
APH Networks is run by a team of people responsible in various areas. Whether it's writing the reviews or reports, updating the news section, or administrating the technical side of the site, the APH Networks team works hard to ensure that everything goes smoothly. The current weekly schedule of APH Networks:
Monday-Friday (Excluding American public holidays) - Technology news is published every morning before 10:00AM MST.
Tuesday - The standard estimated time for new article previews.
Friday - New regular articles (Reviews, reports, etc) are made official and public.
Saturday - New weekly poll is published.
APH Networks consists of four different departments:
Administration department takes care of the financial issues and technical aspects of the website. Whether it's making sure all server bills are paid, domain name is renewed when required, advertising, PR issues, and making sure all the work is getting done in different departments, we do all the dirty work. The administration department also takes care of the web frontend and backend to make sure everything is up and running smoothly too.
Technology News Division scouts the web for news and publishes them on the front page. Technology news is scouted for on a collection of news sites every weekday to ensure interesting news will be presented to the reader. Additionally, the news team also links to our affiliate's newly published items that are delivered to us via email.
Publications Division is the part where APH Networks is most known for to the reader. From working with manufacturers to arrange product for reviews, composing a review schedule, to actually writing the review -- which includes photos, testing, and the actual writing part -- as well as handing it to other members in the Publications Division for editing and quality control. We also research for reports, and use our creativity for other things such as writing April Fools articles. Basically, any article developed in-house is done by the Publications Division.
Community Forums Division the the team taking care of the forums. Generally, as APH Networks incorporates little censorship on every contributing member's opinions (Unless it's explicitly offensive content), the moderating team does to make sure everything is smooth and organized -- like moving posts to the right place, helping members, deleting and banning spammers, and of course, editing offensive posts, if any.
The official team consists of five members:
Jonathan Kwan (chconline) is the Editor in Chief, Executive Director, and Forum Administrator at APH Networks. Otherwise known as "the chc", he is a computer enthusiast who "does not like playing games", a claimed to be not-so-hardcore audiophile, and an automotive fan, he writes many of the published articles on APH Networks specializing in Hardware. Besides doing most of the work in the Administration department, his main job at APH Networks is to review products. In that context, he also needs to arrange review products for all editors, making sure everything is to the schedule, and ensuring all articles are up to the APH standard. Jonathan also occasionally updates main page news, as well as updating affiliates news. Not to mention all the dirty work in the forums. Generally speaking, he does at least a little of everything. Jonathan is currently studying Engineering at home in the Schulich School of Engineering (University of Calgary).
Kenneth Kwok (shc-boomer) lives in Vancouver, BC. Being with APH Networks since the very beginning, he is currently the Technology News Director, this guy wakes up every morning, and one of the first things he does is to check sources for interesting news articles, and posts them on APH Networks. If he's not updating news on that day, he will need to check if APH Networks is updated to schedule. Additionally, Kenneth is also a General Associate Writer for the APH Publications Division. During his free time, he is a self-proclaimed gamer, although not really that hardcore (In skills anyways).
Herbert Lui (Herbicious) loves to blog about technology. Like Kenneth, he's been with APH Networks since the beginning. Herbert is currently the Article Quality Control Editor and an Associate Writer specializing in Software in the Publications Division, as well as a moderator in the forums. All published articles are always edited by Herbert to ensure it's free of grammatical mistakes, and in general, just making sure that they simply make sense. He also writes reviews and software articles for the Reports section. Herbert resides in Toronto, Ontario, and no one really knows what he does in his free time -- other than maybe gossiping about his friends or playing a Nintendo DS that he "borrowed" from someone. Oh yeah, and he also helped out with the '08 APH Networks Relaunch in republishing all the articles manually due to technical difficulties with the database.
Zachary Hopkins (HopkinsProgramming) loves long walks on the beach, is currently single, and lives in an apartment by himself in Virginia. His favorite quote is "I hate papers and projects and retarted system administrators and evil squirrels and OMG >.<" Notice how he spelled "retarded" wrong. He also once claimed that "[his] Business Law book has transformed into a 2-ton brick and it is crushing [him]". Anyways, on the serious side, as the Lead Global Moderator on the APH Networks Forums, he monitors APH quite a bit and takes out forum spam like no tomorrow. And he makes sure all the threads are in the right place, then there's those days of helping forum members. Just to make sure that the forums are in good order and everything is going smoothly. A networking man himself, he also helps out with backend technical issues with the Administration department sometimes. Like Herbert, he did his part as well in the '08 APH Networks Relaunch too.
Gordon Tam (gummyz) lives in Ottawa, Ontario. He's probably the nicest forum moderator you'd ever meet, and that's why everyone likes him so much. A technology enthusiast and a kid at heart, you got to love this guy. And that's why he's our forum moderator! Since he doesn't use Facebook, we'll need some time to work on this section lol.
Additional credits: You might have noticed how APH Networks is missing a ton of news archive and various articles since 2005. This is due to the APH Networks' relaunch on July 30, 2008. Running previously on an outdated platform, the code contains a variety of unaddressed security problems and inefficient/obsolete technology. When our site was relaunched, it was moved to a completely new platform with significantly improved code on the backend; complete with a new design on the frontend. Unfortunately, the old database was not compatible with the new one and an automatic conversion cannot be done. Therefore, all data had to be manually republished onto the site. This required some hardcore copying-and-pasting (And yeah, you'd be surprised how long that took, which is roughly 11 hours to fully complete the upgrade procedure). In this context, two APH Networks staff Herbert Lui (Herbicious) and Zachary Hopkins (HopkinsProgramming), as well as two volunteers Anthony Kwan (SHiFT) and Michael Choi (r3volution) helped out with the republishing of majority of APH's contents.