About This Site

Born Geek is an independent development house founded in 2004. We offer free extensions for the Firefox web browser, free Windows software, and development tutorials of all sorts. I also maintain an active blog that covers topics of all sorts.

This website is currently powered by WordPress. My previous platform of choice was Movable Type, and before that I developed by hand. As has always been the case at Born Geek, strict XHTML 1.0 is used for markup and CSS is used for the visual presentation. Web Standards have long been important to me, and I highly recommend Jeffrey Zeldman’s book on the subject: Designing With Web Standards. This book single-handedly opened my eyes to the world of web standards; how glad I am to have seen the light!

Hosting is provided by DreamHost, where prices are cheap and features are rich. Did you know that you can save money by using Born Geek as your referrer when you sign up with DreamHost? It’s easy: learn how.

About the Author

My name is Jonah Bishop and I work as a System X tools developer at IBM. The team I work with develops C++ test tools which get used to test IBM hardware. Outside of work I enjoy a number of ‘geeky’ subjects: web development, programming, digital photography, and (most importantly) gaming.

In December of 2004 I graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the Computer Science Department at North Carolina State University. I hope to further my education at some point, though I’m not sure when I’ll get around to doing that.

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