Going(for)Broke on Post-Its

How do you organize your tasks? Are you a victim of murder by post-it-note, or do you have a white board with 10 different color dry-erase markers ready in a holster at your desk? OR - do you have a series of post-its that list, in great detail, the items that need to be added to your white board? Whatever the case, keeping your ducks in a row can be a painstaking process, one that may require several different attempts in an effort to find that which works for you.

I recently read a great article in HOW Design Magazine entitled “Let Your Creativity Blossom”. One item of particular interest to me (and now featured on a wall nearby) was to create an “Energy Line” on which I can list my current projects from those that are requiring a lot of energy to those that may be temporarily on hold (thus little energy). So far so good, but I’ll let you know what I think in another month.

For some more light reading, check out an online version of the article here.

Drupaling along

As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, we often use Drupal at Blueye for client sites. We aren’t the only ones! Universal music is using Drupal to power their new site, Nike is using Drupal for their Olympics site, and even FedEx has adopted Drupal to power their news site. That’s pretty cool! It shows just how great and powerful Drupal is.  I’m interested to see what other big name companies will adopt Drupal and what various situations they will use it for.

Open is better

Yesterday, Facebook announced that it’s developer platform would become open source. Since Blueye has been gradually becoming more involved in Facebook application development, this is interesting news for us. Developing an application for Facebook no longer means the application can only sit in Facebook world. Building for one Facebook now means porting your application over to other social networks with minimal effort.

It’s definitely nice of Facebook to finally open source its super popular development platform…but it would be even nicer if they either mirrored Open Social or integrated with it in some way. Facebook has been playing in its own sandbox for some time now and its nice of them to come out and play with the rest of us. They seem to be slowly opening the shades. Come on Facebook…open is better.

Happy Blueye Memorial Day!

How did you spend your Memorial Day weekend? Did you go out of town and spend time with the family? Did you get stuck in traffic? Were you trapped in a box? Here, at Blueye, we stand firm on thinking outside of the box. When it comes to designing and developing, we take your project out of the box, even if that means using an unconventional idea. Making sure you’re happy with the end product and having a fully functioning website is our biggest concern and that’s what makes our website design and development team a strong force in the industry.