discounted rate. Not only that, I got us rooms in a hostel a few blocks away from the venue (no 2 mile hike a la Boston ) and easy travel between Budapest and Szeged at the same time. The organizers were even able to accommodate the trouble I'm causing by bringing my wife along who needs a shuttle bus ticket but won't be attending the conference.

Of course the best part... Christina will be joining me again, and we'll celebrate our first anniversary in Budapest before shuttling down to hang out in Drupaltown. We're totally excited, and I can't wait to see the folks I know and the new people I'll meet in Szeged.

June is an exciting month for both Ubercart and TopNotchThemes! Over a year since their initial alpha release, Ubercart released version 1.0 earlier this month. If you haven’t had a chance to check out Ubercart, you can read more about the project and also see why Drupal shines as an e-commerce platform.

To help you get started, we’ve added a handy tutorial to our site for creating an online store with Drupal.

We know that a beautiful e-commerce site built on an open source platform can be hard to come by, especially with the complexity of theming for e-commerce systems. Helping to change this perspective, we’ve just added another two Ubercart themes to the TopNotchThemes library, Sharp Sales and Stockholm!

Ubercart themes get a lot of extra TLC from our team, with additional styling of blocks for the shopping cart, bestselling and featured products, and various catalog displays. Product nodes, catalog grids, and categories get custom theming, along with the user’s cart and checkout forms. Ubercart themes come with all our usual TNT theme goodies too, so they work just fine for a non-Ubercart Drupal site.

Now that Ubercart 1.0 is out the door, the UC team is hard at work on the Drupal 6 upgrade, which will bring numerous other improvements. Congrats to the team on a great release, and we look forward to continuing to make Ubercart look its best!

Ahh, the sweet smell of a fresh release... if I could turn it into a drink, it would be a pumpkin spice latte (or perhaps a caramel frappuccino which doesn't smell as good but tastes great!). Today, 15 months after the initial alpha release, we've released Ubercart 1.0 for Drupal 5. As I said in our announcement, reaching the milestone is quite an achievement, but doing the work alongside a worldwide community of Drupal/Ubercart users and contributors has been a real joy. Many thanks to the countless folks who have made a 1.0 release possible.

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If so, you might have used Ubercart unknowingly. Or maybe you did know it and didn't really care.

While Ubercart has plenty of blemishes, it's encouraging to see that both Top Notch Themes and the new Theme Artists sites have found Ubercart to be a workable solution for peddling their wares. Lyle and I will readily confess our lack of theme mojo, and there are plenty of forum threads pointing out our mistakes to prove it. Now after many months of development and patience from the themers patrolling the forums, Ubercart is at a point where Steph et al from Top Notch are actually comfortable enough to offer Drupal themes designed for Ubercart sites. Very cool.

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