Welcome
I am a technologist living and working in Denver, Colorado. I currently work at PSI, headquartered in Downtown Denver, and live with my wife and two daughters in Park Hill, a diverse neighborhood just east of downtown.
When not working, I enjoy hiking, biking, and skiing in Colorado's beautiful mountains, and, of course, spending time with my family. I write some and develop software for pleasure and profit. I'm currently enjoying developing some Ajax applications using Ruby on Rails and also working on some related projects using C++.
I believe software should be as small as practical to get the job done, should make few assumptions about the user (that can't be proven true), and should ultimately provide some compelling utility. I also believe software should never ever insinuate itself into your system, and that registry keys and "install" programs should not be the norm (unless you're writing a device driver). Oh, yeah, and the economic models around software development and delivery are in serious need of some tweaking.
By the by, I recently (Feb 28, 2009) had a partial installment on my fifteen minutes of fame. I was a listener-contestant on NPR's (totally awesome!) news-quiz show Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me! I've grabbed a copy of the show and am hosting it here. I'm about 34 minutes in, enjoy!
I don't devote a lot of time to my web site just now, but I will be building it out some in the coming months. Come back if you like, or drop me a line at rwales -at- robertwales -dot- com.