Rob Loach .Net

David Akermanis pinged me yesterday on Twitter ("Twatted me" just sounds so wrong) stating that it has been a full year since my last blog post. And it's true it's that old, March 3rd, 2009 was the last time this website got some new content. It has been a crazy busy year, and I thought I'd take the opportunity to make a one year no-blog-post anniversary blog post to bring it back up to speed. The majority of this will be old news, but it's here just to make sure we're all on track...

• DrupalCon DC was so much fun, I posted the pictures on Flickr
• The proposal to turn Drupal into a Distributed Micro-Blog went through with the Knight Foundation and we're currently going through documentation and reports to make sure it goes through nicely
• Helped put together a new site for my good friend, David Akermanis. The aim was to be a social networking hub for his latest events, pictures, music, and his thoughts on life. Been about a year since then, so it desperately needs a new design!
• The Open Video Conference in June was crazy fun. Guest star appearance of Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde! Video interview here.
• Created yet another Drupal module: Konami Code
• Got a new Nikon D90 and absolutely been loving the pictures its taking
• Paula Valstein plays a wicked show, as did Ingrid Michaelson (here's The Chain) and Joshua Radin (here's Everything'll Be Alright). Oh, and Nick Warren, Ronski Speed, Ferry Corsten, should I go on?
• DrupalCon Paris was absolutely amazing. Paris is an incredible city, and I guiltily regret not exploring more of it instead of going to the DrupalCon sessions. Definitely going to have to visit France again.
• The New York Anime Festival was a blast. I have to get on top of uploading pictures from events. Watched Cowboy Bebop and liked this scene from episode 18 the most.
• Some of the modules I maintain are now Drupal 7 ready: String Overrides, Disqus, Mobile Theme, OpenID URL, etc.
• I'm now a Drupal Engineer at Acquia! My projects so far include keeping some of their internal workings on track, being a bridge between the marketing team and the engineering team, and helping out as much as I can in other areas. It has been absolutely fantastic so far, and I'm so happy to be part of such an incredible team.

Moving forward, I plan to post more rapidly on here. Although I'll be writing less content on each post, I will be posting more frequently. There's normal blogging (essay-ish) and then there's micro-blogging (140 characters), I think I'll turn this into something in between... A Miniblog?

In closing, I'd like to thank you everyone! It has been an amazing no-blog-post year. A very busy, productive and fun year. I hope to see you all soon!