Using Open Source for Fun and Profit
summary
Tracks a concrete career path: using PHP and Zen Framework 1 and 2, building a Clan site, a Flash promotion for Intel, a digital‑signage backend that replaces commented‑out feature gating, fixing Y2K spreadsheets, and moving from contractor to developer advocate. Documents the moment a tiny technical change — a three‑character regex fix — becomes a first merged pull request (11 Nov 2011) that gets added to a CV, and spells out practical contribution routes: tests, docs, triage, and real code reviews.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:54The Y2K bug
- 5:58Active Server Pages
- 7:20Personal Homepage
- 9:43Lowkey Developer
- 11:28Fulltime Job
- 12:57Design Framework
- 15:08Freenode
- 15:50PHP Southwest
- 17:53Micro Cotton Games
- 25:45PHP Northwest 2012
- 29:18Contributing
- 31:26Expert
- 34:05Rollroll
- 35:58Back to main room
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