Welcome to my personal web site!

I'm an independent software developer and small business guy, with particular expertise in the design and implementation of interactive and collaborative applications.

As a generalist, the wide range of roles inherent in small business is a great fit, and I'm a keen follower (and occassional collaborator) of others who work in similar situations. Today's technologies make this an increasingly achievable and very satisfying option for more and more people.

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you're interested in any work I've done, or if there's some way I may be able to help you out.
 

Current Work

I currently run CourseForum Technologies, a small social software company I started that develops best-in-class wiki collaboration products such as CourseForum and ProjectForum.

A recent side venture is Unifiq, a Mac-oriented brand offering Aspire, a visual tool to help people "think different" about their long term plans.

I've long been involved with the Tcl/Tk software community, most recently developing TkDocs, a modern Tk tutorial for Tcl, Ruby, Perl and Python developers.
 

Background

I've been developing software since the mid-80's, and started doing R&D of collaborative systems (HCI/CSCW) in 1991 at U Calgary. My big claim to fame there was a popular groupware prototyping environment called GroupKit.

In 1997, I started TeamWave Software (sold in 2000), and led the development of a series of innovative collaboration products.

Over the years, I've also been involved in numerous other projects, both commercial and open source, in a wide range of different areas.

For recent updates and musings please visit my weblog.