On April 27th, 1999, I incorporated DPCI with some very specific goals in mind. I had just completed working for a very large tech company that went belly-up for being very slipshod with their operations and way too horizontal (AKA, NO strategy). In essence, I just got tired of working for people that had no vision and were making a mess of things by just focusing on making money, not creating specific value for customers. If anyone remembers the late '90's in tech, there was a lot of that going around.

Picture this

You are managing a massive web development project. Sitting down with your client, you step through each of the requirements line-by-line. You ask your designer on the project to begin building the interface for the new website. At the end of the process, you begin merging the pretty design with the functional requirements for the website. What could go wrong?

For the past few days, I was feeling deeply troubled by the images and videos all over the Internet that show the tremendous damage that Hurricane Sandy wrought in the New York area. While I was supposed to be at a tech conference starting Thursday, I made the decision to stay here in New York to help out in any way that I could.

Here is a link to a terrific interview of Doug Vann, Drupal trainer extraordinaire, expressing his views on what is holding back mainstream Drupal adoption. In short, Drupal growth is stymied by insufficient resources in the marketplace with suitable technical skills.

Here are my responses to questions asked at an online 'town hall' meeting that occurred Tuesday, September 18th for the Drupal Association's annual Board elections. I am currently running for a seat on that board.

This year there are an incredible number of terrific candidates, so while I don't love my chances for election, I bring a different set of skills from many of the existing board members as well as those running. If elected, those who know me can attest that I will do the best job I can in representing the needs of the Drupal community.

Here's a podcast I participated in with Henrik deGyor a couple of weeks ago. My thoughts on where open source digital asset management software is and where things are going. Enjoy!

Here is a link to a webinar I participated in last week on innovations in multichannel publishing technologies. In it, I present my view of where things are headed with respect to creating and editing content in a media independent manner so that it can be delivered to print, Web, or mobile devices.

Here is a blog by digital asset management industry guru and blogger, Henrik DeGyor, on how organizations can use data to measure how well their DAM rollout is going.

Just found this article by Ron Miller of Fierce Content Management, in which he covers some of Dries Buytaert's stated goals for Drupal 8.