She's a little rough, but I don't think I much mind that at this stage.

So, instead of actually doing the work that I need to get done I'm doing the next best thing - learning Illustrator.

Here is my very first Illustrator creation. I'm calling her Matilda. She makes me happy.

I absolutely adore simple cartoon illustrations and find a ton of inspiration in them. It seemed sort of wrong to me for many years and I thought that I needed to have a more mature style to consider myself an artist of any sort. I guess as I come into my own more I realize that I'm doing what I do best when I do what comes naturally to me. So I am hoping that there are more colorful illustrations to come.

I've long said that there is a whole lot of feel-goodery in the Drupal community. It's taken me awhile to come to appreciate this fact, but I have in my own way. When I say feel-goodery, I mean that people are, for the most part, diplomatic and patient to a fault. There is a general sense of goodwill and a whole lot of back-patting. Which is great. It's infectious.

I, however, am totally not that person. I like to think of myself as a friendly person who gives credit where it is due and typically makes a net positive contribution to anything I involve myself in; which is a decision that I never take lightly. Something I lack that many in the community possess is diplomacy. When there are names to be named, I name them. If there is something that is on the collective mind but is not a palatable thing to say, I say it. It is for this reason that I don't get as involved in the Drupal NYC community as I would like to be.

As I am lucky to have a bunch of communal space in my building I'm holding a co-working session! Join me for a fun filled day of... well, work... on Thursday, June 10th from 10am to 6pm. The space has ample table room as well as comfy couches and even outdoor space if the weather is nice. Wifi is available in all of the areas. Bonus: skee ball breaks!

I figure I could probably have up to six people join us. Please comment below with your number in line if you'd like to join. For example, if you're the first commenter to reserve a spot, claim "1". Once there are six the session is full. Please don't come if you do not comment! I can only have a limited number of guests.

We're at The Brooklyner, 111 Lawrence St. Brooklyn. Come on up to the 4th floor.

Take the R to Lawrence St, the A, C, F to Jay St/Borough Hall or the 2, 3 to Hoyt St.

If it's a hit I'm happy to organize these semi-frequently.

I recently did a little design in the browser experiment to come up with my web based resume and have desperately needed a new blog theme for awhile. I mean, the last one might have broken world records by being created in an hour and fifteen minutes, but I needed something better thought out. I had a lot of fun creating this one in the browser, too, and have Mason to thank for making me think twice about doing so.

This little number took the better part of the past 24 hours, but I'm proud of the level of detail I was able to get to during that time. I'd like to think that this is one of those themes that users will find themselves delighted with every so often as they notice another obscure piece that is more polished than your average theme.

I am working to dissect a subtheme of Zen that has grown hairy and very, very complicated and make it into its own self-contained theme. There are some scary tentacles that this theme has grown into Zen and a plethora of custom modules.

So, naturally, when I did a port of the subtheme as is - renamed preprocess functions and the .info file to reflect the name of my new theme - I expected to look at something fairly broken. After working through various PHP errors, I got to a place where I was looking at a rendered Drupal page, albeit in need of quite a bit of work to look like the desired site.