I have a confession to make. When I start a new work or freelance project, I often become obsessed with the search to find the perfect tool to help me get the job done. For some reason, I love the process of researching, testing, and comparing software and web applications and I jump at the […]
I don’t think I’ve officially mentioned this on my blog before, but one of the two businesses I helped startup is a company called Greeneye e-Manifest. What we do, in a nutshell, is make very easy for Canadian trucking companies to submit an electronic manifest of what’s in their trailers, and where it’s coming from, […]
Life has been chaotic so far this summer, and I have a feeling it’ll be staying like that for quite awhile. There are a lot of things going on, such as working my butt off to graduate in August, starting up and growing a business (sorry — I still can’t announce it on the internet. […]
Though I didn’t have much time for blogging last week in between work and life, I wanted to pass along one of my favorite new blogs to you. It’s called Brazen Careerist, by Boston Globe columnist Penelope Trunk. Penelope offers lots of great career advice to readers, especially those on the early end of their […]
I’m excited to say that very soon I will be finally be able to tell you all where I’ve been working and what I’ve been working on for over a year. It took a lot longer than any of us expected, but all of that extra time means a product that is beyond anything we […]
Here is our Chirstmas card and letter for 2006. Enjoy the holidays! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year from the Berberichs! Our family saw many changes in 2006. From a growing boy, to a career change, to a new home, we have a lot to share with you. Kael is growing up faster than we […]
I’m always excited to read or hear information that challenges conventional wisdom, so I really liked this article that arrived in my RSS reader this morning: Label Placement in Forms. In it, results and recommendations of a web form eyetracking study are given. Eyetracking records the movements of users’ eyes as they use a website, […]
Let’s face it: The barriers to becoming a programmer are extremely low. Whether this is a good or bad thing is debatable, but an almost infinite number of internet resources means that anyone with the time and desire can learn pretty much any programming language. This, my friends, is a problem. You see, a lot […]
Right now I’m in the middle of designing a website for one of the new businesses. It’s work that I enjoy very much, giving me the chance to stretch the creative side of my brain and apply my knowledge of branding, marketing, accessibility, usability, and most recently, search engine optimization. During the initial design round, […]
Here is some quasi-random about what I’ve been up to lately. Just to warn you, it’s going to be all over the map! We got back late last night from a long weekend in the Wisconsin Dells. We stayed at the Wilderness Resort with some friends, and had a good time (minus the injuries). Pictures […]