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Today is a very busy side work day for me, I will be working on two projects for most of the day, this is very different then just one year ago. I am feeling very nostalgic today, one year ago just about this time, I returned to school, knew little about Drupal and thought I was busy LOL. Now as I sit here this morning I look at a week full of 4 days of fulltime job, 2-5 days of side work, 2 of 3 of my classes, and I am looking forward to it all.

Last night was the NYC Drupal August meetup at Mansueto's offices at 7 World Trade Center. This was the first meetup under a new more structured format, of lightening talks, and then splitting the group into newbies and ninjas. During the lightening talks last night, I gave a quick run through my current projects. I first ran down Hot Report's functionality, how I took it from designer's comp and functional specification and some of the modules and the dealt with output from the views.

Last evening I went to the New York City PHP meetup group, after one of the members of this group posted on the New York City Drupal group's site looking for speaker / advocates. It was fun to walk into a new meetup group, that was really just starting out, and people were enthusiastic and excited to have new people showing up. In the end about half the attendees were entrepreneurs, recruiters, or marketing folks, and the other half were technical, developer types.

Last Tuesday evening I went over to my first Drupal NYC meetup, at Manhattan Neighborhood Network and it was a good time. It was nice to see folks that I had met at DrupalCamp NYC2 back in January. There was a lot of Google Maps / mapping in general discussed, showed off and explained.

Tonight at 7pm I will be attending my first NYC Drupal meetup. This should be alot of fun, I attended the DrupalCampNYC2 and alot of the people that were involved in that wonderful weekend appear to attend this. That was my first ever technology meetup and it started off my obsession with attending tech meetups.