The Depressed Press

The Depressed Press is the personal site of Jim Davis, a Production Support Manager with a fortune 50 financial services company. I started doing web application development and human factors work. Since then I've, like many enterprise developers, transitioned regularly to different projects and teams and had exposure to many technologies and languages. In recent years I've been part of the enterprise Production Support team managing emergency response to production outages and problems.

I was raised in upstate and Western New York. My wife and I lived in Boston for 15 years and, a few years ago, moved to Northeastern Pennsylvania with our two kids. I probably spend too much time working but I also find the time to spend too much time on the PlayStation, reading comics and learning basic woodworking.

Updates

• The After Hours section has been uploaded with a colection of writing and reviews I've done over the years. I justed want to start collecting things into a single place.
• I've added a Blog. I hope to start capturing some of my experiences on the job and impart some cautionary advice.
• The Depressed Press is changing focus: with a house, kids and a demanding job I've absolutely no time for independent consulting now. So I've streamlined the site into just my personal stuff. No more consulting, no more stumping for weekend work.
• The JavaScript Development section has several new updates:
  • DP_PanelManager Component. An object which normalizes positioning, sizing, opacity, visibility and event handling of HTML elements across browsers.
  • DP_HTTPRequestPool Component. Simply AJAX application with this easy to use HTTP request manager.
  • DP_DateExtensions Library. Format dates and times and add JavaScript compatibility with ISO 8601 in one simple extension.
  • DP_Debug JavaScript Debugging Libraries. If you've ever wanted a tool like CFDUMP for JavaScript this is for you!

What's with the Name "Depressed Press"?

Not much really. It's just a fun play on words that doesn't really mean anything. We're not particularly or overly sad. In fact we're not really a "press" either. Essentially the name is a bundle of cruel lies.