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Dylan Shields

Adventures in Open Source

February 25, 2013
Jump to SVGs in Inkscape. Jump to Tables in Scribus. As a company that focuses most of our attention on developing websites, we haven't done a great job of keeping up with the desktop publishing side of computing. There can be a fair bit of crossover, as far as design approach and content structure, but there are also some major differences between preparing content for online consumption vs a nicely designed hard copy layout for any given document. I've spent the last little while brushing... Read more

BADCamp Blog 3

January 22, 2013
Check out Part 1 of my adventures in California. Or, I you have already heard about Day 1, check out Part 2 of the series. Day 3 at BADCamp started out very much the same as my first two mornings in the Bay Area. I headed out early, made my way East through the waking streets of San Francisco, and hopped aboard the BART Train to Berkely, muffin in hand. I arrived at the now familiar campus of UC Berkeley and made my way to the Pauley Ballroom with a bit of time to spare before the start of... Read more

BADCamp Blog 2

January 7, 2013
Check out Part 1 of my adventures in California.Apart from a simpler trip from San Francisco to Berkeley, day 2 of BADCamp started out much the same as day 1. The Mobile Summit was held in the same room as the UI/UX Summit. The morning's sessions were presented by John Albin Wilkins (of Zen fame) and Sam Richard, a front-end developer who currently works for NBC Universal. John's presentation was an update on the status of Drupal 8's Mobile Initiative and an overall perspective on... Read more

Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay

November 12, 2012
In mid-September 2012, we at OC heard about an upcoming Drupal event at the University of California at Berkeley called Bay Area Drupal Camp (or BADCamp). I'd been to the Bay Area the previous summer to attend the wedding of a long-time friend and my wife and I just fell in love with the area, so when the opportunity to travel back to that part of the world arose, I jumped at it. I quickly contacted my friends (who live right in the heart of San Francisco) and offered to buy them dinner. When... Read more

Dylan Shields

Drupal Developer

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Dylan had been developing web projects for over a decade when he joined OpenConcept in 2011, coming from the not-for-profit sector. While developing, he maintains a focus on streamlining the user experience for both website maintainers and visitors. Dylan is an active member of Ottawa's musical community and a hopelessly committed fan of the Ottawa Senators. He lives in Britannia Village with his wife and daughter (and his dog, Rawley).