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Recent Articles
Magic Carpet – JS1k Entry
< 1Kb And cool JavaScript Competition One of my friends Fernie from work showed me the JS1K Competition on Monday morning. I had heard about JS1K about a year...
The Price of Convenience
Con-venience Making bad things easy Electronic Commerce One of the pitfalls of modern life is the convenience of the financial transaction. Computers make so many things in life literally as...
Development In Mind
Thought Computers still suck The Entropy of Information While computers are incredibly powerful tools, there is one thing they have not come close to achieving. Thought. A computer has...
Favicon Meet Browser Icon
Clutter Too many open browsers Concurrent Being a Web Developer can often mean running many concurrent browsers. It is important to quickly switch between browsers, to see the CSS...
Resume
Career Highlights
London to Boston
I have been developing websites professionally for over nine years. I started out my career working at some of London's top web-design agencies as a freelance web developer.I became a permanent resident in 2008, where I began to experiment with WebGL and Web Audio, while contracting for Mozilla.
Processing.js Technical Lead
I helped John Resig (creator of jQuery), with Processing.js and built the Processing.js web site. Mozilla asked me to become Technical Lead for The Processing For The Open Web project, working closely with students at Seneca, Centre for Development of Open Source Technology, University of York, Canada.
Boston JavaScript Meetup Group
For the last couple of years I have organized the Boston JavaSript Meetup group.
W3C Audio Working Group Chair
I chaired the W3C Audio Working Group for two years (currently invited expert). I organised meetings, created audio demos, updated specs traveled around speaking about the Web Audio at various conferences and Meet-up groups.
Co-Founded Bocoup
In 2009 I co-founded Bocoup in Fort Point. I helped grow our team from 2-12 awesome JavaScript developers. We started a very successful coworking facility next door from which many new companies have blossomed, one of which went on to win the MassChallenge in 2010.
CTO at SignedOn
I have spent the last year working as CTO at SignedOn in downtown Boston, where we created a lot of the foundation work for a PaaS/BaaS architecture in Node.js and developed WordPress and jQuery UI widgets for various clients.
Speaking
Conferences & Workshops
- Web Technology for Small Businesses
2013-03-16 - Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Boston - Standardization of Web Audio APIs
2011-10-15 - Wakanday, Boston MA - Blender to WebGL
2011-08-17 – HTML5 Game Development Meetup, Boston - WebGL Demo Workshop
2011-06-17 – [AT]Party Demoscene Event, Harvard - Web Audio APIs
2011-01-20 - HTML5 Game Development Meetup, Boston - Processing.js Interactive Workshop
2010-11-08 - EDUI Conference, Virginia - Intro to Processing.js
2010-11-08 - EDUI Conference, Virginia - JS Game Audio
2010-10-26 – Level Up Game Jam, CDOT, University of York, Canada - Firefox4 Audio Data API
2010-10-16 - Workshop - Music Hack Day, Boston - SceneBox Demo-tools with Web-Technology
2010-09-17 - Bocoup Loft, Boston
- Processing.js New Features & Tutorial
2010-08-19 – Harvard College, Boston - The Future of Web Audio
2010-07-08 - Mozilla Summit 2010, Whistler, Canada - The Future of Web Audio
2010-05-12 - Bocoup Loft, Boston - Audio Data API Talk
2010-04-28 - WWW2010, North Carolina - WebGL Demo Overload
2010-04-17 - JSConf, DC - JavaScript Motion Graphics - Keynote
2010-04-02 - Motion Graphics Festival Boston - Processing.js - UI Mechanics
2010-03-17 - Bocoup Loft, Boston - Processing.js Workshop x2
2009-11-21 - Music Hack Day, Boston - Creating an Animated Twitter Widget
2009-10-30 - FSOSS University of York, Canada - A Crash Course in HTML5
2009-09-11 - Microsoft NERD, Boston - Processing.js - The Death of Flash
2009-04-30 - BarCamp4 MIT, Boston