If someone were to ask me what the biggest defining characteristics of my life are right now, I think I would say: I’m a father I’m a husband I’m a programmer There are a million other attributes of my life, but for now, this is my top 3. It’s an interesting list, because I feel [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2009
An analogy
I’m a bit giddy these days, now that we’ve got some traction under us and are moving forward. I was thinking last night of an analogy – it’s like we’ve gone to our shed for some tools, packed them up and are driving out on some long, barren stretch of highway, stopping by some random [...]
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Using Balsamic Mockups
We were mocking pages up on paper, and then in CSS directly, when I realized I was spending an inordinate amount of time trying to get details to look good / different / better when other key pages failed to exist entirely. Drum roll – enter Balsamiq. I’m mocking up plausible wireframes in seconds now. [...]
What makes it go?
Hi, Steve here, your site developer, father of 2, and partner in this crazy adventure. I just wanted to briefly chime in with some details on the site, the develpment process, and how things are going thus far. We’ve got tons of ideas, tons of screenshots and skeletons, at least 2 levels of prototypes, and [...]
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13% of contributers to wikipedia are women
For us, Wikipedia is one of the shining examples of web 2.0 crowdsourcing (despite founder Jimmy Wales’ distaste for the term). Wikipedia is free, constantly changing and growing, and yet has been found to have fewer errors than the Encyclopedia Brittanica. How do they get users to create such good content? Recently, the Wikimedia Foundation [...]
Want to see what we’re working on?
We’re hanging a front door on the site today so that we can proclaim ourselves open for business, even though we’re a ways away from having a working, live site. Today, we extend an invitation to our friends and family and to whomever stumbles on our homepage to formally sign up to be “friends of [...]
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We have a name!
Today we’ve selected a name and URL for our site-to-be: Parents Guild! Why we like it: The term guild suggests that parenting is a craft. It implies we are learning our craft as we go. We work together to share knowledge and learn from those who may have attempted or mastered some aspect or another [...]
