Hey everybody,
It looks like it’s official: I’m FINALLY moving my blog over to my company’s blog: http://www.proace.com/blog/
I’ll leave this one up for old time sake, but I’d like to move more towards a professional and very technical blog so the days of “creative writing” are definitely gone (for now at least).
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At some point, you realize that you’re not going to launch with something that meets all of your expectations. So you compromise, prioritize, and make sure that the features you do launch with at least meet your expectations. If you’re lucky, you’ll have the time to exceed those expectations and really be proud of something. Incidentally, I’ve launched my site and I was lucky enough to exceed a few of my expectations.
If you’re reading this from your RSS reader, please drop on by my new site and do a little bit of exploring. Whether you’re a new reader or a loyal addict of my ramblings, you’re going to find new content all across the board.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope to hear from you.
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It seems like the only time I update my blog lately is to tell everybody that I’m too busy to actually make a real update…nevertheless, I’m doing it again. After this week all of the projects should be in development mode so the deadlines will be a lot more manageable.
Anyway, I thought I would give an update and let people know that I’m still alive.
Hey everyone,
I had a little accident with my phone and I’ve lost all of my contacts.
Please send me a text (or call) with your name/number so I can re-add you!
Love to all,
Josh
I’m keeping this post pretty short (it’s not becoming a habit, I promise). The project that I’m currently working on is reaching a ramp-up point and will require a lot more of my attention this week specifically.
How about YOU leave ME updates as comments for once? I’d love to know what’s happening with everyone that keeps up with me.
The long awaited announcement I’m sure: I’m becoming an active technical blogger. Don’t worry, I won’t be doing it here. I’ll effectively be doubling the amount of time I don’t have to devote to blogging. I’ll continue this one just as it is and will be talking about my other life here:
http://blogs.rev-net.com/jmarnold
For you geeks out there, please stop by! Meanwhile, check back tonight for an update on my personal life.
Most of you know that I’m quite the workaholic. I enjoy spending my time in front of a computer when it involves learning something new, pushing the envelope, and working on a project that I genuinely find interesting. You must also know that before this project, I’ve never had the privilege of working on a project like this for work. Instead, I would find projects to work on with friends outside of work that would engage me. So what happens when my job is to work on a project that I find interesting?
In short: I disappear for weeks at a time.
It’s been a rough past few weeks. That’s not to say that I haven’t enjoyed every minute of this experience, but the overall fact remains that this immediate switch has taken its toll on me. It’s been a true test of my abilities to see this project come together — and we’re still only roughly 70% complete. If you asked me what I expected to be doing when I first started here, I would have never guessed I’d be managing and leading the development of a project from scratch.
I’ve expanded my knowledge of so much these past few weeks and I have every intention of sharing what I have learned. I’m in the process of moving http://blogs.rev-net.com over to the server hosting this blog, and I will begin my technical blog at http://blogs.rev-net.com/jmarnold (along with Dave’s at http://blogs.rev-net.com/ddewinter).
In the meantime, if you haven’t heard from me too much in the past month or so it’s not that I don’t love you 
. I promise, I’m trying to get into the habit of allocating at least half an hour to writing everyday.
I’ll be back soon!
So, earlier this year, my friend Jason had a brilliant idea. There was tons of hype in the development community around Google’s android platform. Being the genius mastermind that Jason is, he began working on an idea to combine the aspects social networking, location-based services, and his love for mobile development. Not long after some brainstorming sessions, I found myself opening up Eclipse and working with him to develop and consume our REST service.
There were long days and there were tons of hours thrown into this project. Not only were we staring at a rough deadline with only two developers (that have full-time jobs), I moved to Austin in the middle of it! It’s also worth noting that when it comes to location-based services, EVERYBODY wants in. We saw competing projects popping up every single day. Despite the competition, we rest assured that our core idea was solid and more suitable for the general public than the services being developed. We kept moving forward.
We didn’t quite finish everything that we hoped to accomplish in time but we still made a LOT of progress and turned it in time. I don’t know what kind of competition we’re up against but I guarantee you, we’ll give them a run for their money .
I’ve rediscovered my love of ATB this week. Depending on my mood, I find that particular genres of music can be horribly distracting for me. I either spend too much time focusing on the lyrics or I get wrapped up in some nostalgic moment as I reminisce over the first time I heard the song. When I’m listening to ATB, there’s barely anything on my mind save for the task at hand. I’ve seen a spike in my productivity at work since I transitioned back to trance/house for work music.
My life has changed so drastically this year that it’s hard to keep up. That’s not a complaint by any means. In fact, this is the first time I’ve been truly happy with my position since Neumont. I’ve been given an unexpected amount of authority on this project and while it’s certainly intimidating, I am loving every second of it. Contracts are still being worked out but I hope to be able to give some information about it before our launch date. Either way, I’ll post the live address on June 1st for all to see.
I have some inspiration today to write something creative so please forgive this random post. I thought I’d get some brief updates in before I get some work done today. I’ll be writing something more interesting sometime tonight.
This is the first post via my Blackberry after messing with the mobile poster a bit. I have tags working and all that so now I can send updates from anywhere .
Should make my upcoming Austin roadtrip nice and fun ^_^.