About

Developed in Canada

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A web developer/designer, part-time professor, husband and a loving dog owner who was born and raised in Pakenham, Ontario. Oh, and since I’m in the business of mentioning small Ontario towns, I should also mention I went to high school in Arnprior. What else do you need to know?

I have both a university and college education, in that order. Studying Fine Arts and Cultural Studies with concentration on Digital Media at York University, in Toronto, followed by Interactive Multimedia at Algonquin College, in Ottawa. University taught me to think, learn and question everything and college jump-started my technical skills—a great balance.

With passions for the web, technology, development, design and typography and an endless drive to learn new things, I constantly challenge myself to the be the best possible developer—and person—I can be.

Num-chuck Skills, Bow Hunting Skills, etc.

This is probably the place where you would expect me to list the following: HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, XML, XSLT, MySql, Lego, etc. And you’d be right!

Though listing a few acronyms doesn’t really cut it. View source on this page, check out my client work, read some blog posts or check out some of my personal projects. Because that’s exactly what I’d do on your web site.

Professional Part-Time Professor

The web is important to me and it’s equally important for me to help the new generation of developers learn to make web sites the proper way. So, I started teaching at Algonquin and Heritage colleges, teaching beginner and advanced HTML and CSS, dynamic database driven sites and even Flash and Actionscript.

I teach part-time because I feel it is important to be continually emersed in what I am teaching, especially in the wonderful world of the web. This way I can stay on top of everything that’s going on and hopefully use that knowledge in the curriculum.

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About the Site

This site is my personal playground—complete with rocket ships—and is a personal on-going project in itself. It’s also home to my first blog (but don’t tell anyone), where I hope to positively contribute to the Canadian web and education communities. The design is the all improved two-point-oh version and has been updated to include my brand-spankin’-new personal branding. You can read more about the site and design in the blog post titled Evolution of a Personal Web Site.

Under the Hood

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The web site is powered by the open-source PHP framework, Hinge. A simple, flexible content management framework. The site is a tasty, em-based semi-liquid layout topped with a nice sprinkling of microformats; a pinch of CSS3; a dust of Javascript, powered by jQuery; and of course baked in HTML5 (at least in doctype spirit).

If your browser supports @font-face, the type is primarily set in the beautiful Museo and Museo Sans by Jos Buivenga.

The site is hosted by MediaTemple. I would have loved to support a Canadian host, but the hosting landscape (and don’t forget the telecommunications landscape) in Canada is poor.