Ego Trip

Posted on March 11, 2007 by agentrickard

So, according to Dries' chart, I have begun to kick Drupal ass.

learning-curve.jpg

Why? Because:

  1. I develop the Drupal module MySite.
  2. I understand Drupal theming.
  3. I've written some documentation on Drupal.org.
  4. I help in the Drupal support forums.
  5. I've done some very minor patches and reviews to core.

But I still feel guilty about item #5. I don't contribute much to core Drupal, frankly, because most of it is over my head. The new menu system, for example, needs performance benchmarking and code review. And I just don't feel comfortable with that.

So, rather than just whining, what I'm trying to say is that some of us are able to kick a litle ass because Drupal itself handles so many elements of development for us: user access, SQL escaping, XSS filtering, and so forth.

Now if only I could figure out jQuery...

Update: I suppose, technically, I'm a Drupal consultant, too, since I talk with other folks who are looking to implement Drupal. But I don't currently charge for services.

Comments

hi ken remembering your

January 28, 2008 by Christophe (not verified), 2 years 6 weeks ago
Comment: 102

hi ken

remembering your speech in barcelona on how to suck yahoos complete information base (well almost) into drupal, jquery is a piece of cake for you. just go to http://visualjquery.com/1.1.2.html for the syntax and look at the drupal dojo session on jquery. simple :-)))

regards
christophe (the swiss from barcelona)

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