It’s been a while since I’ve posted and I’ve been very busy.  I launched a new consulting service I call Code Dreamers.  I’ve spent tons of time on Taxonomy Menu and started to develop my ideas for Blog to It.  Drupal has began to take over my life and I’m loving it.

Code Dreamers

A few months ago I launch the official front end to my freelancer Drupal development.  After much consideration, I named it Code Dreamers (http://code-dreamers.com).  Since I’m not a full time developer, I’ve done my best to limit my scope of what services I offer.  With a child on the way, I didn’t want to get myself anymore over extended then I already am.  I’ve deiced to specialize in offering custom Drupal functionality.  I’m not looking to create the entire site, just add or enhance a current site/project.  My clients are other developers and designers (mostly designers).

This is a very excited endeavor for me.  Hopefully the start of a new life in development.

Taxonomy Menu

This module has consumed most of my free time.  I totally rewrote the module to use Drupal’s menu system correctly.  I’ve learned a ton about Drupal, php and open source development.  I am very proud of this module.  I have spent countless hours in the issues queue answer questions and developing new functionality.  A few other developers had submitted patches to enhance it’s functionality.  It’s great to get more involvement.  One of the featuers I’m most proudof is the API (http://drupal.org/node/380652).  Now developers can customized the menu to their hearts content.

I’m working on the next version of Taxonomy Menu already.  Some great ideas are coming form the community.  It will be easier to use with more customization.  I’m very excited about this.  Unfortunately, it’s slow coming.  I hope to have a first alpha version by the end of the month.

Blog To It

I had several conversation with the developer of Blog To It (http://blog.to.it), Tim Millwood (http://www.millwoodonline.co.uk/) over Twitter and we ended up teaming up to work on the site together.  He launched Blog To It shortly after I began working on Blogs of Indy.  I’ve decided to stop development on Blogs of Indy and focus on Blog to It instead.  Tim and I have had tossed around ideas and I’m ready to get started.

Drupal

I have began to implement new Drupal sites at my place of employment.  They have been a M$ shop for a long time and the idea of open source is very scary.  Their attitude changed very quickly when I was able to create a server and deploy a custom fully functionality website within 20 hours.  Now I’m adding more Drupal sites.   I’m hoping to make my full time job developing Drupal.