The FullCodePress judges
You think building a website in 24 hours is hard? Think about what it’s going to take to judge the three websites – built by the best web people from each country – and imagine the stress the judges will be under!
Here’s the six judges for FullCodePress 2010.
Philip Fierlinger
Philip Fierlinger is Head of Design at Xero. According to customers worldwide, Xero makes accounting fun, sexy and addictive. Philip’s work continues to receive major awards, sets new standards in design and helps generate millions of dollars in revenue. He’s done groundbreaking work for a wide range of major clients, including Apple, Beastie Boys and the United Nations. In addition, he conducts popular workshops on agile design and rapid prototyping. He also tends to ask a lot of questions.
Michael Koziarski
Michael “Koz” Koziarski is a software development consultant and partner at Southgate Labs. After a successful stint as an enterprise Java developer, he switched to Ruby on Rails shortly after the first public release. Since then he has spoken at dozens of conferences, and helped many different companies improve the quality and speed of their software development work.
Sarah Taylor
Sarah Hawk Taylor started out life as an architect – the building kind, not the software kind – but the lure of the software became too much so she dropped her pencils and taught herself to code. After more than a decade working as a web application developer for Fuji Xerox, she left to have a family and follow the road of the freelancer. These days Sarah telecommutes across the Tasman and works for SitePoint as their Community Manager.
Andy Hume
Andy is a developer at the web consultancy firm Clearleft in the UK, where he works on code for all manner of people, including the BBC, NBC Universal and Mozilla.
A former lead engineer at Microsoft he’s been working with web technology for nearly ten years and is passionate about the open web, web standards, and inter-operability. He’s written for magazines like Computer Arts Projects and .Net Magazine, and sometimes speaks and gives lectures at universities and colleges.
Roger Hudson
Roger has provided website usability and accessibility services to corporate, government and not-for-profit organizations for more than a decade. He has conducted many accessibility testing sessions with web users who have different disabilities. He is familiar with the legal requirements in Australia relating to the provision of accessible web content and has a detailed knowledge of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 1.0 and WCAG 2.0). He has presented workshops in both Australia and the US and has written numerous articles on different aspects of website usability and accessibility.
Peter Griffin
Peter Griffin is the former Technology Editor of the New Zealand Herald and spent nearly eight years covering business and technology for the paper as a reporter and columnist, winning numerous awards. He was the technology columnist for the Herald on Sunday and a commentator for TVNZ, radio New Zealand and Radio Live while as a freelancer he wrote widely on technology for magazines such as PC World, Idealog and the New Zealand Listener. In 2005 he relocated to Wellington to complete a masters degree in creative writing at Victoria University’s Institute of Modern Letters.
