To say WordPress has changed my life is an understatement. I was 22 years old when I had my son. I had become single half-way through the pregnancy and had finished no other education than high school. Not that I was too dumb or too uninterested to get educated, I just didn’t know what I…
What if I were to propose to you that it is possible to live life without limits? What if I were to say to you that you can do something extraordinary? What if you knew that you can move past your own shortcomings? Well, I’d be telling you a partial truth. Each one of us…
I started working as a Web Developer at the age of 17. Back then there was little knowledge in my country of Greece, dial up Internet with amazing high cost and every site was in Adobe Flash ( yes, some of us coded with it ). Greece has never been an easy place to start,…
History When I graduated from high school, 95% of my friends got scholarships abroad for higher education. After studying at one of the best schools of the country and not being able to go abroad for higher studies was a complete “failure”, at least that’s how it’s looked upon here. I wasn’t sure what I…
I developed reading habit very early. In fact I can’t recall my childhood without memories of Chacha Chaudhary comics and Champak. During high school (in 8th class), a new teacher, Kunal Sir, joined our school. He wanted to re-open school library which was closed since a long time. I volunteered for this task and as…
This is hopefully the first of a new kind of post on HeroPress. This post is about someone doing something heroic with WordPress, but it doesn’t quite fit the essay model. I’d love feedback on what you think. A couple weeks ago Matt Cromwell sent me a note on Slack that said “Did you meet…
I grew up on a small farm in lower mid-Michigan. I am the oldest of seven children and was homeschooled from second grade until I started college. Until my first day at Jackson Community College in the summer of 2006 at the age of eighteen, my world consisted of little else besides what existed within…
Back in 1998 life was easy. For web developers that is. HTML was simple, inline style, no JavaScript, layout in tables, a fixed width of 640 pixels and a simple design. Writing code in Notepad and no CMS. Those where the days. And look where we are now… We study, publish, read, listen, meet, curse at new…
I didn’t know Alex King. I barely knew who he was. This may sound strange to so many of you who saw his touch everywhere, but the vagaries of life simply kept us apart. Over the last year or so I heard his name here and there. A nice long talk with Norcross and Karim…
With a growing economy, in a third-world country, the absence of proper education, and lack of local resources to learn about technology, persistence and self-motivation are the key factors to get a successful career, or create a successful, and strong, startup business. Weak Education System, and Economy Unfortunately, we have a weak education system in…
