Everything Zack

I’m a programmer, designer, and a team leader in addition to writing The One Minute Commute. I also have an official bio.

You can contact me at zack@grossbart.com or give me a call (617) 497-1232.

Zack’s Official Bio

Zack’s Professional Programmer blog
Hackito Ergo Sum

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NetIQ

I’m a Software Engineer Consultant and team leader at NetIQ. I joined SilverStream in 1998. Silverstream was purchased by Novell and Novell was purchased by NetIQ. I’ve worked on Novell Sentinel, Novell Identity Manager, Novell Compliance Management Platform, Novell Identity Manager Designer, Novell exteNd Workbench, and many more.

Web animations

I’ve been working on a series of open source web animations.

The HBO Recycling Program shows how often HBO reuses actors. Fast Company Design featured the HBO Recycling Program as the Infographic of the Day.

I wrote an animated dandelion as the sample for my article How To Create Web Animations With Paper.js on Smashing Magazine.

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JSlim

It’s your favorite JavaScript library, only faster.

JSlim is a static code analyzer and optimizer for JavaScript which removes unused code from your application and third-party libraries. JSlim makes jQuery 25% smaller.

Spiffy UI

Your GWT application need Spiffy UI. Write beautiful fast flexible secure maintainable applications with GWT and REST using the open source Spiffy UI framework. The Spiffy UI presentation shows the design philosophy, technology decisions, and implementation of a recent project.

WordPress Editorial Calendar

If you blog and schedule your posts in advance the WordPress Editorial Calendar will change your life. Drag and drop, quick edit, and view your entire blog in this easy to use intuitive interface.

The WordPress Editorial calendar has over 100,000 downloads and runs on thousands of websites including Copyblogger.com and Chris Brogan.com.

Hackito Ergo Sum

Looking for some serious techie goodness full of examples and how to articles? Check out my professional programming blog Hackito Ergo Sum.

GitHub

Many of my early and smaller projects end up on GitHub. Check out the HBO Recycling PaperJS sample, the JSlim JavaScript compiler, and many others. Start forking today.

Get The Eye

I’m a software developer and who likes making great user interfaces. I wrote 42 articles about making software feel good at Get The Eye.

MGA GoTD

I’m an avid Go player and the founder of an open source software project for organizing Go tournaments, MGA GoTD.

Other People Talking About Me

From time to time other people write about me. I’m grateful for each mention. Some of the big ones are Forbes, CNN, CIO Magazine, and IT World.

You can see all of my media coverage on my media page.

Guest Posts

I also write for many other sites like Smashing Magazine and CopyBlogger. You can see them all in my list of guest posts.

  • http://gfact.it/blog/?p=939 HBO Recycling Program | //G.Fact – Communication design

    [...] by the original visualization, an interactive version was created by Zack Grossbart that allows you to highlight either the show, or the actor, and it will display the [...]

  • http://woobler.com/blog/?p=17 woobler – “HBO Recycling Program” infographic turns interactive

    [...] Zack Grossbart, Inspired by the original infographic created an interactive version that allows the user to highlight either the actor, or the show and it will display the connections. It’s also possible to click on two shows, and the interactive version will highlight only does actors in both shows. [...]

  • http://hbowatch.com/infographic-the-hbo-recycling-program/ Infographic: The HBO Recycling Program | HBO Watch

    [...] Zack Grossbart  must be an HBO fan because he recently created an stunningly intricate infographic detailing the careers of many of your favorite HBO actors.   You’d probably already noticed HBO using the same score of actors again and again but no one has put it all together quite like this.  Take a look at a screenshot from the infographic below. [...]

  • http://www.tvqc.com/2011/10/le-programme-de-recyclage-hbo/ Le programme de recyclage HBO | TVQC

    [...] Zack Grossbart doit être un fan de HBO, car il a récemment créé une infographie étonnamment complexe détaillant la carrière de nombreux acteurs de la chaîne HBO. [...]