Darren Stuart's random stuff

a look at 2008

well as 2009 is under way I wanted to post something about what I did in 2008.

Here it is.

Projects that I completed for fun:

http://justaddme.com - a social widget

http://crowdstatus.com - a place to group twitter people

songs and me - a twitter like application for posting what your current fav song is. I decided that once it was up that I was not in love with it so pulled it.

http://diystartupnews.com - converted a wordpress blog to a user generated news source for startup related news.

I also setup a couple of other blogs for friends and really enjoyed working in wordpress 2.7

Professional work in 2008:

Stuartmedia - my web development company

Nokia - 6 months working on Comes With Music

brayleino - contracting web dev work

Skills I learnt:

ActionScript 3 (flex)

Siverlight 2

.net MVC

Cocoa/Obj-C

jquery

So what for 2009:

hopefully a lot more releases than I managed this year. I have updated versions of most of my projects that need to be released.

Crowdstatus is changing a lot, the new version has more sources not just twitter, it has new widgets and also a ton of stuff I am not ready to discuss in public just yet.

Justaddme is also due a massive update, I have most of it done but I have decided to throw it all a way and take a day to code it from scratch. There are some really good new widgets in the new version and hopefully a way to earning money from it.

I have a couple of adobe AIR based apps in the works too so when I get some time I will apply some polish and release em.

As I spent 08 playing with mobiles and html on them I have decided that 09 I will spend more time doing applications. iphone games and andriod games are in the works with  other talented folks.

Along with all these things mentioned I am actually working on other stuff I hope to release shortly. I am addicted to twitter at the moment so they are twitter themed.

Damn!

I completely forgot that I turned on twitter in tumblr. What a pain, I wish I hadn’t as there is no easy way to delete them all.

Anyway I have a new design for darrenstuart.com and I think I am going to move back to a wordpress blog and have this tumblr as a place for stuff that does not belong on my blog.

The new blog will use a grid based design with some sprinkles of jquery to make it a little more interesting.

stay tuned.