I’ve been doing web development in some capacity for my entire ~15 year software development career, but only over the past ~18 months or so has the focus returned almost solely to web user experience (UX) technologies like HTML, CSS and especially JavaScript. I’ve had the privilege to work on some projects that have really pushed the bounds of my skillset recently, and I’ve really enjoyed that opportunity to learn and grow. I’ve been particularly excited about the growth of the JavaScript language and the tools that have been emerging to make working with JavaScript a more and more exciting space to work.
This past August I had the privilege to attend the DevLink conference in Chattanooga. While there I was blessed to be able to connect with several of the fantastic people that work for appendTo. Those connections proved valuable not long ago when I saw an update on their twitter feed announcing that they had an opening for a JavaScript developer. Having gotten to know the quality of the people there already, I was skeptical if I was even qualified…but the potential for an opportunity to be able to work on that team overpowered my hesitation. I decided to toss my resume at the wall and see if it would stick.
Our good Lord showed me favor, and I was offered a position as a senior developer on their professional services team. I’m excited to get started on Monday. What a fantastic opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best professionals in our industry. With time and a little luck, I hope to maybe even be able to contribute a little myself. We’re a training and consulting company so…hire us…maybe I can get a chance to work with you too! : )
I’ve been doing some work with
On December 27th, 2007, God hand-delivered our first little boy, Phoenix, into our lives. That was one of the most nerve-racking days of my life. Being that he was born so close to Christmas, we decided a long time ago that, when the time came and it was most appropriate, that for a time during his young life, we would celebrate his birthday on the half-year. Not very many of his friends are available to hang out for a birthday party two days after Christmas, and even if they were, its usually either too cold or too wet to do a whole lot of anything fun.
This is (hopefully) the first of a series of posts that I’ve wanted to write for a long time now. If I recall correctly, I think I actually already wrote this very post a while back on a previous version of my site, and never got beyond this first post, so, I’m hoping I can stick with it this time and actually follow through and finish it. This is a subject I believe in very strongly and am very passionate about, so I’m looking forward to the opportunity to think through it in more depth as I write it all down.
For some reason, whenever I think of or discuss the idea of serialization, my brain associates it with the concept of transformation…which always makes me think of Transformers. Is that weird?