Introductions

Hello everyone! My name is Roger ... (why does this feel like an AA intro? ) .... and I've sporadically used Drupal over the course of 5ive years or so to assist a non-profit organization I belong to, as well as other side-interests not primary to my day-to-day job. By day I'm a database developer for a Fortune 500 company (not as glorious as it reads here), and I'm one of those people whose experiences are a mile wide and a foot deep. I have a theoretical understanding of programming and databases that far exceeds my coding skills, but I'm looking to change that a bit using Drupal.

Hello everyone,

My name is Silver. I am new to Drupal but hope to learn as much as possible from events, books, sites and others.

I have experience in the IT field in support, classroom, software development. I am trying to get more involved in web development so this is how I came to know and learn more about Drupal.

My hope is to be a student and then offer my experiences to all as I go down this new, winding path.

Hi I'm Jon Heaton. I've been using Drupal since Drupal 5. With my current job I am converting a large company intranet portal to Drupal from a custom framework. I've designed dozens of Drupal sites and am intimately familiar with the templating system, building custom modules, using Views, Panels, and am just getting into Rules. I am also very familiar with the entity system and am looking forward to the iSymphony integration and web services initiative coming to core. I have contributed 1 patch to core in Drupal 7. Looking to do more but need to get better familiar with Git.

Hi Everyone,

My name is Dawn Rae Brown and I consider myself a Drupal newbie...I inherited a neglected Drupal install from a co-worker a little over a year ago, so I had to learn Drupal quickly. I've done a few updates and wrote a few hooks, but I still feel like I barely know what I'm doing. Currently, we're running one core install with around 11 sites on it. I went to Drupal Camp at ASU and had lots of fun and realized what a great community Drupal has and I want to become more active!

:) Dawn Rae Brown

Greeting Drupal Phoenix Group. I'm new to the Drupal community, I just stated working at Glendale Community College in Glendale (59th Ave & Olive). We are investigating using Drupal for some upcoming projects. I'm an experienced programmer but just new to Drupal. I'm looking forward to being an active member of the Phoenix Drupal Group.

Hey, everyone. I got to Drupal in a very round-about way as I am not a developer. I am part of a task force at work that created a campaign. Our marketing company designed a basic WordPress site for us but I wasn't comfortable being the administrator, not having built it from scratch and not knowing the exact functionality. Therefore, I created my own WordPress site for the campaign and we went with that. Unfortunately, the dreams I have for the campaign and the website that accompanies it are greater than I feel WordPress will allow me to accomplish.

Been lurking a bit on the site, figured it was time to take the plunge. :-)
I came to the Phoenix area in September 2008 to start a new life as a web developer. I used to be a university biochemistry lecturer, but I've gotten over that. I stated by migrating an existing site from ColdFusion to PHP/MySQL and adding to its capabilities. I'm pretty new to Drupal, having started trying to add even more new functions with Drupal since Oct. 2009. I've gotten over that initial two-month feeling of beating my head against the wall. We hope to do a beta-testing launch by the end of February.

Hello, all. I lived in the East Valley for 7 years, but I've been back in Idaho for the past 6 months. However, I've finally figured out once-and-for-all that I don't like Idaho winters, and my family and I will be moving back at the end of January (2010).

I've been doing PHP development, mostly on LAMP, for the past 12 years, the past two-and-a-half of which have been almost exclusively Drupal. I love Drupal! I don't want to go back to general development, so I'm looking around for jobs that include Drupal, not just PHP. (So if you know of any...)

I look forward to any events or meet-ups happening in the near future.

Russell

I'm a newbie to the Drupal community. I have several programmer friends who love the community and work within. They all moved out of state and I never sat down with them when they were here to fully try to understand Drupal more. In fact I was just the designer not the programmer but now I want to be more the designer/programmer and I have questions about Drupal and would really like to pick a friend's brain. I need someone to talk to on phone or person to inspire and help me get into the Drupal world.

I'm a newbie to the Drupal community. I have several programmer friends who love the community and work within. They all moved out of state and I never sat down with them when they were here to fully try to understand Drupal more. In fact I was just the designer not the programmer but now I want to be more the designer/programmer and I have questions about Drupal and would really like to pick a friend's brain. I need someone to talk to on phone or person to inspire and help me get into the Drupal world.