Design. Development. Consulting.
Simple things. Ideas sketched on the back of a napkin. Pragmatic. Useful. Fun and frugal too.
What do I do? I write, I consult, I imagine simple graphic designs, build custom websites, desktop applications, and server software.
I work full time for Discovery Software as the software development manager and software architect. I am part of a team who have built a number of products for educators, including Principalm, LearnFaces, and Rubrix.
I provide training to local technical colleges and user groups. One of my popular talks is an honest view of SEO and SEM, proposing an ethical approach to getting noticed online. I also teach software development and technical consulting.
This is a consulting and training gig. I'm teaching web marketing and consulting tactics, doing piecemeal visual and web design, and working directly with their clients on technical matters. I'm also helping them market their first book with a simplified web store, and re-launching it to Amazon using Lulu.com.
A technical weblog covering tools, techniques, and code. It's been online since the late '90s, and is currently in the top 100,000 weblogs according to Alexa.com.
A semi-regular weblog written in a forceful, imperative style. It's a stream of photos, quotes, and bits of wisdom, intended to motivate the hacker in all of us. Create, build, make, do something now!
A learning site for aggregating essays, books, papers, lectures, and tech talks.
Humour, in a dorky, Canadian style. It delivers a nerdy mash of graphs and charts, drawn using open standards and an open license.
This is my attempt to reveal the horrible overuse of hyphens in corporate writing. It acts as a thesaurus for commonly hyphenated words.
I'm also an avid photographer, and slightly less active artist. I focus on post-processing, textures, patterns, and character closeups.
This was a quick single page site I was using as a diversion from a longer work project. It's an ASCII art robot mascot for an online service. Why? Because I can!
An inspirational site aimed at an audience of 1 (my wife). A weekly photolog of interesting, happy shots.
