This is the online home of Eric Fehse

Welcome to my humble pages, traveller!

I earn my money as a User Interface Designer and Web Developer at a German company that produces a web application for the area of industrial automation. My work is centered around gathering user requirements, creating screen flow diagrams and user interface prototypes (in ASP.NET) and conducting usability tests. I am also doing a lot of coding in C# and Javascript (with help from the awesome jQuery library), developing highly interactive, reusable web controls based on my design work.

But I’m also a huge fan of the open source movement. That’s why I use some of my spare time to tinker with (mostly web related) open source tools. Not so long ago, I discovered Python, and found it the most elegant programming language I (happen to) know. Along came Django, the Python based web application framework. I immediately fell in love with its power and simplicity. It’s just amazing how quickly I was able to realize a working prototype of a database powered web app!

So I decided to get real and put together my own web site. Because I also like the idea of mashups, I started with developing an integration for my del.icio.us bookmarks - to be seen in the “links” section of this site and in the “recent links” section on the homepage.