Who is a Good Drupal Developer?
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The document outlines the skills required for a good Drupal developer, including both hard skills such as proficiency in tools like rules, views, and panels, and soft skills like communication and leadership. It emphasizes the importance of continuous practice, community support, and engagement with client's business. Additionally, it touches on the evolution of a developer's role from technical contributions to managerial responsibilities.
Who is a Good Drupal Developer?
- 1. @kalabro Edition Who is a Good Drupal Developer?
- 3. Hard / Soft skills Junior Middle Senior Can write code Nice guy
- 4. Hard skills 1. Toolset: Rules, Views, Panels, Commerce, ... How: watch screencasts
- 5. Hard skills 1. Toolset: Rules, Views, Panels, Commerce, ... How: watch screencasts 2. Drupal Core Concepts: Entities, Fields, Tokens, Routing, ... How: read Drupal 7 Deconstructed
- 6. Hard skills 1. Toolset: Rules, Views, Panels, Commerce, ... How: watch screencasts 2. Drupal Core Concepts: Entities, Fields, Tokens, Routing, ... How: read Drupal 7 Deconstructed 3. Code quality How: contribute to Drupal.org
- 7. Hard skills 1. Toolset: Rules, Views, Panels, Commerce, ... How: watch screencasts 2. Drupal Core Concepts: Entities, Fields, Tokens, Routing, ... How: read Drupal 7 Deconstructed 3. Code quality How: contribute to Drupal.org 4. Dev-Ready Environment How: git, IDE, Xdebug, command line
- 8. Hard skills 1. Toolset: Rules, Views, Panels, Commerce, ... How: watch screencasts 2. Drupal Core Concepts: Entities, Fields, Tokens, Routing, ... How: read Drupal 7 Deconstructed 3. Code quality How: contribute to Drupal.org 4. Dev-Ready Environment How: git, IDE, Xdebug, command line 5. Practise, Practise, Practise How: side project, Stack Overflow, personal blog, sessions at tech events
- 9. Generalizing Specialist Technical skills outside of Drupal scope: - DevOps - Performance - Design / Frontend - Third-parties - Testing / CI - Databases / Data Analysis - Other frameworks
- 10. Nice Technically Brave Guy 💪 ~3 years
- 11. What's next? Personal grow / Market demand
- 12. Suddenly you've got what you wanted and it wasn't what you expected More authority to make decisions More autonomy Talk directly to the client Manage people Be the “main” person on the room Money ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- 13. Suddenly you've got what you wanted and it wasn't what you expected Half a day you are writing (emails, documentation, tech concepts). Half a day you are listening and thinking. Half a day you are answering and forwarding questions. In the night, you are writing some code In spare time, read a book about productivity ¯_(ツ)_/¯ More authority to make decisions More autonomy Talk directly to the client Manage people Be the “main” person on the room Money ¯_(ツ)_/¯ — Nobody told me! (in fact they did)
- 14. Soft skills
- 15. The secret ingredient is...
- 16. ...and communication, management, planing, leadership, business acumen, ...
- 17. 1. Love tools that help you earn your bread Bring some love to your code
- 18. 1. Love tools that help you earn your bread. 2. Love the community behind it Bring some love to your code
- 19. 1. Love tools that help you earn your bread 2. Love the community behind it 3. Love the project you are working on Bring some love to your code
- 20. 1. Love tools that help you earn your bread 2. Love the community behind it 3. Love the project you are working on 4. Love client's business Bring some love to your code
- 21. 1. Love tools that help you earn your bread 2. Love the community behind it 3. Love the project you are working on 4. Love client's business 5. Love 💵 , yours and client's Bring some love to your code
- 22. 1. Love tools that help you earn your bread 2. Love the community behind it 3. Love the project you are working on 4. Love client's business 5. Love 💵 , yours and client's 6. Love the team you are working with Bring some love to your code
- 24. In spare time... 1. Programming: Love It or Leave It http://blog.codinghorror.com/programming-love-it-or-leave-it/ 2. Swiss Army Knife or Generalizing Specialist http://blog.codinghorror.com/swiss-army-knife-or-generalizing-specialist/ 3. Always Be Respondin' http://mikecr.it/ramblings/always-be-respondin 4. Где ответственность, или кто такой Senior Software Engineer http://dou.ua/lenta/articles/seniority/
- 25. Bring some love to your code
- 26. marshalkina@gmail.com / @kalabro Almost Senior Drupal Developer