I started using Drupal in the early 2010's and have been pretty much solely Drupal centric since 2015. Since 2012 I have been actively involved in the Drupal ecosystem, and in more recent years very involved with DrupalCons. I'm regularly on Drupal Slack - user is NickDickinsonWilde.

From a code perspective, I've contributed probably a thousand or two commits on drupal.org.

Summary of Drupal community involvement:

  • 2020-present: Session presented at multiple DrupalCons
  • 2019-present: Session selection teams for all DrupalCon North Americas since 2019.
  • 2017-present: Sessions presented at various Drupal camps, summits and meetups as well as organization of meetups. Including Drupal GovCon, BadCamp, PNWDS and local camps.
  • 2014-present: Contributor on drupal.org - over 700 issue credits
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# Presentations

Standardizing Sites with Drupal Scaffolding

DrupalCon Pittsburgh 2023 - Audience at Nick's Session
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Learn how to use the Drupal Composer Scaffolding plugin - both customizing it in your site and creating new data sources for it to standardize and improve your site builds. Presented at DrupalCon 2023 Pittsburgh

Debugging Drupal with Xdebug

Nick speaking at DrupalCon Portland
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Xdebug is a PHP extension that can massively improve your debugging experience and speed – for both backend and frontend developers. Conversely, it can also drag down your php speed to a crawl, so you want to configure it to be a simple toggled – and only enable when you are using it. Xdebug works with most IDEs but I will be specifically showcasing usage with PHPStorm as that is what I use it with.

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