Jack Bellis, a colleague at Elseivier, used a phrase I hadn’t heard before. User value versus Vendor value The basic example is a form that asks for a telephone number with three input boxes. The user has to enter information in three boxes, either tabbing to each or (hopefully) javascript automatically moves the focus to …
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Ruthless Automation is a name I swear I read somewhere, but have never been able to track down. It’s the way I want to approach my work – there’s never an excuse to do something by hand when you can make it easier with some up-front sweat equity.
Currently I’m a web developer in Dayton, Ohio, with a focus on writing HTML and CSS by hand, and enhancing things with jQuery and YUI where needed.
I love beautiful UIs (actually anything that’s done well) and hope to make myself into a designer over time, but want to keep writing code as well. I do that in Emacs and nothing else.
I’m very interested in mobile, especially the iPhone, and I’m learning Objective C on my own to try my hand at an app. The Nexus One is the second best phone I’ve ever seen, though, and it keeps me honest about web apps versus native.
Finally, I live with my wonderful wife and our daughter Grace. Being a father rewards me in ways I never could have imagined, and I try to appreciate that at least once a day.
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