About Me
Everything you need to know.
I am a multidisclinary developer living and loving life in Saint Louis, MO. My interests are varied, but many of them revolve around my love for computers, technology, and the web.
Recently, I've taken a strong liking to JavaScript—both frontend and server-side—and I've started to focus on developing components and tools to help developers build apps and web sites more efficiently.
30 Things About Me
Everything you didn't need to know.
- I would rather sit on a train for 10 hours than drive for 5. There's always something to do that you can't (or shouldn't) do while you're driving.
- My parents named me after the main characters in James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small.
- Vim completes me.
- I was on Twitter before @oprah.
- Public transit and the social spaces it creates in urban communities fascinates me.
- I have no intention of ever seeing Tristan and Isolde.
- I stopped following blogs via Google Reader/RSS. Too much noise. Not enough signal.
- The oxford comma? Love it.
- After taking two years of French in high school, the only thing I remember is how to say I'm thirsty: j'ai soif pour une biere.
- I'm not afraid to ask questions.
- Every time I see a fail whale, a small part of me dies inside.
- I love my iPhone, mostly because it has Words with Friends on it.
- According to Myers-Briggs, I'm an ENTJ. What are you?
- I don't mind working 60 hours a week as long as I've got great work to show for it.
- OOP is the best thing ever, but functional programming is even better.
- Caffeine is best consumed via americanos.
- The last time I was in Las Vegas, I was too young to gamble.
- I'm like a sponge—I'm constantly soaking up new ideas and learning new concepts.
- I believe that writing is easy. Writing well? Exceptionally difficult.
- I finally visited NYC in 2009. Can't wait to go back.
- CoffeeScript and Ruby taught me to hate semicolons.
- I speak fluent HTML, PHP, CSS, JS, and AS. Getting to know Node, Ruby, and a few others better.
- Salty or sweet? Salty.
- If Macs didn't exist, I'd be happily running Linux.
- I've always had an interest in maps and GIS. I went geocaching a few times and loved it, but I haven't done it in years.
- I will eat just about anything you put down in front of me—especially ethnic food.
- Heroku is incredible.
- Chrome > Safari > Firefox > Lynx > IE
- I'm still waiting for someone to buy me one of these.
- Happiness is directly proportional to the number of cats you live with.
