Ever since I found out about Node.js, I was intrigued by its potential. It had a lot of great features (ex. asynchronous I/O, event-driven, etc), but the one that stuck out the most was the ability to run Javascript on the server-side.
Instead of having to learn a server-side-only programming language (ex. PHP) and a client-side-only language (ex. Javascript - until recently), now a developer could specialize in just one language and use it everywhere. That has the potential to completely change the development landscape and many development paradigms. And it's doing exactly that.
Then came Meteor ... and I was blown away by its potential.
What a year! 2014 was my entry year in OSTraining and I couldn't be more pleased. To meet all the team and work with them daily has been really fun and instructive.
Reflecting back on 2014 with OSTraining, my mind settles on the most important decision we made for the delivery of our online training; the move to Wistia.com for hosting our videos.
I listen to hundreds of podcasts every year, while I'm driving, running or working in the garden.
Many things happened in 2014. The 
I never could have guessed that when I moved from Colorado to Portland, Oregon, it would result in my joining the OSTraining team.
At the beginning of this year, we made 
Earlier this year we wrote about some really 
One of the really interesting and scary things about this month's Drupal issue is how fast the hackers moved.
In the last couple of years, at least two popular web design sites have been hacked and had customer data stolen.
If you build websites, you're familiar with hosting control panels such as cPanel, Plesk and others. These control panels allow you to create sub domains, manage FTP users and perform many other tasks.
Discourse is new open-source discussion software.
This week 
I was watching British TV last week, and a newsreader asked if a politician should "step up to the plate".
A clear trend has emerged in the last year: developers are building simpler platforms.
Most of us dabble in project management as part of our jobs. We need to keep our projects on track and try the best we can.
9 months ago we wrote a 
I think we charge far too much for open source events.
Like many people I have a love-hate relationship with Mozilla.
This is a really fun presentation from Joomla Day Atlanta.
Two weeks ago we wrote 
Open Source hasn't had good press in recent weeks.
Over the last decade, I've spent my days teaching people how to use web software.
The Drupal Association put out 
Here at OSTraining, our business is open source and our headquarters is in Atlanta, Georgia.
A few weeks ago I wrote about