About John P.

John’s Favorite Quote

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly.

Specialization is for insects.

—Robert A. Heinlein from The Notebook of Lazarus Long

Ok, Who’s This John P. Character?

Technical Contributions

John P. is the founder of HTMLHelp.com, and was an early contributor to the development of HTML and CSS (the code that makes the Web run). HTMLHelp.com was eventually recognized by the W3C with placment in the CSS Hall of Fame upon the 10 year anniversary, for those early contributions.

John is also the CEO of Woopra, host of the popular Wealth Nation podcast, former Chief Marketing Officer for Layered Tech, and former Vice President for SAVVIS Communications.

Speaking, Teaching, and More

In addition to his technical contributions, John frequently presents at, and also organizes, Web authoring conferences such as OpenCamp, WordCamp Dallas 2008, and WordCamp Dallas 2009. He is also likely the most prolific WordCamp videographer on the planet.

In the “real world”, John has volunteered with the local community of Frisco, TX by serving on the Citizen’s Bond committee in 2006, sitting on the Visual Arts Guild of Frisco’s Board of Directors, and acting as Secretary of the City of Frisco’s Public Art Board.

In all of his spare time he also happens to be a classically trained bladesmith, welder, Direct Metal Artist, chef, and world traveler. Oh, and he runs this little blog.

So What’s this Site All About Anyway?

John P’s mission for One Man’s Blog is simple: To educate, enlighten and entertain. And based on the stats, we’re doing quite a lot of that around here! On any given month OMB receives hundreds of thousands of unique visitors and around half a million page views:

One Man’s Blog is ranked by Alexa in the top 22,000 most visited sites on the internet (top 8,200 in the US) and receives more traffic than even popular magazine websites such as Strategy+Business, Architect Magazine, Smart Computing and Harper’s Magazine. In fact, OMB routinely generates approximately 30% the reach of Inc magazine’s website. (Not bad for “One Man”!)