Hello,
I’ve been muckin with MODx for almost a month now and thought it was time to say hi to y’all. Many times over the past few years I’ve reviewed and tested a number of CMS’s and always ended up just creating what I needed from scratch. I recently got a gig to develop a quite extensive ezine and as a lone wolf I had to enter the CMS arena again to produce a large site in short order.
After a lot of consideration Textpattern was my final choice. It would require the least amount of wizardry to look and function the way I wanted. Through a consultation with the oracle (google) I came across MODx. I spent two weeks going through the code of 3 different CMS’s to see which would best implement the ezine. It took about two hours to switch to MODx. Nice job people! Now I don’t have to hack anything up - coding [!snippets!] will do just fine.
Deep gratitude to the MODx developers and contributors. I will contribute where ever I can and of course the more time I spend with MODx, quality and quantity will improve. I have a number of web projects in the works that will really benefit from MODx and hopefully the project will too. Mi casa su casa!
Enough about how I got here. A little about me now.
I’m 34 and have been working as a geek of all trades for the last 14 years in the arts and non-profit sectors. I started on a used Mac IIsi ( 2000 bucks plus another $900 for 16MB of used RAM ). To show off to all my friends that could afford IIci’s I switched the crystal to speed that puppy up to a whoppin 27.5Mhz!
I’ve been very fortunate that my jobs have taken me down many avenues of technology and have given me the freedom to learn and experiment with all manner of media and dissemination. I’ve worked with audio / video in a variety of ways (??), multimedia and enhanced cdroms ( when they were the thing! ), a variety of websites and live internet events, etc... I’m truly a geek of all trades ( as they say - master of none though ).
I recently left the arts and the big city for a small town and freelance whatever (lots of fishing too). I’m in the beautiful Comox Valley of British Columbia, Canada. I’m a bit of a bumpkin and thats where the digitalhillbilly thang came from. What else would you get when you cross a geek with a yokel. I tried it out a few times in the past but not until recently has high speed net access been prevalent in rural areas. Mmmmmm high speed internet.
My name is Jay. Call me that, hillbilly, dh, whatever you like.
Yours in geekery,
dh
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Welcome to the family, and hang on for a wild ride! MODx is great now, it’s only going to get better!
I’m a real mountain girl, grew up in the 1960’s in the woods of Northern California’s High Sierras, rode my horse to the post office every couple of days, and travelled 20 miles to high school, becoming the first member of my family to finish high school, wore hip-hugger bell-bottoms and played guitar (never did drugs or alcohol though; can’t stand not knowing what’s going on), so I guess you could call me a hillbilly AND a hippy
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