We have made it a full year since our first post – Introductions, we’ve grown by leaps and bounds and now have many followers. I want to thank all of you that have subscribed to our feeds and those that have reciprocated backlinks. We are still looking for others that would like to contribute via our blog to the online community.

Authors with relevant posts are permitted tracklinks to their site as well. If interested, reply to this post and provide your email address. Congratulations again to all those that have contributed materials as this has been a team effort.

Keep up the great work and let’s keep the momentum rolling.

I’m looking for a couple authors that are also interested in contributing back to the community. We all receive a lion-share of input, utilities and resource from the online community and this blog is designed to be a forum to allow us to give back.

It’s not mandatory that the posts be long and since this is wordpress, we’re happy to take posts from a wide array of topics as tagging and categorizing are built in. The requirements are minimal. Of course, we ask that you have a technical background so that the posts are related to technology. Within that scope, we are open to desktop support, programming, new technological advances, articles on resolving worms/virus issues. security alerts, etc.

If you’re interested, reply to this post or send an email to shaun-at-olebox-com. I am excited to open this up to a broader forum and look forward to reading the articles that our community contributes.

Of course, we are a free forum of volunteers with the focus of being an open resource for end users. Unfortunately we do have expenses (hosting/broadcasting) we ask that you visit our ad sponsors to help us cover these re-occuring fees.

- Shaun

Let’s start off with an introduction. If you made it here, you most-likely already know who I am. With a previous employer, my responsibility was to manage various web projects; which includes, the project management, personnel management and the actual higher level programming required. I’m still in the industry, but no longer am employed by a web hosting firm. Enough about my past, please allow me to explain my experience.

I started out building projects using Coldfusion and picked up some fusebox along the way. Since I started in the industry, I’ve advanced my knowledge of coldfusion to include object oriented programming, in that case using Coldfusion Components. I also started using Javascript; including the prototype and scriptaculous libraries to integrate many advanced features, such as Edit in Place, AJAX, etc.

After a while, I started looking into other frameworks. I found that Ruby on Rails has a substantial advantage to programmers looking to build using O.O. (Object Oriented) Theory. This was a great framework for smaller applications, but found that in larger scale applications it requires more overhead. I had a lot of difficulty with garbage collection.

I now primarily build in PHP, using classes and functions for content management. While with Coldfusion, I was using SQL Server 2000; I now primarily build using MySQL as the database server. I also build using table-less HTML to meet w3c standards that require tables to only be used for tablular data.

Well, thats enough of an intro on me. As time progresses, I’m certain that everybody will learn a lot more about my talents and experience as I look forward to sharing those details. If you found my support helpful, please help our sponsors out through the google ads as they help to cover our hosting fees. Both myself and the companies appreciate it!