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This is my first week at Acquia, and I have to admit that I'm surprised to be here. Despite my commitments of time and code to Drupal over the last couple years, I was also working full time as a scientist at a start-up that is a spin-off from the lab where I did my post-doc.
A number of my friends and family have done a bit of a double-take when I told them my plans - usually something along the lines of "but that's nothing like your current job!?". So, that's true, but I'm excited to be here. I've enjoyed programming since elementary school, and I seriously considered majoring in CS as an undergraduate.
I've learned a lot from the Drupal community and I'm looking forward to being part of Acquia and to being able to spend more time with great members of the Drupal community both here at Acquia and around the world.
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It is that phase of my life! I'm just turning 30 in a month, working with Drupal for 7 years and just had my third Acquia anniversary a week ago. Time to look back and evaluate how things went, all the good and bad things; even better if the wisdom can be shared with others. This was part of my thinking when I submitted the session titled "Come for the software, stay for the community" for Drupalcon Copenhagen.
Gábor HojtsyIt sounded like a really simple request: "Is it easy to add a search filter for 'My posts'?". In other words, add a search result facet for posts by the current (logged in) user through the Apache Solr Search Integration module APIs?
But then the wheels start turning - we want not just one blind link, but a real facet link that tells us how many results we'll get. Also, if we are filtering by 'My posts' then we probably have an equal use case for the opposite filter 'Posts not by me'. So we really need a facet block with two links and facets counts.
Peter Wolanin
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Terrific move, Peter. You
Terrific move, Peter. You have contributed so much as a part timer! I'm impressed. Good luck in your journey ...
Robert Douglass
We did a lot of jumping
We did a lot of jumping around and "w00t"ing when Peter finally said "Yes". Welcome to the team, Peter!
Dries Buytaert
Welcome to the team, Peter!
Welcome to the team, Peter! :)
Not a bit surprised, Peter,
Not a bit surprised, Peter, since you were reading (and absorbing) programming manuals over weekend visits not long after your teething stage - I guess your co-workers will also discover you brew a fine beer, have GREAT sense of humor and are active in environmental and political/peace issues. (Not your average, brainy one-dimensional genius/geeky type!) Good luck on your exciting career move!
Jerad Bitner
Brew beer? Any chance we
Brew beer? Any chance we could get a sample for an episode of DrupaLMAO?
Peter - Congrats! It is
Peter - Congrats!
It is great to see someone follow thier heart and thier mind!!!! The adventure begins!
All the best, It feels so
All the best, It feels so good to read this entry. Your blog entry remind me of Con kolivas, a practicing doctor, who made important contributions to O(1) scheduler of linux .. Open source is such a beautiful thing, that I think even one is a management person with love for code,can actually have a wife and a mistress :) obviously wife is code :P
Great going, I whole heartedly wish success to you .. Thanks for your work :)
Caleb Gilbert
Congratulations Peter - you
Congratulations Peter - you were one of the first and nicest people to reach out to me a few years ago when I first got involved with Drupal (I'm sure you probably don't remember, but I do). It's been fun watching everyone progress since that time (you were fairly new to Drupal yourself at the time I think), but I believe you're still managing to stay one up on me in a relative terms. (meaning you were ahead of my Drupal abilities and accomplishments then and continue to be!) :-)
Congratulations Peter - may
Congratulations Peter - may the world of full-time Drupal be truly yours!
Congratulations Peter. I am
Congratulations Peter.
I am one who "jumped" from one career to computing (decades ago), and never looked back.
Acquia is lucky, and you too ...