About, oh, eight or nine years ago, I decided I needed a personal website. On the theory that I didn't want to become a full-time personal website wrangler, I decided to put the site on Squarespace. Squarespace was a great service, and a very well thought out set of tools...

Last year, when Obtiva was purchased by Groupon, I wrote a ["what I learned"](/railsrx/2011/9/6/what-i-learned.html) post talking about things I thought I came to understand about software projects after working on a bunch of them. Now that I've moved on from Groupon, I started to think about what, if anything, I...

Oh yeah, things happening… ## Got A New Job, Got A New Office First off, I’ve started a new job as a Senior Developer and Agile Coach at [Table XI](http://www.tablexi.com), putting me back in the realm of small, Chicago-based consulting companies. Very exited, Table XI seems like a great place...

Here’s what I’ve got. 2 chapters introducing jQuery and Jasmine via a walkthrough of a simple piece of JavaScript functionality. 1 need to convert all my text from its current proprietary format to something more Markdown based. 1 genuinely silly conceit tying together the application that gets built in the...

So… The JavaScript book that I had contracted to do with Pragmatic will no longer be published by them. I need to be careful as I write about this. I don’t want to be defensive – I’m proud of the work I did, and I like the book I was...

Okay, the blog has been very quiet for the last month or so. Please be polite and pretend you noticed. I’ve alluded online to a new book one or two places and now I think it’s far enough along that I can mention it in public without being _too_ scared....

As [you may have heard](http://www.groupon.com/blog/cities/we-call-it-grouptiva-groupon-acquires-obtiva/), Obtiva got bought by Groupon. I’ve been traveling a bunch, so this coming week is my first full week in the Groupon office post-transition. And, well, someday maybe I’ll write retrospectively about Obtiva, but today isn’t that day. I’ll probably write about what I’m going...

I was a nerdy kid. I suppose that isn’t much of a surprise, given how I turned out. But in those pre-computer days, I was nerdy about math and baseball. I was the kind of kid that kept a daily log of my batting statistics in the recess kickball games....

I want to tell you about [LoneStar RubyConf](http://lonestarrubyconf.com/) and how my session went and all that, but first I want to tell you this seemingly unrelated story. Once upon a time, my Senior undergraduate project was an educational software tool I built to teach fractions to elementary school students. (To...

With respect to [this](http://kotke) request to link to early web stuff, I think the oldest HTML page I coded that's still online is [my Georgia Tech home page](http://gt), circa 1997-8. Note the creative use of ugly nested tables. I don't think that any of my earlier web stuff has survived......