awebb

Drupal

Drupal contributions

In short, I am helping to revolutionize how larger enterprises work with publishing and content services through Drupal.

I am focused on the seamless integration of publishing interface and workflow, content management of layout and style, service API's and deployment, and caching systems. I have contributed a lot of this work back to the Drupal community while at NBC iVillage.

I occasionally write code and contribute patches or commits to Drupal.org projects and I have helped architect and sponsored a lot of work on various cutting edge Drupal projects, such as Panelizer, Fieldable Panels Panes, Field API Pane Editor, Entity Revision Scheduling, Deployment, Entity reference, Hierarchical Select Entity Reference, Entity Reference Live Preview, as well as some others I forget right now.

Roles in working with Drupal
Software Architect / Technology Manager
I contributed Drupal patches
I contributed Drupal modules

Personal information

Full name
Adrian Webb
First or given name
Adrian
Last name or surname
Webb
Languages spoken
English
Interests
software architecture, organizational design and management, democracy, technology, web service architectures, data analysis, psychology, computational intelligence, music, keyboard, economics, free market, electronic trading, philosophy, big picture, design, art, trying to find time
Gender
male
Country
United States
IRC nick
awebb
Facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1351173612
Twitter url
https://twitter.com/aewebb
Bio

I have been using Drupal since 4.6 in 2005 (back before we had CCK and Views).

I love the architecture of big things. And I love systems of all sorts.

I started using Drupal at CUNY Brooklyn College in 2005 when I took a political science class where one of our potential projects was building a web site for communicating about political ideas. Although I had been a software developer before, my main concentration was economics, and I had never heard of a CMS before. A friend of mine introduced me to CMS's and Drupal, which changed my life.

Although we did not use Drupal for that project (we wanted bells and whistles), I did get interested in it's power over the other solutions. I love Object Oriented code, but I became hooked on the extensibility of Drupal's hooks.

I have used it in some manner ever since, in personal and professional projects. Although I have contributed to Drupal, I have not been as active in the community as I would have liked. Now that we have migrated away from the source of many headaches for me (CVS) and into my favorite version control system (Git), I expect my contributions to increase.

IMPORTANT: A rule of thumb

If I am not committing on a project I started and do not check the issue queue regularly it means I am not using the project. If you want confirmation, contact me.

As much as I would like, I do not have the time to keep patching code that I do not use. But I am always accepting co-maintainers. Maybe that's you.

Work

Job title
Software Architect / Technology Manager
Current company or organization
Coral Technology Group
Industries worked in
Software
Companies worked for
CollectiveColors, NBC Universal (iVillage), Coral Technology Group, Venturis Capital Management

History

Member for
7 years 18 weeks

Projects