awebb

Drupal

Roles in working with Drupal

Software Architect / Technology Manager

I contributed Drupal patches

I contributed Drupal modules

Personal information

Full name

Adrian 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

Bio

I currently manage the Drupal team at NBC iVillage (http://www.ivillage.com). 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

Companies worked for

CollectiveColors LLC, NBC Universal (iVillage)

Current company or organization

NBC Universal

History

Member for

6 years 4 weeks

Projects

• Email Filefield (4 commits)
• Ubercart Bulk Discount (3 commits)
• Taxonomy Views Integrator (2 commits)
• Panelizer (2 commits)
• Ubercart Member Pricing (2 commits)
• Drush Git Interface (1 commit)
• Total: 14 commits