Posted on Dec 17, 2011 in Misc., Music | 0 comments
A non-scientific look at the annual royalty revenue breakdown of everyone's favorite holiday prog-rock band.
Read MorePosted on Sep 25, 2011 in Design, Web Dev | 0 comments
Web forms serve as the primary way users interact with web sites. A form allows us to provide information in response to its questions and take action on that information. Despite their importance, some web developers miss the basics. One such form darkened my day recently when I needed to change a password at work. The form's misleading buttons threw me (and I'm sure most other users) for a loop. Let's see how this form should have been designed for a better user experience.
Read MorePosted on Sep 18, 2011 in Design, Web Dev | 1 comment
For the second year, I spoke to a group of UW Informatics students about web programming. A friend and colleague of mine, Tony Chang, teaches Informatics 344 during summer quarter. He asked me to speak to his students last year… apparently I wasn’t too bad off as he asked me again this year.
Rather than diving in deep into technical details as I did last year—the title was...
Read MorePosted on Sep 3, 2011 in Language | 0 comments
"I'm going to teach you something about sales," the salesman at my high-school job told me. I listened because his numbers were usually the highest each week; he clearly knew what he was doing. His good advice may have been about how to sell better, but it was really about language. The difference between the words "only" and "exclusively" is slim in meaning, but great in connotation.
Read MorePosted on Aug 13, 2011 in Martial Arts | 2 comments
For years I've studied multiple martial arts. At one point, I was training in kei-shin kan karate, shin shin toitsu aikido, and goju-ryu karate, which is heavily influenced by feeding-crane kung-fu. Though I had to give up one art—aikido—due to time constraints when my daughter came along, the two styles of karate alone are different enough to present a challenge. It's a challenge familiar to any martial artist who's studied more than one art simultaneously: how to keep them separate in one's head, and more importantly: in one's muscle memory. In this post I'll share three points that have helped me.
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Scott Bush is a web developer, former IT manager, husband, father, and many other things in Seattle, Wash. (Okay, it’s actually Kenmore but close enough). When he’s not coding, chasing after a toddler, or sucking down lattés, you can find him tinkering on his—or his clients—web sites, reading, or training martial arts. Crystal, his wife, has been making his life better since 2001, as has his daughter Emma, though only since 2010.
Hey! Thanks for visiting my site and my “About” page. Hope you find it interesting, at least enough not to click away immediately. I’ll adding content to this page as time goes on, but for now you can find out a bit more about me and my wife at our website, CrystalAndScott.com.
Some photos – Here’s a smattering of pictures of me. (Those with my wife and are clearly much nicer!) They were taken in exotic locales like Vietnam, Japan, and Everett, Wash.
