Apple Internship - The Offer
Apple decided to offer me an internship this summer. I’m headed to Cupertino (San Jose), California from May 24 – Aug 20. I will be doing software development for them, more specifically Adobe Flash, Java, and iPhone development for their retail point of sale division. I was interviewed a total of 5 times, once on campus, two phone interviews, and two iChat video interviews. It was quite a process.
When the official offer … Continue Reading
Tags: google, google docs, note taking, notes, notesync
NoteSync with Google docs Desktop Beta has been released today! NoteSync lets you take notes fast and sync them with your Google docs account. Keyboard shortcuts like CTR-L put your cursor in the search bar to easily search for notes or create a new note. Automatic syncing happens every minute or when you feel like it by pressing the sync button. Offline mode fully supported.
Rocketship Industrial Design
Rocketship is an industrial design studio located in the heart of Provo, UT. Rocketship has designed Provo Craft’s Cricut, Philip’s GoLite Blu, and the Jet Boil. With Beth Robertson’s designs, we were able to launch a new, clean version of their site in December 2008. Rocketship wanted many custom features.
Special Features:
Problem: Rocketship needed … Continue Reading
Aspire - Product Designer
Aspire has revolutionized the way youth sporting pictures are taken. Providing a green screen allows the players and the parents to design their own posters, shirts, and even trading cards. At Rain I was the primary Flex developer for Aspire’s product designer. The designer allows users to design custom posters, shirts, trading cards, team pictures, blankets, and other products.
After being in beta since July 2008, we released the major release of Aspire in September, 2009.
Aspire’s business model is unique. … Continue Reading
Tags: blog, church, employment, forms, google docs, lds, survey, wordpress
Serve Your Ward, Post Your Job
Serving in my church is a great way for me to volunteer my time and talents to help others. Recently my wife and I were called as the Employment Specialists in my BYU Married Ward. This past Sunday we launched a ward employment web site that helps married college students find work in the Provo / Orem area. I used Wordpress to power the site and … Continue Reading
Photo Scaled 200% inside ImageWell. 50 dpi.
Custom book builders are great rich internet applications that we’ve made at Rain. One core component of custom book builders is allowing users to upload their own photos. The most common user error is uploading and using a photo that cannot be printed at a high quality print resolution. It is our job to let the user know if the image he or she has selected for a particular ImageWell (a rectangle where a photo can be … Continue Reading
After 32 hours, 13.4 miles of running, and 2 hours of sleep, I’m back from the Wasatch Back Ragnar Relay of 2009. Thanks to Chase & Lindsey Brammer, Kellie and I were invited to join their VIP team along with Brady and Nicki Brammer. The other six teammates consisted of coworkers and friends from Rain Interactive. Hence the name of our team, “Make it Rain!”
The Ragnar is a relay race where a team of 12 people get two vans and run 188 miles divided into 36 legs from Logan … Continue Reading
Thanks to everyone that came to the Adobe Flex presentation at BYU. It turned out great. Many people learned what Flex can do and found solutions to ideas they had. Thanks to Rain Interactive for sponsoring the event with Papa Johns Pizza. Special thanks to the Web Startup Group for hosting the event. They recorded my presentation and have my slides hosted on their site.
Today I downloaded the wordpress for iPhone app and I am currently writing this post from my iPhone. I am able to upload photos from my iPhone’s photo library and make edits to existing posts. All I can say is wow and go download it yourself.
Adobe just produced Tour De Flex an AIR app that allows you to tour all of Flex’s features. Great for those who are curious about what flex can do. For developers, this tool is great because it allows you to actually see the code to produce the feature that is shown.
Adobe states that Tour De Flex has three primary features: