I'm doing freelance JavaScript development and Unix sysadmin work. New clients welcome -- musicians, artists, and web designers in particular. Please email me if you're interested.
My big project this winter is an "artistic CMS" -- an engine for small websites that need to look good. Demo site and open-source release to be announced when ready.
Updated my Consulting and Contact pages. Please accept my apologies for the rest of this site; I've been too busy with my CMS... when it's a little further along, I'll use the new layout/editing features here, and it'll be beautiful :-)
New post: Thoughts on MongoDB & co. ('NoSQL' databases)
Posted a New Years update. Housecleaning, plans, predictions... yada yada.
I'm making headway on my little "artistic CMS"... this week I'll update this site to the latest version, and I'll put up a live demo on a subdomain.
Today's subject is a SNAFU in one of my consulting projects, and what can be learned from it. As the acronym suggests, this is Situation Normal... perfectly typical of projects involving software. I'll get into a few technical details, but I'm writing this is for owners/managers too.
I've really done it. Bit the bullet, drank the kool-aid, ate the dogfood. I wrote two blog posts, one right before I got the phone and another after the honeymoon. Now to make my websites mobile-friendly...
I'm now time-sharing Lisa Hoag's office space in the totally awesome Eastworks building in Easthampton. Nice change of pace from my home office way up in Greenfield. I'm there mainly on Wednesdays and Fridays.
I'm also resurrecting the Javascript meetup that Stan Silver began earlier this year. Same place, coincidentally.
My "musician's website backend" project is gathering momentum. Lisa and the rest of the Oxbow Collaborative (a cross-disciplinary team of freelancers) are getting involved. We're all excited about bridging the gap between programming and design, to do great things with "web technology"... to make it smooth, simple, playful, artistic, useful.