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Well it's about time we get something in the Technology section, since after all we do have to use a little bit of it for our presence in the intarweb.

I just so happen to be another Scott that works for the company and I'm a part of what you would call the tech staff, our motley band of heroes is composed of five people who handle all the servers, networking and actually breath the code.  We make extensive use of open source products and run what is commonly known as a LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL perl) setup to handle a majority of the websites. Currently there is a lot of thought going into how to give our website designers and architects more toys to play with as we consolidate code and make better use of back end services (such as memcached) that we have put into place. I wouldn't be surprised to see different functionality and options pop up within the website from time to time over the next few months. 

Down in the trenches of our day to day work some of us run Fedora and other of us have "made the switch" to Ubuntu on our desktops, so you can bet we're all about keeping linux compatibility in mind so we can see our daily Lio .  I would note that none of us are open source zealots (which may change when/if the MMORPG market becomes more nix compatible) but I can also safely say that we're all more comfortable at the command line then in a gui. In fact I think our newest edition to the group has memorized the entire set of vim documentation and has shown us old dogs some new tricks.

So there's a quick peek and an introduction into the group, ideally myself or one of the others will try to drop in from time to time and shed some more light on our latte powered group and what we have in store.

-- on a side note John and I will be at OSCON this next week partaking massive amounts of caffeine and looking for new ideas to bring to back to our paneled walls

ScottK

Comments

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I'm afraid that "pop up" is the key phrase in the above mention of new technology and toys for the web designers....

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Do your web designers have to watch a "Flash" ad as their development environment loads?