Rob Brackett,
- maker of fine softwares,
- long-distance hiker,
- racquetball fiend,
- espresso drinker.
Currently residing in the SF Bay area.
rob at robbrackett dot com
Get in touch.
So here’s the skinny: I’m Rob, an intrepid front-end/UI engineer. I’m pretty excited about crafting rich, interactive software (especially on the web) that works well for real people. As the Lead Engineer at Involution Studios, a damn fine little UI design shop in Silicon Valley, I’m working to realize that vision every day.
But that’s the professional story. On days when I am allowed to roam free of a computer, you can find me running around a racquetball court like a madman, hiking, backpacking (I’m slowly conquering the AT), or out for a ride on my 1979 BMW R65.
Want to know more? Check my résumé or other profiles across the web:
[Projects]
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Simple Selection
Js
A JavaScript library that provides a simple, cross-browser way to find out about and change the content a user has selected on a page. It also provides a selection event that occurs whenever a user makes or changes a selection. -
McAfee SecurityCenter (Beta)
JsWin
I led a team at Involution Studios, consulting with McAfee to help design and engineer the UI for SecurityCenter 10 (in beta now). We created a JS library similar to SproutCore or Cappucino (you work with controls, not the DOM) that made the UI easy for their engineering team. -
SharedWebConfig
Py
Tool for automatically configuring the built-in Apache web server in OS X on several machines. Originally developed for use at a design studio where everyone needed to have the same development environment set up. -
WebSketch Editor
Web
In wrote a full-fledged, drag ’n’ drop web-page designer in HTML and JavaScript for WebSketch. You can check it out by signing up or watching their demo video. -
Firefox Profiles
OS X
Very simple script for maintaining multiple versions of Firefox on Mac OS X.