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Getting It Real and Really Getting It

Monday, April 21st, 2008

I recently jumped ship on a project that seemed destined to hit the rocky shores of missed deadlines and then sink in the swirling eddies of communication breakdown. I wasn’t on board for long - about a week and a half really - but during that time I spent far too many days trying to […]

Turning New Pages

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

As a software artist who is focused on ‘bridging the gap between end users and engineers’ I have always found it necessary and worthwhile to explore the ‘materials’ that I work with. In doing so I can better control the emotional impact of an application on the user: the more I know about how the […]

The (In) Convenience Factor

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

The motto and the objective of The User Advocate Group is to:
“Bridge the Gap Between End Users and Engineers”
Why is there such a gap? Well, there are many reasons such as: “language” differences (”geek-speak” vs. “human-speak”); lack of effective communication channels; economics; priorities (technology-centric vs. user-centric); etc.
But here’s one that came to mind recently as […]

Road Blocks and Code Blocks

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

A couple of weeks ago I alluded to my journey of discovery into server side web programming as being like an expedition over perilous, rocky terrain. Certainly the learning curve has been steep in places but I really enjoy the view from the top – when the answers to previously daunting questions can be finally […]

Coast Lines and Code Lines

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Suddenly summer is over. Whoops! I forgot to go to the beach!
Time flies when you’re growing a new business and this summer I chose to spend a lot of my time building a data driven web site from the ground up. I’ve done lots of desktop software development but I’ve never really gotten into […]

An Unframed Incidental Art Tour

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

For a few weeks now my left brain has been absorbed in the details of implementing a client’s web site. Being wedded to a tight deadline and having already done all the loose, creative design stuff, I’m now focused almost exclusively on solving the challenges of writing computer code in what is still a new […]

Week of the Geek

Friday, July 13th, 2007

I’ve temporarily suspended my humanity.
In case anyone has noticed that I’ve been rather uncommunicative lately (i.e. I haven’t blogged for almost two weeks) it’s because I’ve gone away. To Geekland.
My Girlfriend has certainly noticed. She’s basically given up on me. Once in a while, through the haze of variables and conditional statements that fill my […]

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