Where Did December Go?

Holy Month...

I've been meaning to blog so freakin hard but have just been swamped beyond swamped.

The main thing that I wanted to write about was my trip to Long Beach for Pragmatic Studio's iPhone development course... but now that's a month past and a lot of other stuff's been going on.... I'll try to keep this semi-short.

So Red Five (my employer) is starting to work on a little iPhone app for a client of ours... and since neither of our engineers really knew iPhone dev, let alone objective-C, we decided it'd be a good idea to get schooled. So the first week of December, Todd and I flew out to Long Beach to do just that. It was awesome.

Long Beach is kind of a weird place, but definitely showed us a good time. There was more than enough to keep us occupied on Pine street - seafood, tapas, wings, irish bar, mai tais (Todd LOVES mai tais), etc.

The iPhone training was also really, really solid. Those pragmatic people are great teachers - and really know how to take care of developers. Soooo many snacks and refreshments. I'm really happy our company was able to send us. It was a great class. ...and now I really wish I had a bit of time to work on my own iPhone app. I've got a couple ideas and now have a bit of know-how.

After the iPhone conference Kari flew out to visit me and spend the weekend in Hollywood. LA (again) is such a weird place. It just feels like 1 giant suburb. Regardless though, we had a good time. The Standard hotel was pretty fun, plus we got to meet up with Katie, Bryndon, and Cecil.

Other than that though, I've been keeping busy helping friends/family build sites (www.marymcadams.com and www.smithsonwoodworks.com), editing all sorts of family videos and burning them to DVD, getting tattooed, shoveling snow... and most importantly spending lots of time with friends and family for the holidays.

Some pretty exciting news for me is that I was recently offered a part-time contract position for a San Francisco based web startup. It's a pretty awesome little company that wrote a crazy JS based timeline. They then have creative ways of mining for data and displaying it along special timelines. I love data collection, I love timelines, and I'm really excited to get to play with both... with some really smart people. www.dipity.com - check it out.

So yeah... Currently working on an iPhone App, Rails apps, Dipity, and various other stuff. I'm happy with this. I'm happy for the future...

    written by 28 year old Derek Brooks

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