DougVann.com

OK, the title is a bit foreboding. "What happened in 2009 stays in 2009" I have to say that 2009 ROCKED! When I look back at my old blogpost that reflects on 2008 I realize quickly that it keeps getting better and better. We end the year with TYLER at age 13, Chloe at 11, Avery at 10, and Alexa at 9!

Family

Mrs. Vann [aka Michelle] continues to homeschool our 4 children. We all crackup everytime she has to explain that she "doesn't work" yet we all know that raising the 4 Vann kids is more than a full time job. Oh yah... She takes pretty good care of Mr.

My blogsite has been up since April 2008 and I'm finaly adding a page to explain who I am...

BIO

Born 1971 and raised in Indianapolis Indiana.  Graduated Warren Central 1990.  Married my beautiful wife in 1996 now we have 4 children aged 8 to 13.

GEEK STORY

Got a Commodore64 in 1983. Taught myself to program in BASIC. Wrote a database app for my church in 1984 and a "what color is your parachute" app for my highschool in 1986. Took Fortran and Pascal classes in highschool.

Just a quick blog post today.
All is well at the not-so-new job. I've been with www.DuoConsulting.com a little over 2 months and they have sent me to LA, Atlanta, and Ohio to deliver Drupal training.
Drupal Camp Atlanta
Two weekends ago I enjoyed the 1st ever Atlanta Drupal Camp.

Are you ready for some incredible training that takes 12hrs across 6 weeks, and when it's done, you get to keep the audio/video files of it all? Oh yah.... You get to do this ALL from your home or office! No Traveling! :-)
http://www.lullabot.com/workshop/drupal-fundamentals-online-workshop/onl...

I'm going to continue on with my series of blogs whereby I spotlight some incredible resources to turn you into a Drupal Ninja!

Seriously....
I run into people all the time who want to learn how to leverage the awesome power of Drupal. Often, they want to learn as much as they can AND as quickly as possible.
There's NO reason why any one can't get exactly what they want out of Drupal. The abundance of resources is OVERWHELMING.
There is NO SHORTAGE of free screencasts and podcasts and tutorials and online recipes, etc. Most of them are good and many are even great!
However...
If you really want to get wet, you need to jump in the deep-end!

You can see my head popping out of the crowd [upper left] in the group photo at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rainbreaw/3808206760/ Screecasts of the sessions are at http://replay.nacs.uci.edu/public/?C=M;O=D

Thanks to the generous sponsorship of www.DuoConsulting.com I fly out next Friday for one of the biggest [if not THE biggest] North American DrupalCamps. Visit the site and see what all the excitement is about.

Alrighty folks...
It is IMPOSSIBLE to keep up with Doug Vann. Your best efforts are inadequate for the task. I blog. I tweet. I share at our local events as well as abroad.... But you still never know exactly what ol' Doug is up to, for the most part...
Here's the skinny:

Today I start my 1st day with Chicago based Duo Consulting! www.DuoConsulting.com

It's been a whirl wind gang, so strap in and hold on tight!

In addition to doing my own amount of business with a few select partners, I have also taken a some work with a major Drupal Shop www.trellon.org
I left the project of www.apbspeakers.com when the work load wasn't enough for both Ray Stuart and me.

--1st the Drupal part then below is the personal part!---
In 3 hours I will arrive at the offices of www.problogservice.com at 5348 N. Tacoma, Indianapolis where we will have our 3rd Indy Drupal HackFest. Over 20 of us will get together from across Indiana and the Ohio cities of Cincinnati and Columbus. The purpose will be to spend 4 hours just feeding off of each other. In the past it has been mostly Drupal, But Linux, SVN, computer fixing, OS repair, etc. occurs as well.
This will be awesome!