Meet Your Nerd Herd

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Nick Tabick on June 10, 2009 at 8:36pm

Feel free to get in touch with me with questions about the following with whatever method of communication you prefer.

Blogging: Several CMS/blogging platforms (including some out-of-the-way products like Concrete5 and hl--, and especially WordPress (both free and self-hosted varieties)), hosting, HTML, PHP, CSS, and most other things.
Other Software: Just about everything you've ever heard of, and most things you haven't. I'm especially fluent with the Windows and Linux (UNIX) sides of life, but I can hold my own in the world of Apple, too.
Hardware: Chances are, I've got it in my basement. (In other words, ask about anything.)

And before you ask, I'm in school for computer science, I do web development and the whole "Geek Squad" spiel on the side, and I'm involved with enough tech projects to keep me busy.

Permalink Reply by Nick Tabick on June 10, 2009 at 9:40pm

Err, I mean that in terms of experience. ;)

Permalink Reply by nicopolitan on June 12, 2009 at 3:36pm

Linux rocks my socks off -- especially Ubuntu. Man, we've come a long way since Mandrake first came out.

Permalink Reply by Nick Tabick on June 12, 2009 at 5:25pm

I first got started on Mandrake. I didn't know what I was doing then, but I did find several ways to unintentionally own a box.

(Don't worry, I've come a LOOONG way since then. ;) )

Permalink Reply by Phil on June 12, 2009 at 6:29pm

The only Linux I've used extensively is Red Hat. Because my old laptop is an iBook running a PPC processor, I'm thinking of trying out Gentoo on it.

Permalink Reply by Phil on June 11, 2009 at 3:24am

I'm a pretty huge Mac junkie but I can handle PCs and though I'm not a huge fan, I do Windows pretty well, for the most part. I also have limited experience using Linux; I should be improving in that area, as once I retrieve all my data from my poor old iBook G4, I have every intention of giving it a thorough overhaul and I may even throw Linux on there just to see how it handles it. Despite a complete and utter lack of formal training, I'm skilled in HTML, CSS, PHP, Photoshop, some Dreamweaver (that's a work in progress at the moment). I generally work in WordPress but am familiar with Blogger. I don't have a degree in anything computer-related, it's all just a hobby for me, and whoah, is it ever growing into a bigger and bigger hobby all the time.

There'll be more to come, I'm sure, but that's about all for now. :)

Permalink Reply by nicopolitan on June 12, 2009 at 3:53pm

Coding: Advanced understanding of D/HTML, CSS. Working knowledge of PHP, Javascript, AJAX, XML.

Common Processes: FTP, domains, hosting, media compression/optimization (video, images), email setup (Mac/PC), syndication services (Podcasts / RSS / etc.)

Metrics: Google Analytics / AdWords, Nielsen, Quantcast, Compete, Alexa.

Blogging: Mostly WP, Blogger, and Movable Type.

Creative: Adobe Products (all, except maybe After Effects), Audio software (musician-related, podcast related) and recording best-practices.

Huh. That kinda looks like my resume.

Also, I think I also want to start a thread for requested expertise(s), because although we cover a lot of ground in this group already, there's always oh so much more we can do with different skillsets. For instance, does anyone know Cocoa or Python? I bet our 20SB peeps could definitely think of projects they'd like to use those for. Then we can go on a hunt outside this network and round up bloggers to join our network who already have that skill.

What do we think about that?

Permalink Reply by Maxie on January 9, 2010 at 2:48pm

I'm not sure that I'm very useful, but if anyone needs help, I'm here. I'll at least pretend to know what's going on.

You can come to me for help with:

Wordpress: I've been using it for about 2.5 years, so I *think* I have the hang of it by now.

HTML Crap: Somehow I still remember the stuff from my very first website back in the 1990s.

Image editing: I don't use photoshop, but corel paint shop pro x2 is my biatch.

General blogging awesomeness tips: self explanatory.