Cal Evans

Cal Evans

West Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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I build the teams that build what's next.

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Articles by Cal

  • My Journey into Mautic

    Those that know me know that I have an obsession with marketing. I mean I’m no good at it, but the topic fascinates me.

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  • How I got Let's Encrypt setup and operating on CentOS

    The web has been given a wonderful gift by the name of Let's Encrypt. A free way to get an SSL certificate for your…

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  • It's all about Culture

    The problem of hiring developers is actually deeper than just finding developers and collecting resumes. You are…

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Experience

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Board Member

    PHPWomen

    - Present 18 years 5 months

    Science and Technology

  • Organizer Emeritus

    Nashville PHP User Group

    - Present 16 years 5 months

    Education

Publications

  • Life Badges

    E.I.C.C., Inc.

    Have you ever looked at a project README.md and the first two to three lines are filled up with little graphics telling you the various stats of the project? The “badges” have become popular because they are a quick way for developers to communicate information about the project.

    I want badges for my life. When people look at my life's README.md, what badges do I want them to see? What badges do they really see? What can I do to control this?

    Join me as we jog through the list of…

    Have you ever looked at a project README.md and the first two to three lines are filled up with little graphics telling you the various stats of the project? The “badges” have become popular because they are a quick way for developers to communicate information about the project.

    I want badges for my life. When people look at my life's README.md, what badges do I want them to see? What badges do they really see? What can I do to control this?

    Join me as we jog through the list of Life Badges I want people to see on my life's repo. Along the way, we'll pause briefly to examine what each badge means, and what color is appropriate. As we examine README.md, you may be surprised at what you learn about me…and about your own life badges.

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  • Uncle Cal's Career Advice to Developers

    E.I.C.C., Inc.

    Gather 'round kiddies. Pull you up a spot on the porch and listen as Uncle Cal tells you a tale. Let Uncle Cal share with you five points you can use to have a happier, healthier, and more productive career. Mind your toes, don't want to get them caught in his rocking chair.

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  • Wisdom of the ElePHPant

    E.I.C.C., Inc.

    A collection of wisdom from members of the PHP community.

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  • Going Pro

    2014

    Thoughts on becoming a professional programmer

    If getting paid to program, doesn't make you a professional developer, what does?

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  • Signaling PHP

    Learn One Thing Books

  • No BS Engineering

    E.I.C.C., Inc.

    Join hosts Mario Peshev and Cal Evans and they share career advice for software developers.

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  • Voices of the ElePHPant

    E.I.C.C., Inc.

    Podcast interviews with members of the PHP developer community.

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Projects

  • Kony Cloud Portal

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    Alongside the launch of the new Kony PaaS product line, the company needed a replacement for the aging, hacked together Customer Portal. After analyzing the content in the current Customer Portal, I proposed a new information architecture that would push the site forward incrementally. However, the Execs wanted a more dramatic break from the previous version, and we went back to the drawing board. With some significant changes, we provided an all new Customer Portal with less of an emphasis on…

    Alongside the launch of the new Kony PaaS product line, the company needed a replacement for the aging, hacked together Customer Portal. After analyzing the content in the current Customer Portal, I proposed a new information architecture that would push the site forward incrementally. However, the Execs wanted a more dramatic break from the previous version, and we went back to the drawing board. With some significant changes, we provided an all new Customer Portal with less of an emphasis on the developer users.

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  • Kony Community Portal

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    The Kony Customer Portal had a hacked-on installation of vBulletin doing a poor job of providing community support. It was filled with old posts and ambiguous taxonomy that made it difficult to find relevant questions and answers about common subjects. The moderators had a hard time keeping up with open questions and pointing people towards accurate answers due to thread length. In short, all the things that happen to a long-lived support forum were happening to Kony.

    I imagined a…

    The Kony Customer Portal had a hacked-on installation of vBulletin doing a poor job of providing community support. It was filled with old posts and ambiguous taxonomy that made it difficult to find relevant questions and answers about common subjects. The moderators had a hard time keeping up with open questions and pointing people towards accurate answers due to thread length. In short, all the things that happen to a long-lived support forum were happening to Kony.

    I imagined a replacement that operated more like Stack Overflow and Get Satisfaction or User Voice: a community where the participants could actually participate, where the currency was Votes and Answers, where the moderators were empowered to identify an Answer as the Right Answer and everyone saw that endorsement. We set about building the system in Drupal, to remain consistent with the other websites, and completed the functionality relatively quickly. When the design shift from Kony 2.0 to 3.0 came around, there was little work needed to apply the redesign.

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Honors & Awards

  • PADI Certified Instructor

    PADI, Inc

    I am now a PADI Certified Instructor

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