Saturday, November 13, 2010

J Cornelius

J Cornelius with CoffeeCup software was a guest speaker in our MIST 7540 class. J has been involved in software development for many years. He has a wide and varied background in both the business and technical sides of web development. He also is the organizer of the Atlanta Web Design Group (AWDG). He continues to be very active in the AWDG.

The one take away for me from what J talked about is to follow where my imagination takes me. J challenged my MIT class to continue to be innovative and imaginative with regard to web development. There is so still so much to be discovered about what the web can do and do for users. J wants us to "think outside the box". We should go about web development without thinking about the "what ifs", but just do it.

J is an example of the term, walking the talk. CoffeeCup began in the middle 1990s as a coffee house where some of the employees did a little web design and development on the side. As the web grew and matured, their web work quickly became more profitable than the coffee house. J and the other employees of CoffeeCup have developed innovative user friendly software to help anyone develop "cool websites" and they continue to be innovative (think outside the box). An example of this is S-Drive which is currently in beta testing. S-Drive will allow a user with one click of a button to put a website online. As development continues on S-Drive, according to J, there will be more "cool" features such as file sharing. Continuing to think outside the box is the "cool" thing.

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