When I first heard the news that there was a Drupal fork, I was pretty surprised and doubtful. Then I heard who started the fork (Nate Haug and Jen Lampton, really respected Drupalers), and I got a lot more interested, really fast. I've been playing with Backdrop now for a couple of weeks, and have even contributed some pull requests. It's helped me understand better the rationale behind the fork, and helped me think about what might happen moving forward.
We haven't posted in way too long because we've been busy building some cool new sites, including this responsive beauty: http://jewishsocialjustice.org. And then Michelle and I went to DrupalCon Portland.
If you haven't heard, Twitter RSS is officially dead on March 5, 2013 (here it is in Twitter-corporate-speak; Mashable translation). If you're using Aggregator to pull a Twitter RSS feed into your Drupal site for pretty stylin', then you have to act now.
As developers, saying "no" to clients sounds, on it's face, like a bad idea. You want to do what the clients need, you don't want to upset them, and, frankly, you want the hours. But the truth is, in order to build websites that are cost-effective and sustainable, you have to say "no" sometimes.
Whether you belong to an organization which has, or is planning a Drupal site implementation, or a Drupal developer, you should know, and care about Symfony.
