Daniel Chapman started his career as an Oracle database consultant and trainer, working for various Australian Universities and Telecommunication Companies, and also for Oracle Australia, developing a keen sense of the value of development standards and analysis processes. After ten years in this arena he wanted a change and moved into web development in 2004, quickly picking up PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, while experimenting with various CMSes.
Finally deciding on Joomla! as his CMS of choice, Daniel initially began working as a consultant developing sites and producing a few small extensions, before starting one of the first Open Source Extension Clubs — Ninjoomla.com, which eventually changed it's name to NinjaForge.com, and has become quite well known in the Joomla! sphere.