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We have a winner

14 November 2003

The ReUSEIT contest has announced the winner. Jolly good show.

When I was at junior school in the 80s, we used to have all sorts of themed competitions, such as making easter hats, dressing up as characters from books and so on. I was always win (or do very well) simply because my parents were teachers at a different school (on whose premises we also lived) and had a huge amount of resources like craft material at their disposal. Granted, it took effort, but I had an advantage from the get-go.

The great thing about competitions on the web like ReUSEIT is that the playing field is completely flat. Everyone has as much chance as everyone else, and it simply comes down to talent and creativity. Very democratic, and a very cool place to be.

- Drew McLellan

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  1. § Tore: Funny that the top two entrys don’t spell Jacob Nielsen’s name right in their header graphics...

    Neilsen... nah!
    Nielson... nope!

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Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

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