Over the past couple of months my personal life and Drupal have progressed at such a rate that even I am having a hard time keeping up with it all. For those of you that do not know, I recently changed jobs to become a Drupal developer at Sony BMG.
Sony BMG was in the midst of releasing their new Musicbox site, which instead of just featuring artist videos through flash widgets within Drupal, now has a content rich and social networking aspect. You can read artist biographies, view official photos, find out album info and even listen to various tracks.
So when i first came into the group, which included my best friend and my newly found idols of Drupal ( aka Lullabots ), Musicbox was deep into development. The core of the site was laid out, various content types, views, and even a few panels were already established. Over the next 4 weeks my world was turned upside down with the amount of information I was learning. Lucky for me I had a strong foundation to build from or else I would have been completely lost.
This new site was being built mostly with Views, Panels 2, Nodequeues and a few custom modules to make everything work nice. Panels 2 blew my mind away, the way it handles data and lets you control and interconnect all content on a page is incredible to say the least.
I was also astonished at the mindset of Sony BMG. I was slightly tense about going into a corporate environment and didn't exactly connect how it could be part of the open source Drupal community. Needless to say my worries were put to rest soon after joining the team. The amount of time, patience, and level of quality this company expects from it's employees and subcontractors is amazing. There are a couple modules I expect to be released or updated in the near future that will be phenomenal because of the support ( aka funding ) Sony BMG has provided.
I'm taking a more active role in spreading the word and teaching other's about Drupal. My post a few months ago, I would like to retract. I completely support and do not doubt the decisions being made by contributors or the foundation of Drupal developers that think this is something worth investing their time and money into. I apologize for those statements I made, well most of them. I still feel the survey should have been done with a Drupal module, not some 3rd party website that looked like crap. I guess we all learn something along the way.
This post is for everyone that has supported and encouraged me along the way. Thanks, Enjoy and look forward to some awesome Drupalness in the future.
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