Celebrity Interview: Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain
Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain is a self-taught web developer from Ontario, Canada. He said goodbye to his day job in 2002 and started 31Three, a design business that focuses on interface development and xhtml/css standards compliant code.
1. What OS/platform do you primarily develop in?
I work on a Mac, and have OS X 10.4 installed. I also have a PC for checking sites on.
2. What’s your (X)HTML editor of choice for coding websites?
I jump back and forth between skEdit and TextWrangler. If I’m developing from scratch I use skEdit, but if I’m doing updates off of the server, I’ll use TextWrangler.
3. How did you decide on this as your primary editor?
skEdit has a great code-completion feature that saves a lot of time. It’s a lot cheaper than Dreamweaver as well.
4. What’s the one (or more) feature of the software you couldn’t live without?
Code-completion and code hinting.
5. If you were in charge of choosing new features for this piece of software, what feature(s) would you add?
I’d like to see the live preview as a split screen instead of a separate window. Wouldn’t mind code hinting for ExpressionEngine either.
6. Bonus Unrelated Question: What’s the best book you’ve read in the last year?
Waking the Dead [.com|.ca] by John Eldredge and Don’t Make Me Think [.com|.ca] by Steve Krug.
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Great interview, and one of my favorite designers!
Comment by Natalie Jost — June 15, 2006 @ 11:33 am
Jesse da man! I had the pleasure of working with Jesse back in his newspaper days. A gentleman, creative wonder and all around good guy!
Comment by Andrew Elliot — August 2, 2006 @ 7:00 am