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Jeff is a bonafide computer geek with 10 years of experience. He currently works full-time for a small architectural firm in downtown Dallas and works on websites and MODx in his freetime. A native Texan, Jeff grew up in Houston and moved to Dallas in 1999. Recently married, Jeff enjoys spending time with his wife (when she isn't busy with law school, that is!). His hobbies include comic book collecting, polishing his New Beetle with a diaper, and (of course!) working with the wonderful development team to improve MODx!

  Jeff Whitfield on 31-Jan-06MODx for the masses 

In a recent article on the ZDNet Australia site, Seth Gottlieb, content management practice lead for Optaros, had a portion of a whitepaper entitled Content Management Problems and Open Source Solutions that he wrote reprinted. In it Seth describes some basic things to consider when choosing an open-source content management system. A lot of what he says is just plain common sense. But some of the things he mentions are things that could easily be overlooked...even for a project like MODx.

  Jeff Whitfield on 26-Jan-06Integrating Mint with MODx 

mint badgeWith AJAX driven applications all the rage, it’s no wonder that Mint is getting a lot of attention lately. Not only does it look good but, let’s face it, it works pretty darn good too! It’s easy to use and even easier to add-on to MODx. Read on to learn how...

  Jeff Whitfield on 22-Jan-06MODx and Beyond 

A few years ago, back when I was just first starting out with the PHP language, I had a goal to find a good, solid application that would meet some of my needs for a personal site I wanted to deploy. You see, as an ex-ASP programmer I had alot of knowledge in some of the open-source ASP-based portal systems out there. I knew there had to be something similar for PHP...but which one? I was amazed at the number of options out there! So I went out hunting for the right solution to meet my needs...