Monthly Archives: April 2007

Oh Yes! Oh yes it can!!! (He says, giggling like a school girl)

Enter Better Gmail. I’ve been trying to stay current on my lifehacker reading and saw Better Gmail mentioned.

"Better Gmail? What’s this? Can Gmail get any better? surely not! What’s next, a Chupalacabra moving in next door?"

Low and Behold, Better Gmail is indeed Gmail, better.

It’s a combination of GreaseMonkey scripts as I understand it, packaged into a nice little wrapper. I love the floating Signatures, love the saved searches, love the attachment reminder and the attachment icon (This one really. I often end up "looking for that PDF so and so sent me")

It’s a great addition to Gmail, which is my primary email client. All my work (Red Omega) email goes through my gmail account, as do the various emails we use for 360Conferences work. Better Gmail is a must have firefox add on

As part of my duties at work is to start bringing the rest of the team up to speed on Flex (blind leading the blind? nah)

It was supposed to be today, but the brainiac who set up the meeting forgot and went to lunch… yeah in case you weren’t sure, I’m the brainiac.

So we rescheduled for tomorrow. I’ll be there!

I’m thinking for day one we’ll cover the basics we covered at 360|Flex San Jose. Covering some basics of FlexBuilder, then some basics of containers. Gotta start somewhere and cantainers are about as basic as you can get, I think.

I’m excited to get started, the more exposure I can get in front of people, the better. (I say that now, safely on my couch, watching Mythbusters).  

I was gonna wait to install Apollo until Beta 1. Alphas are… well, just too alpha for me. Then Danial released his twittercamp app. Which sadly I never got to see in person, but the photos were enough for me. So Off I went, back to labs to get all the goods.

I tweaked the graphics for TwitterCamp for use at 360|Flex Seattle. I think the idea of the running twitter board is great, and really want to have a screen or two around 360|Flex Seattle.

I also built my obligatory "Hello World" app.

I must say, despite a few hiccups, which I think some reading on ApolloCoders will probably solve, I’m  impressed. Granted I knew I’d like Apollo from the moment I heard about it, but rolling my own, it’s as cool as I expected.

Here’s to many happy hours Apollo’ing.

Working with Me and Tom on 360Conferences? Damn straight it is!!

I’m proud to announce that Ryan Stewart, yes the famous one, is joining Tom and I as partner in 360Conferences, the company we founded to do what we love, produce conferences like 360|Flex

We’re incredibly thrilled to have Ryan on the team, not only does he share our ideas on community, and conferences, he’s just a damn cool guy and those are in short supply. I know I’ve counted, it took a while, but i did it. 134,943 world wide. That’s not a lot.

Tom and I have some seriously huge plans for the conference space and Ryan is the perfect man to help us make those plans a reality.

Welcome Ryan.