So I'm a novice web developer... I work in sales for a living but when my inbox is slow I may or may not be known to wander into my server and mess with stuff instead of doing my real job.

I've been getting more and more frustrated dealing with Wordpress for months now and then I discovered October and holy crap cakes it's wonderful! I was especially impressed after attaching my project to my site and watching all those plugins just download automatically... my heart skipped a beat with happiness. The developer first approach is genius and necessary in this world of CMS' that just make blog creation super easy but ignore everything else that a site should do.

I'm pretty basic in my web design knowledge, I have HTML & CSS down but I'm still figuring out PHP, MySQL & JQuery. October seems to be the perfect platform to create sites with my limited knowledge while expanding that knowledge at the same time!

Hooray!

Welcome to the club, you're going to like it here!

Me too! I've worked with Zend, CodeIgniter, and Laravel extensively. I'm accustomed to programming everything myself, but I'm switching over to October for less intensive websites. (For large web applications, I'm still going to be coding in Laravel directly.)

I'm working on my first plug-in. At first it was a little rocky, but now that I'm getting the swing of it, I'm pretty excited. If I get a chance, I'll write my own tutorial. The existing tutorials aren't bad, but they do use a lot of October terminology that can be intimidating. The easiest way, in my opinion, to learn how plugins work is by looking at the rainlab blog plugin. It's really a lot easier than it first seems.