About Me

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Welcome to my blog. My name is David Golding, and I’m a professional web developer, author, and graduate student.

Favorites

Serif Fonts
Minion Pro, Arno Pro Display, Goudy Old Style

Sans-serif Fonts
Myriad Pro Semibold Condensed, Helvetica Neue, Delicious, Frutiger

Programming Frameworks
CakePHP, Rails, Cocoa, Cappuccino, jQuery

Operating Systems
Mac OS X, Linux

Web Hosting
Media Temple Dedicated Virtual

Development Tools
Panic’s Coda for coding
Screenflow for screencasts
Sequel Pro for MySQL DB management

Fiction
The Idiot/Crime and Punishment/Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky (I know, I’m kinda cheating by lumping these three together…)

Least Favorites

Fonts
Times New Roman! Trajan Pro! Zapfino! (Way overdone if you ask me.) Usual culprits: Comic Sans, Courier, Chicago, Verdana, Gill Sans

Companies
Microsoft, Qwest Communications, any web host that oversells, any company that makes over $200 billion in profit in a single year and still markets to failing economies (ExxonMobil, that means you!)

Music
Rap, Country, Goth, Hip Hop

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