I have always been interested in computers, and would find myself hanging out with the Computer Science students instead of the Aviation Management or Business Management students I was a part of. At home and at work I have been largely self-teaching myself using computers starting with Excel and Access with VBA through ASP and SQL at work. Thankfully my current employer values education, and so I have been taking classes and not only learning the technology, but un-learning what I have been doing wrong over the years. At home, though, I have been teaching myself Linux, system administration, networking and the overall method of migrating our system from Windows to Linux. I am involved in the Danbury Area Computer Society (DACS.org) I have the opportunity to take what I've learned the hard way and hopefully help others.. I have been enjoying Open Source for a while now, and I am hoping to get a better understanding of the entire model and application.
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Well, good luck to both of us! :)
Lately I have been doing more with Drupal and Wordpress where style is controlled by themes (which I edit with a text editor of some sort).
These frameworks then contain their own editor tools that can have as much, or as little, options as you include.
Like at work I give them some, but not all, formatting tools so as to keep everything within the theme's guidelines, while at home I give more.
Of course, for myself I give ALL but that's because I can go into the source and do whatever the heck I want ;)