Comments on: Interview with Andrew Clemente - Founder of DevLounge

By: Muzz

Muzz — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:24:55 +0000

Hey Matt,

Funny how this exact same interview popped up here 3 mins after you posted yours!

http://www.attitudedesign.co.uk/journal/interview-with-andrew-clemente-founder-of-devlounge/

By: Matt Davies

Matt Davies — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:03:57 +0000

Actualy the Fadtastic one popped up first! - I have got permission from both Andrew and Fadtastic to post this to my personal site.

By: Devlounge | Interviews - My Turn

Devlounge | Interviews - My Turn — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:16:52 +0000

[…] A little odd to be on this side of the ball, but our buddies at Fadtastic recently conducted and interview with me. We discuss a lot of different things, including the reason behind the creation of Devlounge, tips for young designers, the issue of age vs surving on the web, a few other topics. It was fun getting a chance to answer questions rather than type out my own this time around. The only downside was Andrew Faulkner (Fadtastic Admin) was recently interview for FT as well, so we couldn’t get a 1 for 1 admin interview switch. Anyways, enough talk, feel free to head over to Fadtastic to give the interview a read. […]

By: Ronalfy

Ronalfy — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 02:06:16 +0000

I liked the competition question. To be honest, I read both Devlounge and Fadtastic. I still read A List Apart. I read many design / developer blogs. I don’t consider any of them competition. If anything, the blogs compliment each other.

Now if Devlounge started writing book reviews, I would consider that to be somewhat of a “competitive” move. ;)

By: Matt Davies

Matt Davies — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:43:17 +0000

Good point Ronalfy. I think you are right - blogs do compliment each other…

By: Rachel Maxim

Rachel Maxim — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:16:19 +0000

OMG, I had no idea Andrew was so young! When I read the first paragraph I thought it was a joke…until I read on. Wow. It’s quite remarkable what he’s accomplished at 16, it can only mean great things are ahead for him. This makes me feel sooo old!
I would say to Andrew… as someone who is a few years older than you (ok 10) and didn’t go to college for long because I sort of jumped into a career, I think you have a great amount of insight into the right reasons to go to college and I encourage you to attend if you have the option. If you’ve managed to do what you’ve done so far while going through high school, certainly college is not going to slow you down!

By: AJ

AJ — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:06:15 +0000

Thanks for the comments guys & gals :)

By: Andrew Faulkner

Andrew Faulkner — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:08:05 +0000

A great insight into yourself and the DevLounge community. All the best for DL in the future.

A couple of quick questions, Andrew. Where did your passion come from? And how do you think you will you use it to shape DevLounge and astereostudio in the future?

By: AJ

AJ — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:07:48 +0000

@Andy - My passion came from the love of sketching things out. Back when I was younger, I always used to draw things, and I seemed to think I had a good idea of how to lay things out practically. Then one day I downloaded a demo of a graphics program and began fooling arojnd. It took quite some time before I actually ruened play into success, but once I did, I was into it.

In terms of shaping Devlounge, as I continue to sharpen my skills I’ll continue to make updates to Devlounge and layout changes as I see fit.