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2009 - A Look Back At My Professional Year

Posted Thu, 2009-12-31 20:24 by matthew

2009 went by fast. Lots happened during that period of time and lots changed.

I continued to run and moderate a site to support adoptive and foster parents that my wife and I built in Drupal in November of 2008. It is called TraumaAdoption.org. We updated the theme and watched usage of the site increase. Guest blogger KCassio started documenting her family's journey towards becoming an adoptive family. I'm looking forward to watching the trek continue in 2010.

I launched my own art site in Drupal to showcase my own artwork and then put together a package that allows other artists to use the same set of modules to sell their own artwork.

Goodbye 2008, Hello 2009

Posted Fri, 2009-01-02 21:04 by matthew

Professionally, this past year has proven to be pretty amazing.  I've continued to work for pingVision - an interactive media company that has a pretty heavy focus on Drupal.  It was Drupal that brought me to pingVision nearly two years ago.  I was learning about Drupal on version 4.7 in Vancouver to leverage the CMS in a site I was working on for WESTAF--I was, at the time, Senior Director of Technology.  I was moving my blogging activities from Blogger to my own domain, which my wife and I have used since 1995.