The Pan Painter

Due to the clutter that is this site’s current design, you may not have noticed that I’ve started making posts on my “Designer on Rails” blog.  In short (and you can read more over there), it’s a blog that’s chronicling my experiences learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails.  I’ll be posting sample code there, as well as explaining my solutions to the problems that are presented.  I hope to make this a weekly update (it’ll be a little more common in the first few weeks while I catch up on some backlog), generally lagging a week behind the class’s assignments (after all, I want to know how I did on the homework).

Anyway, check it out, and I hope that someone else can benefit from my experiences.

Ok, so, first of all congratulations are in order - you’ve found my blog!  If you’re in the dark about this discovery that you’ve made, let me enlighten you.

This is the personal blog of Mike Tierney, a web designer / illustrator / icon designer working at a software company in Seattle.  (Of course, the usual disclaimers apply - any opinions expressed here in no way reflect those of my employer.)

Anyway, boring stuff aside - this is where I’ll be writing articles on a wide variety of topics, from Application Design to Illustration to whatever new-shiny-thing has captured my attention.  You’ll probably see the design of the site shift from time to time (especially here in the next few months) while I settle in to a solid identity package.

I’m a tad ADD, so be warned that my topics will probably jump around a bit erratically, but I will work hard to make sure that I deliver high quality posts.  I’ll be writing both opinion pieces as well as tutorials, so there should be something for everyone here.  For more about me, you can read more on my about page, and I’ll try to keep that as up-to-date as possible.  My only promise for this site is that I’ll be honest and straightforward in my writings.  These are my opinions, and I have no delusions that I have some vast audience that is hanging on every word (though that’ll likely get me through some of my posts).  My only hope is that something I share here can help someone else in the realm of web design/development.

So, happy reading, and thanks for stopping by.