Before I started working for Home Depot I was an ASP developer for Gardener’s Supply and Burton Snowboards. I drank a lot of Microsoft kool-aid in those days and was an early adopter of asp.net. Since I was using Microsoft tools at work I never paid attention to any of the open source projects going on in PHP and more recently Ruby on Rails. It was not until I installed Wordpress for this blog did I realize how far these applications had come! So I have ditched my Microsoft allegiance and have started working with some great open source projects like modX and Magento. I am exited to start learning some of these new tools and to start working with PHP and Ruby. My first project was to convert my basic consulting website template over to PHP 
Daily Archive for December 30th, 2007
I like goals. Let’s see if I can hit them:
- Avgerage 2 posts a week
- 50,000 visits
- 100 people to tell me they found this information useful
The buzz in 2007 was all about web apps. Taking things that traditional desktop software handled and moving them online and enabling people to access them anywhere. I have created a new category called web applications and will be posting some reviews that highlight the very best. Here are some links to 2 past reviews I did:
Blogging: Wordpress is Awesome
Photo Sharing: Smugmug Photo Sharing
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