Just over 2 years ago, I was sitting in what seemed like an ever-shrinking cubicle at a major Seattle based company making updates to websites for upper management. I suppose I made a decent (average) living, and my job was secure, but at the same time I felt that I was under-challenged, under-utilized and ready for a major change in my life. Needless to say, I thought about quitting my job more than once per day (sound familiar?), but to what end?
There were countless times during my years at that company when I tried to make a difference by presenting alternative ways to implement and manage their internal network of websites. In the end, all of these ideas were either dismissed or put off on the basis that these “alternatives” were unknown, untested and unsupported open source technologies such as Joomla, WordPress, etc. Continue Reading