Concerning Work

At the moment and for the last 10+ years I have worked at CoffeeCup Software. It’s a good gig that I enjoy quite a bit. My time is usually spent working with the crew on strategy, planning/developing new products and services, and general day-to-day operations of the company. There is also a solid helping of PHP, HTML, CSS, and Javascript; dabbling with Photoshop, and hacking Apache. It’s all fun, and I get to learn something new everyday.

My earlier years were full of playing music and working with bands as a drummer and sound guy. At one point I ‘ran sound’ for some pretty good rock-and-roll bands by way of a company I founded called 12tone Audio. During that time I was also involved with some studio and live recording projects. That was a very fun era of my life and sometimes I miss it dearly.

When time permits, I organize the Atlanta Web Design Group and like to play with a camera.

A few guiding thoughts

These are a few of the things that guide my daily work and life. I’m not sure of the original source of some of these gems, and certainly don’t take credit for coining them myself (in no particular order):

• Leap! The net will appear
• Form follows function.
• If you’re not proud of it, don’t serve it.
• Know your strengths, and weaknesses
• Be aware of what is not obvious
• Do not do anything useless
• Find the simplest way it can possibly work.
• Never ask anyone to do anything you are not willing to do yourself.
• There is an answer for everything if you ask the right questions.
• Handle it once.
• “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” - Shakespeare

Anything else you’d like to know?