Cameron Barrett

Saving Lives

A memory from when I was a dumb-ass 15-year old paperboy.

I recall the summer of 2004 when I developed a site called TodaysPapers.com (I still own this domain) that was nothing but a massive RSS reader that sucked in thousands of RSS feeds, but the thing that made it unique as that each article in every feed immediately got a comments thread.

There are also the issues of massive technical debt and entrenched vendors who fight any effort of their replacement.

I successfully replaced an entrenched technology vendor in NJ’s largest public school district with an open source solution that immediately cut their web site operating budget in half, three years in a row…