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About Me

I'm Tyler Dillerstone, a software developer based in Austin, TX. I am a software engineer at HomeAway.com.

I focus on a variety of front-end languages, BackboneJS and requireJS have been my most recent obsessions. I am comfortable working on JavaSpring and Ruby on Rails systems, however I do shine when it comes to client side development.

On the side of HomeAway I also have a web development business, Serious Business Web Design. Outside of the web world I practice judo at Kokoro Judo, Austin TX and University of Texas.

What is TehTooya?

People often ask, "What is TehTooya?" and, "Where did it come from?"

I am embarressed to admit this, but the name "Tooya" came from an anime I watched as a Middle Schooler. One day I chose to turn it into my forum/gaming handle, and the alias just stuck.

Today, "TehTooya" is my online identity. It may not appear as professional as "tyler.dillerstone", but, I find that the uniqueness does a pretty good job showing the search engines who I am.

Previous Site Designs
2011: Design made using Twitter Bootstrap and SmartyPHP templates.
2009: Wordpress blog made with vanilla css/jquery.
2006: My first personal homepage, this page had a background image that was created using PHP. Fun project, but a pain to maintain.
Projects
  • Pokemon Checklist Github
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    "This backbonejs webapp was built to provide a single page that lets trainers check off caught pokemon and provide information on where they can find remaining pokemon.
  • Google + Widget Github
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    This is my first public project. I searched for a while and could not find something that both showed the data I thought was important *and* more importantly, looked clean. So, I decided to roll my own project and make it myself :). I wanted to make something that was extremely simple to upload, but can be customized to tailor whoever uses it.