I’m writing this using the brand new wordpress app for my new iPhone 3g. Where would I be without this thing!!
By the way… Tap Tap Revenge is a truly great game for the iPhone. And this is my current best.
I haven’t said much about my current job here, but I’m excited about what I’m doing so I thought I would drop some info. At present (and hopefully for the distant future because I enjoy it that much), I’m working for a small software company in State College, PA called Good Steward Software. Our primary function is creating software for medium to large businesses and government entities to track energy usage and expenditures. I know that may not sound like much fun, but when your company is the best at what they do, trust me… it’s fun. Because of our position in the market, we get to push the envelope a bit and run with ideas instead of just maintaining the status quo. That’s where I come in.
I was originally hired here to do implementations of EnergyCAP, our main product. But when I mentioned that I’d like to get involved with future web app development, I got my wish. For the past six months or so, I’ve been managing design and development of a product that will be released in September. I’m excited about it because it’s all I’ve done for six months, and it’s going to be fun to see what people think.
I can’t go into much, but I’ll say this. This product will allow home and small business owners the opportunity to track energy bills. With this information they can answer questions like:
And on top of all this, it’s going to look great (I like to think of it as the GQ of Energy management), and free for end users.
Sounds good, huh? More soon…
As I am writing this post, I am sitting in the auditorium of the EBay Town Hall in San Jose, California. No, I’m not here to try to get my money back on a scam auction I was involved in… (another story, for another time!), I’m here for 360Flex. For the last 3 days, Ryan B. and I have seen some very cool new technology at work. It’s called Flex, which isn’t really new, since it’s at 2.0, but it’s becoming evident that as a web app developer, it opens a lot of doors to some things that were either not possible or very painful to do before.
Anyway, we’ve seen some of the development team from Adobe show off some of the things that they have done, and it’s quite amazing. Here’s a sample. So I’m seeing some of this stuff and realizing that this could completely redo some of the things that I do. In the hotel last night, I slapped together a Flex front end to a Rails back end web services… and I was able to do it in less than an hour. And I didn’t even know what I was doing! And just like that, I’ve got a rich front end that looks identical on any web browser out there. Super cool. I’ll probably stick a post up here in a few days that shows how to do it.
P.S. We also made a stop to a certain company store. more later.
