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For OSCMS, over a year ago, I wrote a module called geolocation as an example CCK field. It has languished in CVS forquite a while, I finally set up a project for it today, and I'm looking for a co-maintainer.

I had a great time at DrupalCampNYC.... I stuck myself in the Hack Shack, where I should probably keep myself as jaded as I've been lately. Ate me some tasty Bagels and got to help a few folks out... I even gave a presentation on workflow in Drupal 5. (Yes I occasionally show for my sessions.)

Hooray, we're about 2 weeks away from DrupalCampNYC 4 I sorta had a good time at DrupalCon 2008. If it weren't for the overpriced convention center,marketing sermons slyly disguised as sessions, stale presentations that I've seen a few times now, and inflated attendant pricing, I would say it was awesome. I don't think I'll be attending another DrupalCon unless it's an excuse to expense a trip to Europe.

We develop flash and flex front ends at Eighty Elements . I'm primarily a server side developer, and I decided to start teaching myself flex so I can better communicate and understand the work our front end guys do.

I seem to have gotten myself involved in a Drupal Multimedia Panel with Nate Huag James Walkah , and Aaron Winborn. All of whom have contributed greatly to multimedia handling in Drupal.

I have a client whose sysadmin is adamant about using Lighttpd as a webserver, whose site also uses imagecache. There are some major differences in Lighttpd's rewrite system compared to Apache's rewrite system. The difference that is most important is the lack of the file exists check provided by the -f flag to apache's rewrite conditions.

I really want a prosumer camera, something I can take beautiful pictures with. I've spent the last few years of my life working on image management and media tools for others. I'd really love to get to leverage my tools myself more often.

Crell published some interesting benchmarks in 'Benchmarking magic'. He mentions the overhead of loading and parsing in PHP being a big bottle neck in the comments.

I'm not a big fan of OO development. I think the OO approach is poor for readability and code comprehension. However, it does make for great black boxes. I really appreciate OO for encapsulating executable code.

I've moved on to Eighty Elements, a Vancouver based interactive media startup that specializes in integrating Flash, Flex, and Drupal. Blame Craq. I've been getting boucou time to work on Filefield, Derivative, and Transformer.