Hi.
I'm Jess Martin. I bring web products to market at Relevance.
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Projects
A collection of side projects I've worked on.
- CoolButtons - Nifty, iOS style glossy buttons for iOS.
- Taskpaper TextMate Bundle - Use TextMate to manage your Taskpaper files, complete with keyboard shortcuts and text highlighting.
- Language Popularity - Simple language popularity tracker based on usage and discussion on a few different sites.
- Procedural House Generation
Talks
Talks I've given in various venues.
- Learn to Speak Interface: Conversations Between Developers and Designers, delivered at RailsConf 2010, July 2010.
- 3 Tips to Make Your Site Feel Better, lightning talk at DevNation Austin, May 2010.
- 3 Questions of a Product Champion, delivered at DevNation Durham, February 2010.
- CSS and HTML: The One True Way, delivered at DevNation Boulder, October 2009.
- Cloud Talk: A RunCodeRun Case Study, delivered at DevNation Boston, August 2009.
- Getting Girls With Musical Magic and Ruby, delivered with Chad Humphries at Developer Day Durham, March 2009.
- Procedural House Generation: A method for dynamically generating floor plans, delivered at Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, March 2006.
Writings
A collection of writings across various subjects.
- Generating graphical content using grammars and graphs, Graduate Thesis, UNC-Chapel Hill.
Elsewhere on the web
I post pictures at RoadsAfar and Flickr.
I tweet.
I bookmark cool stuff at delicious.
I post code on github.
I read books and record progress on Shelfari.