Who's My Lil' Developer???!!!
Wow, it’s like the first day at a new school! I hope the kids are nice to me…
Howdy everyone, and welcome to something very new and very spifftacular in application development! I’m more proud that I can say to be a part of this. And I’m crazy-excited about things, too!
Here’s how things usually work from a Mac-dev’s perspective: We look at the market. We try to get an idea of what people want, that they don’t yet know that they want since nobody has yet created it. We implement what we think that you want, hoping that we’re right along the way. If we’re lucky, we have good testers that we can show things to along the way, who will tell us “Dude, that sucks. Do it this way instead!” At the end, we release something that, if we’re lucky, is somewhat close to what you actually wanted in the first place.
Things are totally different here: You tell us exactly what you want. You beat each other up until only the best ideas remain. We code ‘em up, working with the winner, a designer, and you guys the entire time. You see what we’re doing daily, so if I take any wrong turns, I’ll have 50 kajillion people telling me in no uncertain terms that I suck and should go program RealBasic appz for the local community college.
And the result is going to be amazing! Together, we’re going to create the sickest, sweetest, most beautiful, most functional, most straight-up-drop-dead sexy app that the world has ever seen!
So, yeah, I’m excited. :)
Jason Harris
ShapeShifter/Chicken of the VNCJason Harris has been coding up spiffiness and silliness for about ten years, working on such diverse projects as a solid-state quantum computing simulator for electron waves in GaAs semiconductors and a Monte Carlo simulator for electron transport in nanostructure devices. He also wrote insane, down-to-the-metal microcontroller assembly language code for Octofungi, a robotic sculpture. In the Mac world, he's the primary author of ShapeShifter, Mighty Mouse, ThemePark, and heads the open-source Chicken of the VNC and Paranoid Android projects. He digs mountain biking, skateboarding, art, martinis, loud music, and creating oddly euphonious phrases. He never wears shoes if he can help it and can dance like a mofo!
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