Three of us were lucky enough to attend the 2012 SXSW conference last week. SXSW is an annual multi-week event in Austin, Texas that’s focused on interactive technology, music, and film. We attended the interactive portion of the conference, which drew an international crowd of influential tech leaders, software and web developers, designers, and other creatives for [...]
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Josh Mar 20 Plugging In
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Josh Feb 23 How Not To Be Wrong
It was with a heavy sigh of relief (is there any other kind?) that I restarted the web-server after buttoning up the last little to-do item on my list. Building our company website was truly a labor of love, spanning many months and providing some important lessons along the way. It’s widely known in this [...]
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Josh Dec 9 Tick, tick, tick…
Our new site should be launching soon. With any luck, this weekend. (Fingers crossed) It’s been a long, arduous journey, starting more than a year ago with an all-hands company retreat where we followed a lot of the principles we’ve learned over the years about usability and hammered out a vision of what the new [...]
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Josh Jul 8 Busy
adjective Occupied, engaged, involved, employed, working, hard at work; rushed off one’s feet, hard-pressed, swamped, up to one’s neck; on the job, absorbed, engrossed, immersed, preoccupied; informal (as) busy as a bee, on the go, hard at it. At times like these, with a mountain of projects on my plate and many long hours behind [...]
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Josh Jul 1 The Most Important Programming Tool
9 out of 10 programmers agree, the power of coffee should not be underestimated. Nothing can revive a pre-holiday-weekend Friday afternoon’s flagging energy level than two or three espressos.
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Josh Jun 23 Labor of Love
After more months than I care to admit of staring at the above, we finally launched a site this morning that was a long-term project for our company and a good friend of mine, San Diego musician and jazz club owner Chuck Perrin. It was a massive undertaking due to the two primary objectives of [...]