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Finally done my upgrade to drupal 7.. I've been using drupal 7 at work and was wondering why I never got around to updating it.. now that I have, I love it.. I'm glad I got back into the drupal thing.. still a great CMS, and has been getting better since I last touched it.

more work related updates to follow.

I've been looking forward to this for at least a year. I'd been beta testing Drupal 7 for a while but never really thought it was stable enough to use on my blog.. Now that I've built a few sites in D7, I am confident in D7 dev and administration abilities to make the switch.. I'll be spending the weekend going through the updating steps a few times before making the final plunge on the production server.

Anyone have any tips how to deal with the D6-D7 migration? Leave a comment below.

I'll be blogging again very soon.. stay tuned.

I put my resume online as a resource for principle companies to find me with an offer of an interview for full time or contract work. However, I've been getting several calls from recruiters who think they have a right to call me at all hours of the day to put me into a high pressure situation so they can make commission and pass me around like a commodity.

Just for kicks I decided I wanted to update my resume.. I thought it would be a bit nostalgic to go through my work history and reminisce on my previous work experience. What I enjoyed, what I hated.. where i would be if i stayed at a certain company, etc.. I began to realize how truly import work experience is on a resume, in comparison to education or strategically placed keywords.

In the past 15 months at the company I'm at, I learned a lot about the business of software development.. software development as a discipline.. know what I mean? I noticed that small things that I didn't have at other companies go a long way with what I have at this company.. For example, some places I worked at that didn't have a version control system in place added a lot of frustration to the development process that could have been solved if just 1 person put there foot down and said "we're learning SVN!"