Cal Henderson

Cal Henderson

Cal Henderson (born Callum James Henderson-Begg on January 17 1981) is a British computer programmer and author based in San Francisco. He was educated at Sharnbrook Upper School and Community College.

He's best known for co-owning and developing the online creative community B3ta [cite web| url =http://www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/features/2003/08/rob_manuel/rob_manuel.shtml|title= Interview with B3ta co-founder Rob Manuel|date=2005-08|accessdate=2007-06-12|publisher= BBC] with Denise Wilton and Rob Manuel; being the chief software architect for the photo-sharing application Flickr [cite web| url =http://flickr.com/about/|title= About Flickr|publisher=Flickr|accessdate =2007-06-12] (originally working for Ludicorp [cite web| title =Ludicorp staff |url = http://ludicorp.com/the_team.php| accessdate=2007-06-12|publisher = Ludicorp] and then Yahoo) and writing the book Building Scalable Web Sites [cite web| title =O'Reilly catalog - Building Scalable Web Sites |url = http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/web2apps/| accessdate=2007-06-12|publisher = O'Reilly Media] for O'Reilly Media. He's also worked for EMAP [cite web| title =O'Reilly catalog - Building Scalable Web Sites |url = http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/web2apps/| accessdate=2007-06-12|publisher = O'Reilly Media] and is responsible for writing City Creator [cite web| title= City Creator - Yahoo! picks for September 16, 2003|url = http://picks.yahoo.com/picks/i/20030916.html|publisher = Yahoo!|accessdate = 2007-06-12] among many other websites, services and desktop applications.

He is color blind, and has worked on applications to make the web more accessible to the color blind. [ [http://www.iamcal.com/toys/colors/ Color Vision - by Cal Henderson ] ]

External links

* [http://www.iamcal.com Personal website]
* [http://www.b3ta.com b3ta]
* [http://www.flickr.com Flickr]
* [http://www.citycreator.com/ City Creator]
* [http://www.webuser.co.uk/carsonworkshops/CalHenderson.mp3 2006 Future of Web Apps Talk]

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