I took the survey, radness!
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on the drawing board…
so my saturday was consumed by construction of a (nearly finished) wiimote whiteboard (wiimoteproject.com/).com) infrared light pen. i’m pretty much a soldering rookie, so i’ll face that monster later this week. i must drilling a highlighter and managing to install the ir bulb was quite a feat for me, so upon completion it’ll be experience points either way.
if i another rap song with little wayne’s squirrelly stupid voice in it, i swear i’ll jump. off a building. settle down with sounding ridiculous guy.
the new gig is rad. 2 weeks deep, i think its about to get bizzy up in here. bring on the schedule, drza awaits.
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Tar-boss, The Park Group, Diggidy-Deeee-Nizzla and The Capital Ale House
An action-packed, very eventful weekend… I think I’ve just now recovered enough to attempt the journaling of it, in usual mediocre fashion.
Travis is off to the big city, whooooo hoooo! Brooklyn Stand Up! etc. etc. He, now alongside the other Symbol Force nerds set off to take over the Rails-powered new mediaverse, starting with a monster client… I’m not sure of disclosure agreements and things, so I’ll just say a pretty dang high-traffic, high-volume paparazzi upload hangout.. Best of luck homies, I’m certain you boys will rep it proper.
On Friday I officially accepted my position as Interactive Media Producer (at least I think that’s my title) - I think the most accurate description of this job is my dream job; or as close possible, considering my geographic family restrictions to the Richmond, Virginia area - which is somehow, the second time around, growing on me again. I didn’t think this incredible of a new media job opportunity would’ve surfaced in the area without being a little closer to DC/Northern Virginia. Again, a bit more credit to the area. So here goes nothin’. I’m stoked, and I don’t surf; therefore, try to avoid the usage of that word. However, to follow - I’m gonna go nuts trying to start the moving process in midst of all this jazz, posting up in RVA until I live anywhere that’s mine. And forget not this - I know myself pretty well, and I know I’m going to become completely absorbed in my new job. I’ll be spearheading the addition of interactive media offerings (rich media, user experience, interactive design structures) to this phenomenal HD production/post-production group in an effort to extend the capabilities of a true “interactive agency.” Good stuff, eh? 
To punctuate my super action hero weekend… A surprise Richmond visit from who other than… THE DEAN! Here were the high points…
- Oaked Arrogant Bastard (via the only keg in the state of Virginia)
- Tommyknocker Black Powder Stout
- Southampton Publik House IPA
- An outstanding bartender, with a phenomenal classic knowledge of GI Joe characters (more so Cobra than the Joes - but I’ll take it from my pint pusher)
- Dean’s homey telling me that he shoots in the 80s then realistically believing that I would play golf in their foursome… ROFLCOPTER, mate. That’s just not how I roll.
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Alpha Release of MODx 0.9.7!!
Rebranding looks proper! Big up boys… I’ll post more than this => http://wtf.modxcms.com/ when I get a minute to install… Drew = EXCITED ABOUT 0.9.7!
Big up MODx, and Uncle T
Last week was a good one, and I thought it seemed like an appropriate time to list an update of stuff I’ve been working on lately, almost entirely developed within the MODx PHP/AJAX framework..
http://www.sunrealtyobx.com/ (SEO stat: 2nd natural listing for Google search phrase Outer Banks real estate)
OB Homebuilders Find A Builder page.. purty fun Alphabet character select Moo Switcher
SJE Partners (Tricia, header, baseball, wha?)
Creative Touch Tile and Sarisand Tile
And the sneak attack (with the heavy-loaded assistance of Tar-bis =] ) site that’s gonna be the sexiest lil’ thang yet is well underway. I’ll throw that up when she goes live…
Yellow Icon lost their domain?
that would be an…. oops. anyone know where they’ve relocated?
Fast Guy, Tight Pants, Coffee Movie, AND…
the unfortunately underappreciated RAD HAIRCUT.
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Click Here. Really Necessary.
I’ve been waiting for somebody to take enough meds, and/or care enough about the guts and details of their job or life’s purpose or whatever the funk to address the issue of whether or not a button or hyperlink actually needs to include the instructions “Click here to” ________ .
Thus, the article exists, and is quite pleasing -> http://www.copyblogger.com/click-here/
Another Dojo Post - Now with Dirty Ajax Article Titles!
The plot thickens, and the article title wins the superlative for “wittiest.” Rad.
http://ajaxian.com/archives/dojo-the-cigarette-after-the
The Plot Thickens… The Release of Dojo 1.0
Now I have yet another layer of digging to do before never coming to a decision of which JavaScript lib/toolkit to use. Dojo 1.0’s official release is from the look of things pretty dang tempting. http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2007/11/05/announcing-dojo-10/
And the winner is… Congratualations MODx
MODx wins “Most Promising Open Source CMS” in the Packt Publishing CMS Awards. Big up MODx squadron for pushing votes and properly representing our thriving community.
MooTools under the gun…
Eek, I read Ajaxian and use the hell out of MooTools on a daily basis…
http://ajaxian.com/archives/moo-on-us-survey-update#comments
