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Looking Forward, Looking Back

It’s been an interesting year. More so than normal years. It’s also the end of a decade, so I’ve got some thoughts on that too. Fair warning. This is a longy.

Decade first:

in 2000 I worked for a company that was basically an IT Staffing firm that decided to get into software. I worked internally on a web app that would (in their terms) revolutionize staffing. I bailed, they failed, it was 2000, that happened a lot to a lot of people and companies.

I spent most of the 2000′s as a programmer, first doing ColdFusion, then moving to Flex. It never occurred to me to try out M$ tools, or any other. I liked Macromedia (Now Adobe) offerings and stuck with them.

Denver Come quash Flex SDK Bugs!

EffectiveUI is hosting a group of people to get together and quash bugs with Adobe. Adobe is hosting the official effort in Seattle, and opening a connect room for developers all over to participate!

When you register make sure to sign up on the Bug Quash site to get the instructions on setting your computer up for SDK Development.

Hung out with 20 of Colorado’s most innovative companies yesterday.

I was at DEMOgala ’08 ALL day yesterday. It was fun. Tiring but fun. It’s funny how I can do a 3-4 conference, set it up all that, and not be as beat as setting up a single booth, LOL. Man New respect for expo sponsors! Our booth was pretty sweet! Check out my write [...]

EffectiveUI Does Android change the game for Apple?

With Tmobile announcing the G1 yesterday, and Android SDK 1 hitting the streets as well. I’m wondering what Android means to Apple. I’ll admit I wasn’t onboard with Android, and am still not sold, but I have to admit, watching the video, and reading some of the live blogs from the event yesterday, the G1 [...]

setting up WordPress on a mac, easy minus one lame small gotcha

I’m installing Word press locally on my work laptop so I have a test bed for something bigger that I’m doing. I found an old OS X 10.4.x blog post guide, which was really helpful, until it got to connecting Word Press to mySQL. Then I lost all sense of self, and slowly went insane, [...]

EffectiveUI R&D Project: Surface Music

Now that the cat is out of the bag, it’s time to show off a cool R&D Project we’re working on! Jordan Snyder and Drew McLean are working on a cool Surface music synth app, that interacts with objects on the surface. By using the object tags, provided by Microsoft, you can place something on [...]

Messed up link to my EUI R&D Post

Prepping posts for future release seems to be causing me some trouble in the latest blogCFC. Working on that problem, but in the mean time, the actual link to my post is this Sorry for the confusion.

EffectiveUI R&D Project, Android Comic reader

I had no idea people were reading comics online! I knew Marvel had their eComic thing going on for the last year or so, but didn’t think anyone was using it. Or cared. Who knew that there was another alternative, that’s existed for who knows how long, the CBZ and the CBR. Essentially they’re zip [...]

EffectiveUI Finalist for CSIA DEMOgala

UPDATE (9/16): We just found out, we’re in. w00t! We found out last night that we’re a finalist for CSIA DEMOgala 2008! Out of 160 company’s, 25 have been selected as finalists. One of which is us! We showed them some still under development stuff, that we’re very proud of.Out of those 25, 20 will [...]

Patrick Hansen, the undiscovered EUI blogger

Patrick Hansen, User Experience Designer, has a blog that isn’t on the existing EUI blog list. According to Juan and Andy Patrick is the undisputed ‘Grill Ninja’, “Making the best burgers EVER” I’ve yet to enjoy Patrick’s burgers, but I have been able to enjoy his blog. The default channel, is ‘design’, but take a [...]

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