It was great to see everyone at the Drupal Camp Colorado this year. A special thank you to the volunteers that make this happen every year.
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The first online Drupal Camp Colorado. It was really inspiring to see the Camp carry on through the pandemic and no one had to wear facial coverings to attend. Thanks to the hopin.io online event system and careful planning and preparation by the organizers the virtual camp was really quite enjoyable.
A special shout-out to the volunteers and the sponsors for giving us a great camp and overcoming the challenges. Thank you so much everyone!
Drupal Camp Colorado 2019 is scheduled for August 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in the King Center on the Auraria Campus in Downtown Denver Colorado. We are excited to have a great schedule this year. Check out the new Drupal 8 site at 2019.drupalcampcolorado.org to register for the camp, submit session proposals, and signup for training.
Drupal Camp Colorado 2018 is scheduled for August 3rd, 4th, and 5th in the King Center on the Auraria Campus in Downtown Denver Colorado. We are excited to have a great schedule this year that will highlight Drupal 8 adoption and new development tools such as Docker and Lando. Check out the new Drupal 8 site at 2018.drupalcampcolorado.org to register for the camp, submit session proposals, and signup for training.
Drupal Camp Colorado 2017 is scheduled for July 28th, 29th, and 30th in the King Center on the Auraria Campus in Downtown Denver Colorado. We are excited to have a great schedule this year that will highlight Drupal 8 and the new development road map for Drupal 9. Check out the fancy new site at 2017.drupalcampcolorado.org to register for the camp, submit session proposals and signup for training.
Drupal Camp Colorado 2016 is scheduled for August 12th, 13th and 4th in the King Center on the Auraria Campus in Downtown Denver Colorado. We are excited to have a great schedule this year that will highlight Drupal 8. Check out the fancy new site at 2016.drupalcampcolorado.org to register for the camp, submit session proposals and register for training.
Drupal Camp Colorado 2015 is scheduled for June 19th, 20th and 21st in the King Center on the Auraria Campus in Downtown Denver Colorado. We are excited to have a great schedule this year. Check out the fancy new site at 2015.drupalcampcolorado.org to register for the camp, submit session proposals and register for training.
Created the Redis Info module for Drupal that generates a report containing, usage, performance, and other statistics for Redis server. This module is a good companion to the Redis module and provides a convenient way to check on the status and performance of a Redis cache implementation.
There are several other "weather widget" type modules available as Drupal.org projects. I tried most of them before coming to the conclusion that I needed to create my own. I found that most of the other weather widget projects did not work without significant errors, considerable performance expense and were quite complicated to install and configure.
I am pleased to announce that LarsDesigns Information Systems Inc. has been accepted as a Drupal Marketplace service provider and is now listed on Drupal.org.
Drupal Camp Colorado 2014 is scheduled for August 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the King Center building on the Auraria Campus in Downtown Denver Colorado. We are excited to have a great schedule this year and the dedicated event web site is set to be released in March 2014.
Drupal Camp Colorado 2013 was held in beautiful Boulder Colorado and was quite successful. The attendance was significantly lower than the 2011 and 2010 camps but we still had lots of fun. Lunch was not catered this year but it kept the price super low. It seemed like everyone enjoyed crossing Broadway to find some food at the Whole Foods Market and nearby restaurants. However, I did miss the social interaction that serving lunch to the attendees provides.
At last, Drupalcon Denver and it was awesome! The sessions were amazing, the Symfony plus Drupal 8 announcement was breathtaking and the beer consumption was over the top. It was exciting to see everyone in my hometown and I really enjoyed showing off the area to some of the out of town Drupal folks.
Over the years I have become a fan of Memcache/Memcached environments for both production and development. This caching mechanism is super stable, reliable and greatly helps reduce the expense of the PHP/MySQL driven applications that I work on daily. In production it greatly reduces server load and in a development environment, it certainly increases performance.
The Colorado Library Birds of a Feather Gathering was a great success. About 28 people attended and mostly everyone presented about their past and future projects.
I am pleased to see that so many libraries are embracing Drupal with great success. Drupal continues to be a perfect match for many library needs by providing strong content management system capabilities and acting as a rapid development platform for more in-dept projects.
The Denver Public Library's main web site has won the Best .Gov Website (Best governmental website or department) award from the Westword news paper.
It was an honor to work on this project and the web information services team truly deserves recognition for their hard work and determination.
Drupal Camp Colorado 2011 was extremely successful. I was very honored to fulfill the role of venue coordinator for the second year running. I extend a special thank you to the Auraria Campus and King Center venue managers and the local Drupal Camp Colorado volunteers who made our camp extra special. Our camp was one hundred percent organized and run by volunteers. Financially, the camp was supported by many great sponsors for whom we are eternally grateful.
San Francisco was an awesome place to have a Drupalcon and visit in the Spring. The technology presence of California and the Bay Area is world renouned. This produced a very large Drupalcon and I found myself lost among the crowd of the largest Drupalcon yet. The Moscone Center and surrounding area was rich in Architecture and the garden area was very scenic.
Traveling to Denmark was a great experience and attending Drupalcon made it all that much more enjoyable. I really valued experiencing Copenhagen with my friends in Drupal community. Kudos to everyone for being so friendly, adventurous and generous. The social gatherings, conference sessions and overall planning were excellent. The Drupalcon Copenhagen team really did an outstanding job of organizing this event.
I had a wonderful time meeting Library folks, answering questions about Drupal and participating in the interesting conversations which included, performance, library system integrations, theme design and multi-site implementations just to name a few.
The Basketball Travelers asked me to update their web sites, assist with streaming video content online and providing photography services for their Paradise Jam College Basketball tournament in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Drupal Camp Colorado 2010 was huge. More than 340 people attended and the sessions were outstanding. This year I stepped up my involvement by helping to arrange the venue. I worked with the Information Systems and Management school at the Metropolitan State College of Denver, the local AITP chapter student group and the Auraria campus to hold the camp in the North Classroom Building.
This was my first Drupal Camp and at the time it was the third Drupal event I had attended. By that time I had been developing sites using Drupal as a full time occupation for about a year and I wanted to give back to the community. This is where I discovered how large and awesome the Colorado Drupal community is in Colorado. Around 230 people attended not just from Colorado but from around the county. It was really more like a convention than a traditional camp. Local vendors supported the event, which unlike many other camps had a well organized, dedicated web site and planned structured sessions.
Drupalcon in Washington DC was my second Drupalcon experience and first North American Drupalcon. It was about three times larger than the Drupalcon Szeged Hungary that I attended in the summer of 2008. It was awesome to meet the people who I look up to so much and who I have been working remotely with for so many hours and months.
Drupalcon Szeged was my first Drupal convention and community experience. I really enjoyed meeting and experiencing the community. This is where I fell in love with everything Drupal. I really felt accepted by the community and after having created a few Drupal sites that year, I was ready for some serious learning. Like a sponge I not only soaked up what I did not know but I learned where to get the information and the support I would need begin my path to becoming a Drupal ninja. I learned which books to purchase, which theme frameworks to learn, the cool APIs to study and I got a feel for the direction that Drupal was heading and how to utilize the CMS framework for what I do best, build web sites.
For the 2008-2009 U.S. Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio Texas, I was fortunate to be hired on to support the SportsHD and Tricaster video crews and build a Video Digital Asset Management System using Drupal naturally. Helping the video crews was a very enjoyable experience. I helped setup gear and upload video to the web site. I really enjoyed my stay in San Antonio and hope to return for many more working adventures.
In July 2009, I traveled to Belgrade Serbia where I was assigned to support a Fox College Sports video team as they captured footage for a documentary that would run on the Fox Sports Network as well as the Fox College Sports cable channel. The show was to report on the World University Games Held in Belgrade Serbia and showcase the U.S. basketball teams during the games.