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27 August 2003

Today over at DreamweaverFever.com I announced that I would be removing my Dreamweaver extensions from the public domain. My reasoning is that a) many are too old to be useful and b) many are crap and buggy, and are a burden to support. A millstone around my neck, at times.

It’s not an easy decision to make, to be honest. I guess this is a little like the poem thing I was talking about last week. Although most of the extensions I have written are pretty rough, they are from a certain period in my life and hold many memories.

I remember writing a dreadful extension to make a text message follow your mouse pointer around the page. Bloody awful thing. It was hacked together by Al Sparber, Eddie Traversa and myself one evening. Al and Eddie got the script together, and I turned it into something that would work in Dreamweaver. I literally sat up all night hacking away at it, finally getting to bed just before dawn. No doubt I was late for work that day, too. Memories.

I’ve been away for a few days, hence the silence. Thanks for the emails.

- Drew McLellan

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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.