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On Drupal.org for 9 years 5 months
Over 50 edits to documentation
As Backend Drupal Manager with Taoti Creative, I am responsible for a team working on a variety of concurrent projects - rarely less than a 15 in any week. When not supporting my team, I am the primary maintainer for our company dev-ops systems, and somehow fit in heads down coding time as well as. On my own builds I primarily do backend code and site building, but also participate in both estimates and planning of projects/features. I am unnofficially our evangelizer for Drupal contributions.
Due to freelance history, I have and can do it all codewise - just don't ask me to design something I lack an eye for what looks good - but have a preference for backend code. Do note that 'can do' and fast and with expertise aren't quite the same thing - at this point I'm a bit behind on latest front end fun although I can do grid and certainly handy with flex boxes.
"Community taught" is my background. First got into coding with HTML sometimes with Server Side Includes... tables win for layout right 😜. My more formal coding started with modding for The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind and then the Elders Scrolls IV Oblivion - where I had the good fortune to get significant mentoring predominantly in Python - also used Tescript which is a Bethesda special kinda like JavaScript (looooosely).
Later I started doing freelance web services - including building my own custom PHP based CMS - and then around 2014 discovered Drupal and by 2015 was all Drupal when possible (although I still occasionally support things in WP or other more esoteric platforms). Since then I've been active in issues queues, IRC (2014-2016) and now Slack (2016-ongoing) and have switched to a full time agency role from freelance. I have over 300 issue credits and maintain a bunch of modules for better or worse. First Drupal 8 production site launched halloween of 2015.
Recent large scale web projects I've been involved with include:
Dev-ops Session Team Member for DrupalCon 2020 NorthAmerica, and scheduled to speak in the Development & Coding Track: Extending views - views plugins
When not coding, I hang out on Southern Vancouver Island and bike and hike a fair bit. Black belt in Kimura Shukokai Karate, I consider teaching to be quite awesome whether it is little kids or adults - karate or code.
Documentation guides
- Views Slideshow - Developer Tutorials
- Views Slideshow - Developer Tutorials
- Views Slideshow - Theming
- Contributed module documentation - Advanced CSS/JS Aggregation
- Contributed module documentation - Color Field
- Contributed module documentation - Views Slideshow
- Contributed modules - Views Slideshow
✓ Can opt projects into security advisory coverage
Events organized
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Credited on 605 fixed issues
- Hide Revision Field, 17 issues
- Footnotes, 1 issue
- Drupal core, 91 issues
- Time Field for Drupal 8/9/10, 1 issue
- Mentor the mentor, 1 issue
- Social Link Field, 7 issues
- API, 6 issues
- Entity tasks, 3 issues
- DrupalCon Pittsburgh 2023 , 7 issues
- Entity Clone, 2 issues
- Spambot , 7 issues
- Project Browser, 1 issue
- Drupal.org infrastructure, 1 issue
- Field States UI, 49 issues
- FitVids, 4 issues
- Exif, 5 issues
- Recreate Block Content, 1 issue
- A11Y Paragraphs Tabs, 5 issues
- Quick Tabs, 1 issue
- Media Directories, 1 issue
- Contribution Events, 1 issue
- Sub-pathauto (Sub-path URL Aliases), 5 issues
- Drupal 8 Contrib Porting Tracker, 2 issues
- NG Lightbox, 5 issues
- Colorbox Load, 4 issues
- Easy Breadcrumb, 3 issues
- Views Slideshow, 65 issues
- Reference Date Combo Field, 1 issue
- Entity Reference Filtering Link, 8 issues
- Advanced CSS/JS Aggregation, 63 issues
- Color Field, 76 issues
- Entity Reference Ajax Formatter, 5 issues
- Colorbox Inline, 12 issues
- Stage File Proxy, 1 issue
- Chaos Tool Suite (ctools), 1 issue
- Migrate Conditions, 1 issue
- Advanced Email Validation, 1 issue
- Media OpenGraph, 1 issue
- securitydrupalorg, 1 issue
- Drupal Diversity, 10 issues
- Search 404, 1 issue
- Coder, 1 issue
- Entity Access Password, 1 issue
- Projects Stats, 1 issue
- DrupalCon Portland 2022, 1 issue
- Entity Redirect, 13 issues
- Single Page Site, 2 issues
- CAPTCHA, 1 issue
- Term Merge Manager, 1 issue
- Block field, 1 issue
- Alert Box, 1 issue
- Taxonomy Revision UI, 2 issues
- Webform, 4 issues
- Search API Solr, 1 issue
- Autofill fields, 1 issue
- Drupal 7 to 8/9/10 Module Upgrader, 3 issues
- Drupal.org customizations, 1 issue
- Bay Area Drupal Camp, 1 issue
- Select 2, 1 issue
- replaced by DANSE, 1 issue
- DrupalCon Global 2020, 1 issue
- Views Reference Field, 3 issues
- Schema.org Metatag, 1 issue
- Ajax Add to Cart, 1 issue
- DropzoneJS, 1 issue
- Matomo Analytics, 1 issue
- Image Optimize, 1 issue
- Taxonomy Menu, 3 issues
- Add to Cal, 1 issue
- Honeypot, 1 issue
- DBLog Pager, 3 issues
- Inline Entity Form, 1 issue
- Layout Builder Restrictions, 1 issue
- DrupalCon Minneapolis 2020, 23 issues
- Event Organizers Working Group, 1 issue
- Olivero, 1 issue
- Select2 Widget, 1 issue
- Views GeoJSON, 2 issues
- Backup and Migrate, 1 issue
- Commerce Repeat Order, 5 issues
- Facets Block, 1 issue
- Commerce Core, 1 issue
- Views (for Drupal 7), 1 issue
- Commerce Migrate, 1 issue
- Field Group, 2 issues
- Migrate Git, 1 issue
- IMCE, 1 issue
- Migrate Plus, 1 issue
- User Guide, 2 issues
- Better Exposed Filters, 2 issues
- Entity Embed, 2 issues
- Image Effects, 1 issue
- Victoria BC (YYJ) Drupal Meetups, 1 issue
- Search API Pantheon, 1 issue
- Allow a content type only once (Only One), 1 issue
- Geofield Map, 1 issue
- Facets, 1 issue
- Documentation, 1 issue
- Entity Construction Kit (ECK), 1 issue
- Neato, 1 issue
- CSV Serialization, 1 issue
- Colorbox, 2 issues
- Tribune, 2 issues
- Schema, 1 issue
- Automatic Entity Label, 3 issues
- Commerce Braintree, 1 issue
- Bluecheese, 1 issue
- Drupal.org security advisory coverage applications, 1 issue
Projects maintained
NickDickinsonWilde helps support and grow the Drupal community with the Drupal Association.
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