Two months ago I got a regular job. My first regular job (regular as in not short-term contract work). Two months ago I got hired by a company named Efero LLP, in Edinburgh, Scotland, where I moved this year February. We started to work on a social networking site, built on Drupal. The specifications were shocking at first, and at second. Later, it shocked us even more. We had to turn Drupal inside out to accomplish our highly customized theming requirements, and build our own, soon to be published lightweight networking engine. It was not an easy work. Last weeks we worked at least 12 hours per day, on the last days i was often at the office until 2-3 am.

But it was worth it. Not only the challange that I greatly enjoyed, but the great company at the company (hoho) too. The deadline was 1st of June. The site was released with numerous bugs, which we fought mercilessly until we got them down to an acceptable level, by today afternoon. Some people hated it at first, some still hate it. The site is a mixtur of a news and a social networking site, aimed at migrant Polish living in the UK (as a focus of news), or elsewhere. We switched from an ASP based forum/classified/business directory, that was built 4 years ago. It was liked thanks to its sleak and easy-to-use interface, and great speed.

The switch wasnt easy. Those four people who follow me on twitter witnessed my frustration when our server provider went down for bloody 16 hours, right on Monday, the day after the launch. But we survived, I survived, even the depresssion caused by reading the site bashing polish comments via google translate, and now we are running full speed ahead, adding new features every week.

Now I am proudly showing you this work: Emito.

Hint: we’re using i18n, so just change the pl part of the url to en, and voila you have english interface ;)

On a sidenote: i was wondering if people would like to hear a talk about it on DrupalCon, the all the dev team is likely going to Szeged. Would you like us to propose a session?