This was my first time attending the Boulder Drupal User Group and I have to say I am very happy I went. PingVision was very inviting and willing to help me with a couple of the problems I am trying to solve for a client's site. I also learned a lot about workflow-why use macs? for example-and I got to see how others working with Drupal use their tools. These things are important to me since I am having to build, debug and tackle more difficult parts of drupal projects. I see that my workplace is using Drupal more and more. I also got a warning not to reinvent the wheel by checking drupal.org There was a discussion of Drush, Drupal Markup Engine, a demo of incorporating images into Drupal, and a discussion of taxonomy/content taxonomy and using the apache sol with Acquia's hosted service. My buddy Zach even chimed in about his frustrations with Magento, which I will take to heart since our tiny programming dept (me + another) would be the ones to make it work.

It was really informative. I wish I wasn't so tired, I would have kept up better.