This is the online home of Eric Fehse

In my professional life, I am an Interaction Designer and Web Developer at a German company that develops networked applications 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 using Qt) 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. Some time ago, I discovered Python, and found it the most elegant programming language I (happen to) know.

I began by using Python for various automation tasks at work, i.e. automatically creating localized style sheets for the chinese version of a web application, or for creating a sprite image and associated css rules out of a large number of icons.

Then I discovered 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.

Over time, I wanted to do more than just a blog. The main result is www.glosorna.de, my Swedish-German vocabulary dictionary and trainer (see some more info in the sidebar on the right).