Wired.com, the online companion to Wired Magazine, is one of CondéNet’s lifestyle web sites bringing the editorial excellence of CondéNast magazines to digital media. Wired Magazine, founded in 1993 and published in San Francisco, reports on the impact of technologies on culture, the economy and politics.
Wired.com had a mission-critical deadline for migrating their Wired How-To Wiki to MediaWiki, the same open-source system used by the Wikipedia. To meet Wired’s deadline, they needed to outsource the front-end programming portion of the project because their internal resources were overloaded. The work required a pixel-perfect implementation of Wired’s designs into a set of MediaWiki templates or “skin.” In addition, advertising, analytics, and several MediaWiki extensions needed to be integrated into the standard MediaWiki software.
Fascinated by photography since end of 1992, I started to work in the commercial photography field in 1997. I opened a photo studio in Guangzhou and was appointed by the Landmark Hotel (Shenzhen) as the photographer. In 2000, I immigrated into Canada. Settled down in Toronto, I pursued further education in photography and design while continuing to work as a free- lance photographer.