Drupal
- Roles in working with Drupal
- Site Builder, Developer, Module Maintainer, Theme Maintainer, Evangelist
- I contributed Drupal patches
- I contributed Drupal modules
- I contributed Drupal themes
- I contributed Drupal installation profiles
- I contributed to Drupal issue queues
- I contributed Drupal documentation
- I provide Drupal-related services
- I give support on IRC
- I help mentor new contributors
- I attended DrupalCon Paris 2009
- I attended DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010
- I attended DrupalCon Chicago 2011
- I attended DrupalCon London 2011
- I attended DrupalCon Denver 2012
Personal information
- Full name
- Richard Burford
- First or given name
- Richard
- Last name or surname
- Burford
- Languages spoken
- English
- My website
- http://fs.io/
- Interests
- Drupal, web, music production, food, football (soccer)
- Gender
- male
- Country
- United Kingdom
- IRC nick
- psynaptic
- LinkedIn profile
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/psynaptic
- Twitter url
- http://twitter.com/psynaptic
- Google profile URL
- http://gplus.to/psynaptic
- Bio
Richard is Director of Freestyle Systems Ltd., a UK-based Drupal development company.
Richard joined the Examiner.com Dev Team in June 2010 and helped to launch the biggest Drupal 7 site six months before Drupal 7 was released. He was the Lead Front End Developer on the Examiner.com mobile site - the highest traffic Drupal mobile site in the US and the 7th highest ranked mobile site in the US (August 2012).
Richard has many Drupal contributions, mostly in the form of contributed modules and his minimal base theme called Clean. Another of Richard's major contributions to the Drupal project is the Drupal Contrib API site drupalcontrib.org which provides reference documentation for Drupal's most popular contributed projects.
Richard has a score of 7 on the Drupal certification site "Certified to Rock".
Richard is currently a Senior Software Engineer on the Drupal Gardens team at Acquia.
Work
- Job title
- Senior Software Engineer
- Current company or organization

- Industries worked in
- Software Development, Web Design, Drupal Training, Music Production
- Companies worked for
- Acquia, Examiner.com, Clarity Digital, Freestyle Systems, Teesside University, Institute of Digital Innovation, Openly Connected, Phumo, LongLake Studio
History
- Documentation
- Over 10 edits
- Member for
- 6 years 25 weeks
Projects
- Clean (268 commits)
- Shadowbox (167 commits)
- Queue Runner (123 commits)
- Textmate (111 commits)
- Blockify (62 commits)
- API Dev (58 commits)
- Block edit (43 commits)
- Form Tips (38 commits)
- UC Discounts (36 commits)
- MASt (30 commits)
- Growl Messages (23 commits)
- UC Worldpay (21 commits)
- Beautify (19 commits)
- Commerce Paypoint (18 commits)
- Views Slideshow (10 commits)
- Webform Block (10 commits)
- UC PayPoint (9 commits)
- Clean Blockify (9 commits)
- Style Guide Extras (7 commits)
- Fancy contacts (7 commits)
- Commerce Skrill (Formerly Moneybookers) (7 commits)
- FreeAgent API (6 commits)
- Edit (5 commits)
- Fancy dates (3 commits)
- Flickrbomb (3 commits)
- API (3 commits)
- Path Access (2 commits)
- Vim Plugin For Drupal (2 commits)
- Aloha Editor (2 commits)
- Dummy image (2 commits)
- Booking (2 commits)
- Style Guide (1 commit)
- CCK Importer (1 commit)
- Views Import (1 commit)
- Feeds (1 commit)
- Query Monitor (1 commit)
- Antivirus (1 commit)
- External Links Extra (1 commit)
- API Site (1 commit)
- Clear Books API (1 commit)
- Textimage (1 commit)
- Localization client (1 commit)
- Zen (1 commit)
- Media oEmbed Thumbnail Style (1 commit)
- Comment on anything (1 commit)
- Mongodb (1 commit)
- Role indicators (1 commit)
- Total: 1122 commits
psynaptic is an individual member of the Drupal Association, which fosters and supports the Drupal software project, the community and its growth.
As a Supporting Partner, Acquia helps fund the Drupal Association's key initiatives that strategically support and grow the Drupal community.
Acquia is an Organization Member of the Drupal Association. We’re supporting the Drupal.org infrastructure and other large community initiatives.


