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I live in Cincinnati, Ohio, and have been doing web development since 1995. I currently serve RecruitMilitary as Chief Experience Officer, in addition to another venture in my spare time.

I created and ran a first generation web development company, Sharkbytes, from 1995-2001. We participated in a roll up in 1999, and then the company died a slow death in the aftermath of the dotcom bubble burst.

I grew up in Youngstown, Ohio and attended University of Cincinnati for two years, leaving early due to eagerness to get my career started.

  • Sometimes you have to just know when to pull the plug —July 18, 2010
  • GapAttack Alpha Release —June 13, 2010
  • InsideSales.com Product Review —June 04, 2010
  • Steak + Capybara + Envjs = Refreshing take on Rails integration testing —April 27, 2010
  • Rails with Bundler slow to initialize —April 27, 2010
  • Manager Developer Syndrome —April 22, 2010
  • Building an app with Rails 3 and MongoDB (part 3) —April 11, 2010
  • Building an app with Rails 3 and MongoDB (part 2) —April 07, 2010
  • Building an app with Rails 3 and MongoDB (part 1) —April 06, 2010
  • Moving from monolithic legacy to modularized Ruby —March 30, 2010
  • Launching GapAttack —March 26, 2010
  • Rails web application development process —March 25, 2010
  • MySQL server has gone away with Sunspot and Cucumber —March 25, 2010
  • Easy canonical URLs in Apache —March 22, 2010
  • Unobtrusive code highlighting in Nesta —March 21, 2010
  • Use presenters and helpers for clean views —March 21, 2010
  • Chaos 2010 —March 16, 2010
  • My first MongoDB experience —March 15, 2010
  • Building a website with Nesta CMS —March 13, 2010
  • Stop treating salespeople like idiots —February 11, 2010
  • 5,000 tickets later: our Unfuddle story —January 17, 2010
  • Town Defense Game —January 16, 2010
  • pineypeakoutfitters.com —January 16, 2010
  • Cincinnati.rb needs a home —January 15, 2010
  • rounded corners in web design —November 08, 2009
  • Drew has gone Mac —October 14, 2009
  • Autospec running continuously on failing specs? —July 02, 2009
  • Speed up Windows —March 19, 2009
  • What is product management? —January 11, 2009
  • Products are never finished, only abandoned. —December 31, 2008
  • Transition from Devine Group to RecruitMilitary —September 03, 2008
  • 3 strikes, you're allowed the "big rewrite" —July 28, 2008
  • ASP.NET MVC —July 15, 2008
  • 99designs —July 11, 2008
  • bnet.com new user experience —July 11, 2008
  • "Beast" not corporate enough? —March 12, 2008
  • MacBook Pro —July 28, 2007
  • Ignore naysayers —August 14, 2006
  • Self-employment Myths —August 10, 2006
  • Software Development: Then and Now —July 13, 2006
  • Cost savings of agile over waterfall? —June 19, 2006
  • A step away from functional-spec-driven process —June 07, 2006
  • Death of a cowboy —June 02, 2006
  • Build a Management Team —February 16, 2006
  • WebPatterns —November 28, 2005
  • Ruby on Rails? Not for us, for now. —October 19, 2005
  • Ruby On Rails vs .NET —October 08, 2005
  • Corporate Wiki —September 30, 2005
  • Another blog is born —September 19, 2005

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