About

RogerI'm a software designer and developer (some might even say "architect"). I started my career at InstallShield, where I was involved in designing and building one of the first development tools for Windows Installer.

My interests and passion lie with user experience and interaction design. I dabble in the graphic arts, though I'm not an expert.

The first program I ever wrote was in GW-BASIC. Once I got to college and learned that you could use Visual Basic 3.0 to write a Windows program, I never looked back. After toiling in the COM world with ATL for a while, I fell in love with programming all over again when C# was introduced. Now I'm working with HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript, and I've found it amazing what you can do.

I do my best to balance design sense, technical skill, and getting-things-done. Even years after making software my "day job", I still love to make things that look great, work well, solve a problem, and are a joy to build.

But enough about the geek credentials... The really important thing about me is that I'm dad to the cutest girls.

Why Mooville?

I grew up on a dairy farm that went by the name of Mooville. When I created my first personal home page, I designed a section called "Virtual Dairy Farm" that I used to experiment with new web technologies. Later I registered mooville.com as an homage to the farm, and I hosted Virtual Dairy Farm there for a while.

After growing tired of maintaining multiple sites, I wanted to consolidate my web presence, and I choose mooville.com as my domain.

Contact

You can reach me at roger@mooville.com.

License

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Can't Live Without

Star Wars

Red wine

A fine wristwatch

Moleskine notebooks

Best Ways to Spend a Weekend

With my girls at the park

At Wrigley Field

On the couch with the extended editions of The Lord of the Rings

Dinner, drinks, conversation, and games with friends and family

Someday I Want To

Visit every continent

Build an app that everybody has heard of

Hand-draw a map of the world

Speak, read, and write Chinese


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