Personal

A Good Mixtape Website, Like Breaking Up, is Hard to Do

05.07.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

John Cusack, as Rob Gordon in “High Fidelity,” came up with some rules for putting together a proper mixtape. Just as well, since you are using someone else’s work to express your own feelings. Such is the case with coming up with a web application that facilitates the creation and distribution of your own mixtape [...]

Professional

Qualities of Wonderful Markup

05.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Everyone has their own philosophy of how markup should be written, and I am no exception. Over time, I have strived to make sure that what I write can be described as follows:

Browser Agnostic
Semantically Correct
Forward Thinking
Well Documented
Self Contained

Clearly, these are ideal qualities that always seem to be challenged on every project, mostly around the existence [...]

Personal

Killing the Earth, One Flight at a Time

04.29.08 | Permalink | Comment?

A colleague of mine recently posted about how Dopplr now keeps track of your carbon profile, based on the trips you have scheduled in the past and in the future. In the spirit of sharing, I’m already at 7,596 8,418kg — and counting — for the year. In my defense, the flights were [...]

Professional

Submit Your Panel Ideas for SXSW Interactive 2009

04.29.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Those who wish to have a chance at presenting at next year’s SXSW Interactive conference should be prepared to submit panel ideas starting on June 2. While this process will last through July 11, I encourage those who are interested to really think about what they want to present. Think of it as [...]

Personal, Professional

Between Posts

04.25.08 | Permalink | Comment?

The last blog entry I posted had to do with some networking event in Boston that I didn’t even bother to attend. That was when I lived in Boston, over a year ago. A lot has happened since then. One relationship, one move, and three clients later, I find myself working on a project in [...]