Recently, I have been making it a point to write more. During the last month, life has been getting in the way of that. Regular posts will resume soon.
During February, I quit my job at Sarkissian|Mason, a New York-based interactive advertising agency with an office in Phoenix. I am now working with BitGravity, a Content Delivery Network based in San Francisco. I will continue to focus primarily on interface development in Flash.
SXSW starts next week (March 7-11). This impacts one’s schedule in several ways. First, I need to invest extra time and energy into my new job, as I will be taking a week off. Second, as someone who wants to have a technology to advocate at the conference, I have an impending deadline for my side project. Third, it’s pretty important to make sure you have travel and lodging arrangements. Oh, that reminds me…. I need to figure out how I’m getting there.
During the last month, I spent 9 days in California, drove the PCH, gave a demo on XID at Refresh Phoenix, gave a presentation on advanced Javascript (Firebug, Greasemonkey, Google Gears, Firefox extension development) at Refactor Phoenix, attended a chess meet-up, gave impromptu demonstrations of HDR photography and general photo retouching at Refocus Phoenix, had dinner in Half Moon Bay, CA with Francine Hardaway, redesigned the BrianShaler.com landing page, and much, much more.
Hah – the new landing page seems like a palce holder if you ask me ;)