TimKadlec.com

So Who is this Tim Guy?

I am a 24 year-old web developer living and working in Wisconsin. I started getting into web development in the fall of 2005. At that point I wasn't even sure what CSS was. I had heard that it made changing things like font styles and sizes easier, and thought I may want to look into that.

So I picked up "Eric Meyer on CSS" by the lengendary master of CSS, Eric Meyer. That book, as well as "Designing With Web Standards" by Jeffrey Zeldman, and "DOM Scripting" by Jeremy Keith, will always be remembered with great fondness as the three books that first inspired me to improve the way that I code.

That is not to say I haven't read more on the topic. I am very passionate about web development, and I figure I owe it to myself to become as good as I possibly can be at this craft (a goal that will always be worked towards and hopefully never achieved).

I live with my beautiful wife Kate, and our cockatiel, Trudy (who suffers from severe abandonment issues). I always have some sort of music on, usually country or some classic hard rock. I also enjoy a good movie (particularly if Denzel Washington is involved), watching the Packers, and anything that has to do with basketball.

About this Site

This site was designed and developed by me using valid XHTML and CSS.

The blog is created from scratch using VBScript and MySQL. I started with the system The Answerman came up with, and then tweaked it (added more features, changed a few coding things, etc.) until I was happy with it.

Why with all the blogging systems out there would I go through the hassle of writing one from scratch? A large part of the reason is because I enjoy the learning process. Going through the whole coding was an incredible learning experience, and there is more learning to be done. There are still several more features I plan on adding in the future after I have had some more time to research the appropriate solutions.