About Me

My name is Andrew Dupont. I’m a web developer with a growing interest in web user interfaces and interaction design. I live in Austin, Texas, the least boring place on earth.

Most of my free time is spent messing around with JavaScript. I’m a member of the core development team of Prototype, the popular JavaScript toolkit.

I’m the author of Practical Prototype & script.aculo.us, a book about Prototype and its sister effects/UI library. It’s published by the wonderful folks at Apress and can be purchased from their web site, from Amazon, or from an actual bookstore, if you’re lucky.

When prodded, I’ve spoken at conferences about JavaScript in general and Prototype specifically — conferences like SXSW Interactive and The Ajax Experience. I might be interested in speaking at your conference, user group, wedding, or bar mitzvah. Drop me a line if you want to talk.

I relish opportunities to keep my CSS/HTML skills sharp. I’m also pretty good with server-side stuff — Ruby on Rails, PHP/MySQL, Apache, and the like. On the desktop I think I can hold my own at Photoshop and InDesign.

I was a Journalism major at The University of Texas at Austin, so I like to pretend I’m a copy editor. I’m the guy who fixes punctuation errors in Wikipedia articles.

A place to be vain and experimental. Actually, it serves chiefly as a place to put all my stuff. The Aggregated Andrew, if you will. Some would call it a tumblelog.

In short, the customary blog unit — the article — commingles with photos I’ve taken, quotations I find notable, links to sites I find interesting, code snippets I find useful, et cetera. It’s unstructured structured blogging.

You can e-mail me with this equation: (the word blog plus one of those ‘at’ signs plus the domain name you see in your address bar). You can find me all over the web, too. Or, if you prefer, you can just leave a comment on one of my posts and it’ll reach me.

Elsewhere

Twitter

  • Wow. Antihistamines are winning. WINNING HARD (1:05am Mar 27)
  • @atxryan Talk about damning with faint praise. (12:34am Mar 27)
  • @roblifford People often cite _Forrest Gump_ as being better than (or at least vastly different from) its book. Perhaps _Shawshank_ as well? (11:58pm Mar 26)
  • On the Papa John's site: "To include a tip for your driver, [...] do so at this time." A sentence constructed with twine and masking tape. (10:36pm Mar 26)
  • Testing out the Steven Wright "humidifier/dehumidifier" joke in my own body with caffeine and antihistamines. (9:55pm Mar 26)

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