It has been one hell of a year for me. I can remember the first day I walked into the Raincity Studios office last January (soaking wet from Vancouver rain.. who would of thought?) and sitting down with the production team (which consisted of just Erik and Mark at the time) to get my first Drupal task as their new intern.

I began working with simple snippets to help the Drupal themer's do the tasks they required. This started off as an easy position for me, displaying a certain node type by a certain role on a page, or to create next and previous buttons on image galleries from the image module. Doing these tasks showed me the Drupal world that I love today and made me see how easy Drupal can be.

After spending a few months doing snippets and helping with low level PHP, I was then handed over to Colin Brumelle of Bryght to help out with their project called Backstage. Colin gave me a few tasks to help complete the album module and gig module which is where I really started to enjoy JavaScript / AJAX development.

After a month of Backstage, I then moved on to handling full development projects for Raincity. My first project that I started on was Rapspace. Rapspace was the mother of all Drupal sites that taught me the most. This site completely introduced me to EVERYTHING of Drupal and Oooo, can't forget XMLRPC - those hours of debug were not fun! :( Having Flash and Drupal talk with XMLRPC was sure a neat task to accomplish and it showed me how to make powerful web applications integrate with a web service.

After a few solid months of working on RapSpace and continuing to help the production team with various PHP snippets, I was then given other projects like Ask A Ninja, Hope Is Emo, the new RaincityStudios.com (version 6) and DogLotion. Working with a Ninja and a crazy ski team sure was fun.. Hope Is Emo on the other hand, well, it was still fun, just not as happy :P

The new Raincity site was a big success in many ways as well. A main goal we had was to display the portfolio items in a more fashionable way and this gave me the chance to try jQuery. With the help of jQuery, I built 2 solid jQuery widgets - one is at the top of the homepage and the other is at the top of the portfolio page.

I have learned a lot from everyone at Raincity. Each person on the team has helped me grow to become a stronger person. I will always remember that and always remember these people... my vancouver family.