Cal Henderson
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Cal Henderson is a British computer programmer and author based in San Francisco. He was educated at Sharnbrook Upper School and Community College
Sharnbrook Upper School and Community College
Sharnbrook Upper School and Community College, commonly referred to as SUS or simply Sharnbrook, is a large, rural comprehensive upper school located in Sharnbrook, a village near Bedford in the English county of Bedfordshire...

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He's best known for co-owning and developing the online creative community B3ta
B3ta
B3ta is a high-profile British website, described as a "puerile digital arts community" by The Guardian. It was founded in 2001 by Rob Manuel, Denise Wilton and Cal Henderson....

 with Denise Wilton and Rob Manuel
Rob Manuel
Rob Manuel is the co-founder of B3ta . He is responsible for numerous quizzes and Flash animations. He also works with Joel Veitch animating videos for Tomboy Virals...

; being the chief software architect for the photo-sharing application Flickr
Flickr
Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to...

 (originally working for Ludicorp and then Yahoo) and writing the book Building Scalable Web Sites for O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and Web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics...

. He's also worked for EMAP
EMAP
Emap Limited is a British media company, specialising in the production of business-to-business magazines, and the organisation of business events and conferences...

 and is responsible for writing City Creator 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.

Cal's personal website currently describes him as Glitch
Glitch (video game)
Glitch is a browser-based massively multiplayer online game released on September 27th, 2011. Glitch centers on traveling through time in an effort to save the planet, and in order to accomplish this the player must enter into a creation myth through which they shape the future.- Gameplay :Glitch's...

Engineer.

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