Thinking in TYPO3

Hello TYPO3 community! I am the majority partner of Cast Iron Coding LLC, a web development agency located in beautiful (but rainy) Portland, Oregon, USA. I've been working with TYPO3 for nearly 4 years now and am the author of the now eclipsed chc_forum extension. At Cast Iron Coding, we've recently started building up our "Admin's Corner" section, which contains short articles that aim to help experienced and inexperienced TYPO3 developers and content editors. My goal is to cross-post some of those articles here, as well as my general thoughts and reflections on working with TYPO3. In addition to TYPO3, I'm also interested in English Literature (working on finishing up a Ph.D. in English; writing my dissertation on 17th century poetry) and instructional technology.