I'm Sam, a 20 year old developer currently living and working in the beautiful city of Christchurch, New Zealand. Unlike a lot of people who develop software for a living, I didn't write my first program at an early age, nor have I ever owned any computer running an OS from any time before the year 2000 (in fact, the first computer that I personally owned ran Windows XP).
My first taste of programming came in the form of Visual Basic, after picking up a book on the subject from the local (now defunct) Borders; I understood very little of it at first, but seeing the code I had written come to life on the screen was more than enough to grab my attention. A number of years later, after the launch of the App Store, I was introduced to Xcode, the Objective-C language, and the Cocoa Touch framework, which continue to remain my obsession to this day.
Almost every line of the markup for the site was written in Espresso 2, with a little help from TextMate.
Version control is taken care of with Git, although file comparisons were handed off to Kaleidoscope. If you're looking for a prettier version control system, give Versions a test drive, or, alternatively, Cornerstone.
Everything FTP related was handled with Transmit, an excellent app developed by Panic, Inc.
(Side note: if you're looking for something which covers most of the above tasks in a single app, you can't do much better than Coda, another brilliant app from Panic.)
All Objective-C code was written, of course, in Xcode, from Apple.
This site uses HTML 5 & CSS 3 extensively, and is best viewed in anything powered by WebKit. It makes use of the excellent Bootstrap framework for the contact form and blog post popovers. Mint, a wonderful self-hosted view tracking package created by Shaun Inman, is used to manage site analytics.
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