Dries Buytaert

Waves in Gijón

I'm here in Gijón (Spain) to present at the W3C's Web Fundamentals conference. I went for a walk last night to ponder about Drupal, web standards, the semantic web, and what to talk about in my session today. Good thing I carried my camera because it is stunning out here.

First birthday Axl

Exactly one year after he took his first breath, he got his first laptop ...

Just married

I've been working with Gábor Hojtsy for almost 5 years. First as a contributor to Drupal, next as my Drupal 6 co-maintainer, and more recently as a co-worker at Acquia. Yesterday, Gábor got married with Zsuzsi, so needless to say, a number of us traveled to Hungary to attend his wedding.

More pictures are available in my photo gallery.

It was really wonderful to witness and take part in their wedding. We had a great meal and party on the river banks of the beautiful Danube. Congratulations and may you continue to love one another forever!

Axl in mid air

Table soccer

Adobe Lightroom

Nikon-buddy Jeff Whatcott gave me a quick demonstration of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom when I was in Boston last week. Lightroom was clearly a winner application, so I was pleasantly surprised when Jeff hooked me up with a copy of Lightroom before I returned to Belgium on Friday evening. Although Jeff works for Acquia now, he continues to evangelize Adobe's products. ;-)

I spent a couple hours dabbling with Lightroom this morning, and I'm already in love with it. It is a lot easier than Photoshop CS which I've been struggling to master for years. Lightroom's sidebar widgets and workflow are simple yet powerful, and the non-destructive image editing and the smart saving please the engineer in me. Thanks Jeff!

Anders Bals