Merry Christmas!
Happy New Year!!! Its 2010!!! (Yes, I know I’m about 5 weeks late.)
Its been a VERY long time since I’ve updated this blog and for that I apologize to you, my readers profusely. Not only have I gotten a new job, my (very beautiful) daughter Imani-lauren Brianna Folkes was born on January 7, 2010 at 7:52pm weighting 7lbs and 2oz. Of course, the weeks leading up to and immediately after her birth were extremely hectic for me, hence my absenteeism from the blogosphere. Though hectic, it certainly has been worth every second 
I have found (relatively) new employment at Panmedia Ltd. where I spend most of my time developing websites on top of the Drupal CMS. In addition, I do a bit of SEO and Adobe Air development. Prior to gaining employment at Panmedia I had absolutely no knowledge of the workings of Drupal; I’ve always been a WordPress buff. I will say however that my feelings about the CMS have evolved from loathe to indifference to admiration. It is difficult to not appreciate the sheer power of Drupal when one has become well acquainted with how it works.
That being said, you can look out for a lot more activity from this blog in the coming weeks. I will be writing about the usual topics as well as my experiences as a fairly new Drupal user. As usual, i’d love to hear your feedback on my articles; the comments section is always open. I look forward to hearing from you!
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Congratulations on being a father. I know you will be a great dad.
I’m not a web developer craze like some of the blogs I read but I do enjoy reading the wealth of information.
Congrats on the new fatherhood!
I just stumbled upon this blog and found some of your posts compelling to the point i had to comment on this one. I also at one time felt the CMS world was the wave of the future, and it has been. I even started hosting CMS for folks, setting them up, customizing the looks and functionality a bit. I could deploy and customize a new CMS for a client in no time flat, GREAT. And then the fun started. Most of the clients I had were running on shoestrings and had no cash for real development and maintenance. When I would take on the client i would explain there would be maintenance and updates involved etc etc, they would be all gung-ho, not a problem. Then once the site went live and all was working properly, the interest in maintenance went away. To the non-technical folks, as long as it worked, it wasn’t broken. most cannot understand how a web page could cause a server to get hacked. Even after telling them their 2 year old Postnuke installation was allowing bad people to run bots, remote file includes, and upload bad files to serve to others (like porn), they would refuse to pay me to update. It seems in the hosting world when you build someone a web site they think you are married to them and responsible for keeping it safe and secure and managing any alterations their little hearts desire…. for free. My point being.. over time I decided the whole CMS hosting gig was a bad idea even though I could deploy sites with great speed and charge very little in relation to building from scratch and generally the CMS was much more robust and refined anyhow. Right now there are only a few of these sites left for me to manage and they have even been notified i am tired of fighting off the bad guys because of their old CMS and in short time if they do not come up with a new solution or pay me for a solution, they will be removed. One thing I should point out is in recent history Wordpress has been a fine target for folks to exploit and I believe even won an award for all the security issues discovered in it in 2009. Although Postnuke was terrible to deal with from release to release because they would make such huge changes in the core functionality that your modules would stop working or your nice theme suddenly stops working. Then you couldn’t find a module you wanted for the new version and well.. it was just a mess… maybe Drupal is different and with the U.S. government using it now maybe they will have a better model for bug fixes and patches/updates/upgrades.