Joshua Jenkins

I haven’t really been cutting it as a web designer at Parliament, so John handled our website refresh.

Normal day at work.

Look at this nerd!!!!!

The highlight of last Wednesday’s Parliament holiday party was not, as you may have assumed, me shattering a glass with strength and manliness. In fact it was our white elephant gift exchange. I was the lucky recipient of 2.5 pounds of mixed puzzle pieces in separate sacks.

The real winner, however, was Parliament main man and all around great human Chris Erickson who was smart enough to steal (legally) my Kanye West portrait on a locker door, pictured above.

Yes, I get paid to make websites, but my true love is poorly drawing things on other things. Yes, I’m accepting requests for commissions. Yes, these pieces are very costly and very unlicensed.

This is genuinely the best thing I have ever done.

John Brown and I needed something to manage snippets of code that we constantly reuse at Parliament. So I made an application to suit our needs over the past couple of days.

It’s fun to just bust out an app over the course of a few days. For the technically minded this runs on Django, WSGI, and SQLite3. It makes use of a few great python libraries, most notably pygments. The frontend is HTML5 and just a touch of jQuery. I couldn’t have built it without John’s guiding beard.

It still needs a bit of work, but it’s totally usable and we’re all happy now. There’s some level of possibility that something similar to this might be public facing someday. Maybe.

In which John struggles with seventy degree temperatures.

As a fair-weather Flash skeptic I was pleased to have the opportunity to work with John Brown and the Parliament crew to replicate our existing Flash-based company website with web standards. We produced a near carbon-copy of the previous site with HTML, CSS, and Javascript. It was a challenging project, but with John’s hard work and my cursory understanding of how to turn on a Personal Computer we managed to work through it. You might think that switching from Flash you’d lose some of the polish, but in reality type renders considerably nicer and the animations are as smooth as LL Cool J.

I’m proud of the work we did and feel fortunate to have the opportunity to work on projects like this.

Note: if you find some sort of issue with the site please let me know by presenting the information in the form of a compliment-issue sandwich (opening compliment, issue, closing compliment).

I, and a couple others, have been drawing John Brown and putting them on the wall. It’s going as well as this kind of thing can go.

Debris is now at least half posts about John Brown. Live it.

Hey there, internet. I have some fairly large news to share with you. Why don’t you have a seat? That’s it, thanks.

I’m currently finishing up my time with Amplitude Media where I’ve gotten to work with some fantastic people on some great projects. In the very short term I will be joining the amazing team at Parliament as a Web Designer. Needless to say I am extremely excited for the opportunity where I intend to kick all the asses they supply me with in concert with the other amazing ass kickers currently kicking ass there.

The images you’re staring at are of Parliament’s World Headquarters (they have thousands of offices on dozens of continents). Photos by the very talented Lincoln Barbour.

Once I get situated you will have to stop by and say hello after taking the requisite shower with lemons and sandpaper at the building entrance. The future is bright and I’m not wearing sunglasses or something something metaphor.