My Day Job

Sometimes it’s hard to explain how I build web applications–so here’s a time-lapsed view of the changes I made to one page this afternoon:

That code allows a user of the application to rearrange columns of a “supertable”…a year ago I wouldn’t have been able to understand that code, let alone write it. It’s kind of fun…but it also underscores the importance of good design decisions up front, and lightweight prototypes to test usability. Once you start writing code, it gets a lot harder to make changes.