About Me and Everynobody.com
Howdy! I wasn't sure if I wanted to put in the near obligatory "about me" page for a personal site (since I know that nobody actually cares about it), but I went ahead and did it anyways. Besides, if you're reading this, you're probably either my mom or my wife.
Who am I?
"If someone accused you of being a software developer, would there be enough evidence to convict?" --my motto
My name is Ian Patrick Hughes and I am a 33 year old developer who currently lives in South Beach San Francisco, CA with a snooty cat that gets expensive haircuts, a 40 year old parrot who loves lasagna 
and my wife who also codes and designs for the web (so I don't usually have to shop for electronics soley based on their substantial WAF).
My first computer was a Commodore 64 but I also used an Apple II GS a lot at school in GATE classes as a child (particularly to play Tass Times in Tonetown after class). The first computer I programmed on was using BASIC on a Packard Bell 386sx (um, it had a friggin' "turbo button") running Windows for Workgroups 3.11. Like many developers, I credit my early exposure to computers, electronics, and role playing games to my life long dedication to all things nerdery. I started out coding VBA for excel and Access 95 and building applications in Visual Basic 5 while I was in college. After that I moved into developing for the web using "classic" ASP for several years until jumping into C# and ASP.NET after the 1.1 release and never looked back. I have spent a lot of time in SQL Server too (since version 7), so I feel comfortable in SQL (IMHO, it is still the best DSL for accessing a database). However, I am also very interested in different data store scenarios using technologies like Cloud Services, OR/M's, and No SQL projects.
These days I enjoy working in ASP.NET MVC, client side frameworks, all that mobile stuff the kids are so crazy about, and also a few non-Microsoft languages like Python and Ruby. Pretty much, I love this stuff, and couldn't picture myself doing anything else.
What About This Site?
"Your email is at 'everynobody', eh? Doesn't sound like you work at a place with very confident people."--lady at the DMV
For the most part over the years, this site has really just been a place for me to stage client work, sandbox alpha level projects, or really just a place to FTP junk to myself before cloud services became ubiquitous. Eventually it became an online resume (prior to sites like LinkIn), especially when I launched it as blogging site that I built from scratch in classic ASP for job seeking purposes.
So, what is up with that logo, you ask?
Well, it’s supposed to be Einstein and Elvis calling for all "Morts" (or "every nobody" developer out there).
If you are not familiar with the Einstein, Elvis, and Mort paradigm; well, you can read about it just about anywhere. Anyways, after first learning about this concept many years ago, my first reaction was actually to embrace the title instead of determining which one of my programming peers was Mort, while I considered (desperately) all of the reasons that I was not. So, when I decided to re-launch my personal blog, I decided that I would dedicate it to all of the Morts out there and write about software development from my perspective.
No? You meant the graphic with the silhouette of a man panhandling his coding skills?
Well, a while ago (prior to the economic downturn) I had done a photo shoot for some creative project where we were playing around the idea of "programming for food". This was actually going to be part of a fundraiser where a group of us would donate programming hours to companies in exchange for donations to a local food bank. We were unable to really get the concept to materialize and I kind of forgot about it, until recently when I was playing around with design concepts for this site. I Googled "will program for food" and discovered that I was a top ranking image hit. Even worse, there was an article about game developers experiencing difficulty in finding work that used one of the images of me. Oy. Well, much like the "Mort" title, I just decided to embrace it and see what I could do with it, and well, there you go.