Archive for November, 2009
An Open Letter to Myself, Web/UX Designers & Developers
Monday, November 30th, 2009
Dear Development Community,
I was honestly a hobbyist in web design in development from 1996 – 2003, where I got my first job building a website. Granted, that was a freelance project and I wouldn’t have any professional experience until some years later, but for our sake I’ll say my early beginnings in freelancing count as professional experience.
Tags: community, open letter, requests, san antonio, ux development, web development
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Around San Antonio 11/24
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
I’ve considered doing a new series just highlighting some of the things happening in while we undergo some growing pains in San Antonio, Texas. This is mostly a positive response to negative feedback on San Antonio, and similarly some positive feedback and commentary on potential problems and concepts to consider. I would like to regularly do this, so I’m starting today.
Tags: economic development, observations, san antonio, urban planning, urban strategies
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You want your standards? I got your standards right here!
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Recently, I’ve mentioned I, in much nicer terms, hate the direction the web industry is going. Partly from my own mishap with an agency on Twitter, partially from working at agencies, and downright to the realization that I just don’t care about the web. The decisions web dev professionals make are entirely based on the newest trend. A web dev may gripe and complain about Twitter, Facebook, and all other social media (with good reason), but I dare you to find the “genuine article”–someone who truly doesn’t care. The only people I don’t see following the trend are then lambasted for not having a personal blog, Twitter, iPhone, whatever, and those people are usually long-time corporate IT people who care more about getting work done and retiring than here-and-gone trends.
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