User:Jayallen

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About Me

Things about me that may be relevant to you:

My Movable Type and MTOS history

  • I've been "blogging" since about 1994 (back then, we called it "frequently updating your website") using, at various times, hand coded HTML, a home-grown simple CMS, Blogger and Greymatter.
  • I switched to Movable Type around version 0.8 (August 2001) and have never looked back (although I do actively maintain a copy of just about every blogging system known to man on my local machine).
  • I donate a massive amount of my time to the Movable Type Open Source (MTOS) Project as a tester, bug scrubber, documentation writer, committer, contributor, idea factory, organizer, cheerleader and irritant.
  • My [[User::Jayallen/links|links page]] gives you a glimpse of some of the things I work on, frequently visit, pay attention to or am interested in.

My professional Movable Type history

Since 2002, I have derived the vast majority (often 100%) of my income from my work with Movable Type.

Endevver Consulting

I currently run my own Movable Type consulting business – Endevver Consulting. Endevver is a full-service web development and hosting firm but our main focus is high-octane Movable Type and web application development. I use the plural there because nearly every project Endevver engages in involves not only myself in the role of Principal and Chief Architect but also a handful of highly-talented and like-minded freelancers who specialize in design, IA/UX/UI architecture, front-end development (HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc) and QA testers from the Movable Type Community.

Textura Design

Previous to starting my own company in January of this year, I served as the Application Architect for Textura Design. TDI is one of the best known consulting firms among Movable Type's Enterprise clients because they really understand the culture and needs of the Fortune 50. I continue to work with them even today on some of their deeper integration and customization projects.

Six Apart

Before that, I served two long (and rewarding!) years at the center of it all -- Six Apart -- as the Product Manager of Movable Type and Movable Type Enterprise, the latter of which was conceived of and launched during my tenure

Freelance web and web application development

What started my long history with Movable Type was actually simply website and web application development. Long before anyone had heard of Movable Type or blogging, I was using my favorite software as a foundation for site/app creation. In doing so, I introduced MT and its model for easy site maintenance to thousands of people, many of whom are still using Movable Type today. Unfortunately, far too many are still using the same exact version they started with. :-/

My Plugin Development History

  • I won the Movable Type Plugin Developer's contest grand prize with my plugin MT-Blacklist 2.0 (now defunct and no longer necessary)
  • Other than Blacklist, my two most popular plugins are Comment Challenge and NotifyWho?!. This is mainly because they are the only other plugins I had released publicly.
  • All total, I have created close to 75 plugins and extensions for Movable Type but the never-ending support requests from Blacklist users desperate to save their installations from spammers combined with my historically insanely busy work schedule made me hold back from releasing any others. However, I have dedicated myself to the massive undertaking of upgrading all of them (where still relevant) to work with Movable Type 4 and release them publicly. You can keep tabs via the Endevver Trac install.
  • I created MT-Search, the external search feature incorporated into the application. Yes, you can throw your tomatoes now. Luckily, after 4.1.5, most of my hacking has been sweetly washed away into history.
  • I hate spammers

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