About

Kyle Barrow is a web developer from New Zealand living in Tokyo, Japan.

I first seriously dabbled in mobile web development back in 2000, got addicted to all things mobile and have been involved in the mobile web in some form or other ever since.

I can usually be found somewhere in Shibuya and on Twitter.

"Puku" is a common New Zealand expression and means belly or stomach in Maori. "Pukupi" is an interesting Japanese kana combination (プクピ) with no meaning whatsoever but scores well on my Mobile Domainatron with no modal changes or repeat keys.

Behind the scenes

This blog is hand rolled with Apache, PHP, MySQL and JQuery. Site architecture is laid out with OmniGraffle Professional before doing the bulk of the visual design in real markup with Illustrator, Photoshop and Pixelmator providing any additional pixel massaging.

All text is lovingly hand coded in Coda and CSSEdit under the watchful eye of Cornerstone version control. BrowserLab and Parallels handle any cross platform testing before publishing to a Rackspace cloud server.