I am a software designer / developer located in Bonny Doon, CA just north of Santa Cruz.

For more information about me, see my resume and , and email me with any inquiries.

Looking for a different Michael Fairman? See the Other Fairmans section below.

Visually explore online galleries, catalogs, auctions, and more — all in one zoom-tastic view.

No more scrolling and paging through long lists. See everything and find anything!

(This is a quick prototype from over a year ago; something better is in the works...)

« I built this website for my wife's new venture, a local market in Bonny Doon. At any size — from small to huge — the page adjusts itself to fit just-right so you don't have to scroll around or maximize your window. A few subtle animations and a slick slideshow make this site fun to visit!

Some simple pages for sharing family news and info. The boxes on these pages are automatically laid out to fit the browser window at any size; shrinking the window won't clip contents and growing it won't leave lots of dead space. And if you scale the fonts up and down everything scales. Try them — on an iPhone too!

These are a few other sites I did on contract. The multiple user-viewable pages are implemented within a single browser page, allowing for quicker loads and smooth transitions between pages -- and the content is pure HTML so the search engines see everything.

« This is a stealth project; not much to see yet except a landing page. Like most of my pages, it scales to fit the user's window whether it is small like an iPhone or huge like an HD monitor.

(Stay tuned for more updates on this... it's going to be really cool!)

    For web pages, I write HTML and Javascript (usually with the the jQuery or Dojo Toolkit libraries) using the Coda editor. On the server-side, I write PHP and Ruby code under various frameworks: CodeIgniter, Rails, and others.

    For graphics, I use Lineform and Pixelmator. They are both simple and fast, and offer top-notch features at a very reasonable price.

    And the tools I use for native and embedded development include gcc, git, XCode, VMWare &mdash the usual.

A few shots of my workspace:

Viewer: FancyBox

I like:
Arcosanti • arXiv

Ruby • JQuery • Dojo

git • github

Scott Walker Electric Guitars

Porsche 914 • Electric Six

Google News • Wikipedia

TradeVibes • Killer Startups

Pod-A-Lyzer 8020

• Lisa Palm, my wife.

• Palm-Fairman, our family.

• Bonny Doon Elementary School, where our kids go.

• Navigating Transitions, my Mom's strategic consulting business.

• Phlogiston, my Dad's place.

• James (Colonel) Fairman, artist (deceased great-great-grandfather)

Unrelated naming coincidences:

• Fairman Denmark, tube amplifiers, compressors, and equalizers (Denmark)

• Fairman Studios, medical and biological illustrations/animations (Boston)

• Fairman's Skate, Snow and Surf Shop, action gear (Philadelphia)

• Huck Fairman, author (New York)

• Mike Fairman, singer/songwriter (Arkansas)

• Michael Fairman, producer, writer and journalist (L.A.)

• Michael E. Fairman, actor (New York)

• The Fairman Quadrangle, an area of Illinois