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What’s new in Phoenix Tech

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Today a new site launched that will cover the goings-on in Phoenix Startups and Technolgoy.  Daily Hoopla will be hunting down cool companies in Phoenix and get them to spill the beans on what they are up to.  If you know a good company in Phoenix that deserves some attention, please send in your suggestions.

What Does Daddy Do?

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

My 5 year old (also named Jade) had a homework assignment for Kindergarten where he had to explain “What do your parents do at work?”
This is what he came up with all on his own:

For those of you who can’t decipher Kindergarten handwriting that says
Dad

Fixes Computers
Writes Programs
Makes Websites

How funny is that?

Arizona Republic Article from TiE Event

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Today I was quoted in the Arizona Republic on the back page of the Business section based on the panel I spoke on at TiE.
Here is the article:

Speaking at AZ TiE

Monday, August 11th, 2008

I was recently asked to join a panel at the Arizona Chapter of TiE (a network of entrepreneurs “founded to inspire, foster and support entrepreneurship”).  I will be speaking on Wednesday August 13th at the panel titled New Product Development - At the Heart of Every New Venture.

Quoted in Arizona Republic

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

I was interviewed a few weeks ago about “Fun in the Workplace.” It was really nice to talk to the reporter, Patricia Bathurst, about my opinions on creating a fun, yet productive workplace. I only got a small quote in this article but Patricia has expressed interest in doing a full piece on [...]

bizAZ’s 35 Entrepreneurs Under 35

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

I was lucky enough to be selected as one of bizAZ’s 35 Entrepreneurs Under 35! Check out the May/June edition of bizAZ. bizaz.com doesn’t have any good online information so I will scan and post my article soon.
Update: I added a scanned copy of the article.

links for 2008-01-29

Monday, January 28th, 2008

SmartAgile.com: The Case for User Interface (UI) Designers on Agile Projects

Getting Real: Interface First (by 37signals)

Emily Chang – Blog: The Agile Web Design Manifesto, An Introduction

links for 2008-01-23

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

40 Reasons Why Software Projects Die

links for 2007-12-05

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

iPhone on Rails – Creating an iPhone optimised version of your Rails site using iUI and Rails 2
(tags: iphone rails)

Dive Into Accessibility
(tags: design html)

WebAIM: Articles
(tags: design javascript)

links for 2007-11-27

Monday, November 26th, 2007

The Blogger’s Guide to SEO – by Aaron & Giovanna Wall : SEO Book.com
(tags: seo blogging marketing)

Scal v0.2 Documentation | Scal
(tags: javascript prototype scriptaculous calendar script.aculo.us)

Posh CSS
(tags: css)

UI-patterns.com
(tags: design ui)

XPDAY7: Have you compromised your agility?
(tags: agile)