Aaron Stewart has been a pioneer in online technology since 1996. His many achievements include the development of some of the first ajax driven applications, the Alexa Toolbar, and the Alexa Web Information Service available on amazon.com. He has exensive experience in enterprise application development, and joins the Drupal community as a principal in WorkHabit, Inc. after many years of developing XML driven applications using Java.
Aaron is the primary developer of AutoPilot, as well as having offered many patches and contributions to the drupal community, such as the FormCorral api.
The possibilities for more exciting and friendly interfaces in Drupal has never looked better. jQuery 1.2 will be included in Drupal 6, as will the new AHAH form extentions. jQuery UI is about to be released, and has the potential to be the standard UI library that Drupal has lacked. Drag and drop, trees, and modular popups, oh my.
I’d like to pull together a panel of folks who have been doing interface/jQuery work, and we can all present some state-of-the-art examples and chat about the future.
I am a new web producer here on campus and have some interesting Drupal work available. We have a site redesign in process, and are going to convert to Drupal while we are at it. All details are posted here. Drupal Ninja’s strongly encouraged to respond!
My background is in people and process. I’ve worked in technology since 1996 but in that time I’ve also done 7 years of schooling and work in the humanities: organizational development, people process planning, and all manner of things having to do with how people interact with their world in that sort of … real…non-virtual way. You know, like when you walk through a glass door that looked like it was open? Things like that.
I’d like to share a few thoughts about “market listening.” Drupal intelligence is systems intelligence. If you are a Drupal Ninja then you can be 85% certain you have an intelligence that can be applied in other fields of work. I’d like to share with you a few other Open Source initiatives then need resources and talent. This is a way to file and sort ad serve all of those random people you meet who don’t get web development but say things like “I want to make the world a better place but I’m an architect (or accountant or something else.) Help those folks get involved in Open Source GLobal Liberation!