Right Back at You

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Alright, after quite the soap opera that involved half-finished repairs, broken promises, and one fired superintendant, I've moved into my new place. It feels good to have a homebase again.

Much has happened in the past month. Friend and fellow silveroranger Steven Garrity has gotten engaged to his lovely girlfriend fiancee. They're to be married next summer in Charlottetown. Congratulations to them both.

In keeping with that theme... last week was the Mr. Leatherman Competition right here in my own neighbourhood in Toronto. There was leather, latex, chains, and far too much skin to be seen on Church Street all through the day.

Our little company, silverorange, celebrated its fifth birthday. It's hard to believe we've been together that long since the fateful meeting across a diningroom table that began things.

In any case, I hope to be posting more regularly again now that things are a bit more settled. I've also almost got enough favicons collected for another installment to the collection.

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Carol Anne -

Hello there! Welcome to TO. It's nice to know another fellow islander has arrived. Where abouts do you live? Maybe I'll let you know next time we have an east coast gathering? (which happens quite frequently)

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Daniel Burka

My name is Daniel Burka. I'm a web designer living in San Francisco. Currently, I'm one of the founders of Milk Inc.. For several years I was the creative director at Digg and previous to Milk, I was the director of design at Tiny Speck. I grew up in PEI, Canada, where I was one of the founders of silverorange. Aside from obsessing about interface design and css selectors, I'm a frequently-falling rock climber, a lazy cyclist, and an often out-of-bounds disc golfer.

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I'm a web designer living in San Francisco, California. I sometimes get the chance to present lectures and workshops at conferences around the world, where I speak about iterative design strategies, designing for large online communities, and more broadly about interface design for web applications. I've posted many of the slides from past presentations I've done on Slideshare.

Currently, I'm the director of design at a small gaming startup called Tiny Speck. Until October 2009, I was the creative director at Digg. I was also one of the co-founders of the social content-sharing site Pownce, which is now a part (heh heh) of Six Apart. Back in 1999, I helped found silverorange, a stellar web development and design firm based in Prince Edward Island, Canada. I continue to work with silverorange, but as an inactive partner.

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The technology that powers this blog was built by silverorange on their Swat open-source web application toolkit. I'm no longer working on day-to-day projects at silverorange, but they're available for hire if you're looking for top-notch interface design or web application development.

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