About

Chris Pederick

Chris Pederick is a web developer originally from London, England, but now living in San Francisco, California. He is currently a Technical Architect at Avenue A | Razorfish, an interactive services firm, working with a variety of clients on multiple accounts. Read his resume for more information.

He is also known for his Firefox extensions - primarily the Web Developer extension - which he writes in his free time and distributes for free under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

chrispederick.com

chrispederick.com is the personal web site of Chris Pederick containing his blog, work, photos and videos. The site is written mainly in custom PHP, although the blog is powered by WordPress and the forums are powered by PunBB.

A number of APIs are used to pull in content from other sites:

• Maps are powered by the Yahoo! Maps API
• Photos are powered by the Flickr API using the phpFlickr framework
• Search is powered by the Yahoo! Search API
• Videos are powered by the Vimeo API

Simple feed parsing is used to pull in content from the following sites:

• Books are powered by Goodreads
• Events are powered by Upcoming
• Links are powered by Ma.gnolia
• Updates are powered by Twitter

The site is hosted with Media Temple.