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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.

Well the week is over and I feel like the training was fantastic. The trainer, Jason, did a good job trying wrangle a huge amount of material and give us practical examples of some relatively obscure details that will be on the certification exam. I had a rather frustrating week overall because I ended up doing a lot of development late into the night, and at times even into class time. I need to set better demarcation in my time, if I am doing something then that is what I am doing.

Hi again all just figured that after the North Jersey Web Design Meetup last night that there could be new visitors stopping by the blog, so welcome all, especially folks that listened to me rant about Drupal and standards based design last night. It was an interesting meetup, a lot of folks that are new to web stuff, or not in their words, "very technical".

I have been away from my blogs for a bit and doing lots and lots of work. The 9-5 job has been very busy, and the side-gigs are busy but learning has really held my attention more then anything else. The Triad of learning at this time is, books, blogs and podcasts.Well here it is I have really started throwing all of my free time into Web Design. Reading, applying what I am reading, read some more, rinse and repeat. Thank god for the books from the masters, the web for tutorials, articles, and blogs. I have received years worth of training for very little money.

Welcome back folks, since my previous blog posting I have been rather busy with tracking down solid applications to replace my freebies of choice from the Windows XP enviornment.

How many side projects can one geek do?