From a Continuum Mechanics PhD dropout to a Nginx and high performance web setups addict there's no straight line. Not even a crooked line. Some more stuff I like and that is relevant to Drupal: Lisp and web application security . In Drupal I like Panels and CTools. I like Rules also. I started using Drupal in 2003 for a website that's done in drupal 4.3.2 (still running). My interest in Drupal was that of a mere hobbyist. In 2007 at the portuguese public radio I tried to implement a Creative Archive kind of thing in Drupal 5. That was my baptism of "blood" in all things Drupal. I can't relate now to the person that couldn't make sense of the things he read in Drupal Pro Development first chapters in early 2008. I've learned a lot. I've learned a little better about the vast measure of my ignorance.