WOMBAT Powered

A wombat (Vombatus ursinus) is a somewhat cute marsupial from Australia.  They are similar to koalas except that they burrow and don’t have a propensity for eucalyptus.  They are fairly peaceful creatures, unless provoked.

However, WOMBAT is an acronym that stands for “Waste Of Money, Brains, And Talent”, and it’s responsible for this site.  This site is an enormous WOMBAT.

I Go Both Ways

That’s right, I use both Canon and Nikon cameras.  Some of the cameras I’ve used to take photos for this site are: Nikon Coolpix 990, Canon PowerShot S400, Canon PowerShot SD800 IS, Nikon FM2, Nikon F3, Nikon F5, & Nikon D70 (plus mobile phone cameras once in a while).

Server Stuff

While the content of this site is WOMBAT powered, this site is published using ExpressionEngine.  It’s extremely flexible and can be adapted to work how you want it to, instead of having you adapt to it.

joshmadison.com is hosted by Slicehost and utilizes PHP and MySQL on an Ubuntu server.

Desktop Stuff

The following software is instrumental to publishing joshmadison.com:

• CSSEdit - For CSS editing (no, seriously).
• Firefox with the Firebug add-on. - For design and testing.
• Navicat - For managing databases.
• Photoshop - For serious editing of images and photos.
• Photoshop Lightroom - For developing digital photos.
• Picturesque - For some effects on photos.
• Skitch - For quick and dirty image sizing.
• TextMate - For hand coding HTML/PHP.
• Transmit - For FTPing files all over the place.

They are all run on Mac OS X on a MacBook Pro.