I have been practicing, researching, and writing about web development up and down the stack
since the blink tag was still a thing. I’m wildly passionate about accessibility and open
standards. I’m a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, and a routine
presenter and participant in professional developer groups and meetups in Chicago.
Formerly a tenured university professor, I currently work for
Daily as a senior engineer focused on developer relations.
Latest Book
Programming WebRTC: Build
Real-Time Streaming Applications for the Web (Pragmatic Programmers, 2022). Build your
own video chat application—but that’s just the beginning. With WebRTC, you’ll create real-time
applications to stream any kind of user media and data directly from one browser to another,
all built on familiar HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Power real-time activities like text-based
chats, secure peer-to-peer file transfers, collaborative brainstorming sessions—even
multiplayer gaming. And you’re not limited to two connected users: an entire chapter of the
book is devoted to engineering multipeer WebRTC apps that let groups of people communicate in
real time. You’ll create your own video conferencing app. It’s all here.
If you’re a former student, I’m happy to serve as a reference for you when you apply for
scholarships, internships, jobs, and so on. Please send me a copy of your latest resume, and
if I need to write a letter or something, please also give me at least two week’s notice. And
if you just want to stay in touch or ask a question, I would love to hear from you.
