The Details
This site serves its purpose as a personal weblog but hopefully contains useful information for the casual web surfer, wine geek or dedicated code slave. The story starts in November of 2007 when I decided to take a few classes at Texas State Technical College in the Web Design department. Before long I was hacking away with XHTML and CSS and eventually found programming with PHP & Javascript interesting and fun. The first book I read on any code was HTML Dog by Patrick Griffiths. What a wonderfully easy book to read and use. Also, the book The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett was a big help. I became aware of the Web Standard’s community and do my best to practice what is preached by Unkle Jeffrey. I love learning new technologies and enjoy beautiful clean design.
The Who
I’m the best kind of daydreamer... or maybe the point is I like to ponder about our existence. Forget about Texans or Americans or French Canadians. I’m talking about us. Humans. Homo sapiens. Most of the time you can find me doing so in front of my Mac. I also like spending time with my family. I’m married to Kelli and we have a daughter named Sienna.
The What
I use an Intel based iMac to design and develop sites but keep my old Dell Dimension 2400 desktop PC for testing. If I can design sites to look decent on that old dinosaur of a monitor then I’ve done my job well. Looking at the web through a Mac is preferred.
The How
I use Photoshop CS3 for image editing and the amazingly lightweight and free Text Wrangler as my text editor for coding. Apache, MySQL and PHP are installed and configured on my Mac for web development. I’m curently messing around with django as well. Hooray for open source!