Quiller Caudill

Biography and Other Stuff

About the Author

Quiller Caudill is a professional web developer based out of Lincoln, Nebraska. He graduated from NWU with a bachelor's degree in English in 2007. When not producing the best web sites the world has ever seen, he enjoys collecting movies and perfecting his home entertainment system.

Quiller spends an unjustifiably large amount of time following the Huskers, who used to be pretty darned good at football. He also has a cat and enjoys literally any form of frisbee.*

Professional Background

Quiller currently works as a front-end developer for a small development company. He spends the majority of his time engrossed in stylesheets and various templating systems, with the time left over devoted to tasks ranging from browser compatibility testing to content entry to the occasional interface design.

He began working in the field at the tender age of 17, when he was hired as a "splicer" by an emerging marketing firm. While this position stands as his first professional experience, Quiller had been wasting time with web sites as early as his junior high years.

Quiller's primary specialties lie in CSS, XHTML (and related markup languages), Javascript and browser compatibility. He greatly enjoys working with new techniques, templating engines and other emerging technologies.

* Not including minced or fried.

Portfolio

While I've been fortunate to work with many talented designers over the years, as a developer my contribution lies in the background—putting the pretty elements together, constructing various Javascript or AJAX functionality, interfacing with a database, etc. As such, the following projects serve to illustrate my experience and versatility within the field of web development.

Various Pits and Pieces

Recommended Destinations

Folks that spend their livelihoods tied up with this Internet thing—such as yours truly, for instance—can't help but have some inside knowledge. As part of my duty to the public, I've compiled a short list of stuff that deserves your attention.

Practical

Humor (or just plain silly)

Sports and Entertainment

Firefox Extensions

The list below represents my personal selection of Firefox extensions. I provide this list not out of vanity (well, maybe), but for reference. I find them useful, so chances are a couple might appeal to you, as well.

Disclaimer: If you don't use Firefox, you should. The only acceptable reason not to is if you're one of those Opera dudes. If neither of these categories apply to you—or you have no idea what's going on—then you'll kindly pimp your browser.

Quillictionary

These words are completely fictional, horribly contrived, infrequently humorous and generally ignorant of all linguistic rules. They represent concepts that would otherwise go un-worded, a travesty I cannot idly tolerate. Feel free to suggest your your own insignificant creations of insanity—and don't pretend you're above this sort of thing.

quill·ic·tion·ar·y

  • Reference containing a list of fictional words and information pertaining to the meaning associated with each
  • Collection of letters which accidentally managed to form a cohesive, almost-comprehendable list of word
  • List of words that only further prove the usefulness of the author(s)

trend·i·ef·fect·i·fied

  • Result of an object that has assumed the quality of being trendy
  • Consequence of an element acheiving the status of a trend
  • Status of ineptitute gained by falling into the trap of trends, fads, and other aspects of stupidity

hip·pen·in'

  • Quality of an attractive deed or action performed by an individual considered socially preferable
  • Accepted action of increased intrigue
  • Extreme achievement of awesomeness

stom·ache

  • Dull, steady pain located in the abdomen or belly
  • Linguistic contraction formed by combining the terms "stomach" and "ache"

flav·or·ite

  • Flavor regarded with special intrigue or preference
  • Self explanatory combination of two words that it isn't even worth the time to list

grood

  • Witty combination of the common adjectives "good" and "great"

Quote Database

People said these things; somebody (presumably) wrote them down; an unspecified amount of time later I read them. In other words, these quotes are cool. I don't guarantee their authenticity, hilarity or emotional impact, but I do guarantee that—for one reason or another—I found them worth remembering.

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Contact Information

I try to respond to all comments in a timely fashion, but I'm not immortal. If I forget or intentionally ignore you, well, keep bugging me.

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If you're too lazy busy to open your e-mail client of choice, worry no more! The following form, upon your clickage of "Submit," will be magically submitted to my e-mail box.

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