Many moons ago, at the tender age of 14, Cal touched his first computer. (We\u2019re using the term \u201ccomputer\u201d loosely here, it was a TRS-80 Model 1) Since then his life has never been the same. He graduated from TRS-80s to Commodores and eventually to IBM PCs. For the past 15 years, Cal has worked with PHP and MySQL on Linux, OSX, and Windows. He has built a variety of projects ranging in size from simple web pages to multi-million dollar web applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When not banging his head on his monitor, attempting a blood sacrifice to get a particular piece of code working, he enjoys building and managing development teams using his widely imitated but never patented management style of \u201cmanagement by wandering around\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These days, when not working with PHP, Cal can be found working on a variety of projects like Day Camp 4 Developers<\/a>. He gives motivational talks to developers around the world. If you happen to meet him at a conference, don\u2019t be afraid to buy him a shot of Rum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cal is based in West Palm Beach, FL \u2013 US<\/a> where he is happily married to wife 1.35, the lovely and talented Kathy<\/a>. Together they have 2 wonderful kids who were both smart enough not to pursue a job in IT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many moons ago, at the tender age of 14, Cal touched his first computer. (We\u2019re using the term \u201ccomputer\u201d loosely here, it was a TRS-80 Model 1) Since then his life has never been the same. He graduated from TRS-80s to Commodores and eventually to IBM PCs. For the past 15 years, Cal has worked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_user_name":"CalEvans","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-11766","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa0Brk-33M","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/af70e3d71b3fb87f45c1025d3a21149958da1a416cabbebd4f450e18f920babc?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/af70e3d71b3fb87f45c1025d3a21149958da1a416cabbebd4f450e18f920babc?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/af70e3d71b3fb87f45c1025d3a21149958da1a416cabbebd4f450e18f920babc?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/af70e3d71b3fb87f45c1025d3a21149958da1a416cabbebd4f450e18f920babc?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/af70e3d71b3fb87f45c1025d3a21149958da1a416cabbebd4f450e18f920babc?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/af70e3d71b3fb87f45c1025d3a21149958da1a416cabbebd4f450e18f920babc?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/11766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/11766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11880,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/11766\/revisions\/11880"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/12050?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=11766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}