The year was 2008. I was a senior in high school, and I had been running a web development business with a longtime friend for two years. During this time, my partner and I had produced over half a million lines of code for our in-house CMS.
PhpStorm 6.0 came out yesterday, and it's very very nice. One of the cool new features is that it can connect to what it calls a "Generic" task server. This is for services that Jetbrains has not built service-specific integration for yet.
Have a pet problem that you need help with, but don't have the resources to hire somebody to work on it? This Saturday at 1pm and 1:30pm MST, I'm going to pick two people to give 1-on-1 support to via Google Hangouts.
Due to some unresolved interpersonal issues, I am no longer participating in Drupal core development in any capacity. If you run across a core issue that's assigned to me, feel free to take it over.
This weekend (March 2-4, 2012), I competed in the Boise State University Appathon. This is a 48 hour competitive coding contest, wherein teams are tasked to create either a web app or a mobile app that has some relation to student life.