Welcome to 2008! The year where I officially acknowledge that the 2000’s are nearly over. The winter weather here in Washington, DC is the new status quo — balmy days and April showers. After having a great holiday season, I’m enjoying being back to work.
Already this month, I wrapped up a large front-end HTML/CSS/JavaScript page build project for Voice of America News with Digital Division. The project was very challenging, and involved developing web templates that will work in more than 40 languages, including languages that read right-to-left like Farsi, and targeted browsers as old is Internet Explorer 5.5 (released in 2000) for older computers in the developing world. This project had been ongoing since at least summer of 2007, and was a coordinated effort between me (the technical lead and project manager), two other web coders, quality assurance testers, and VOA’s in-house design team. I learned a lot from the project, and I’m happy with the results, too! When the full website launches this year, I’ll be sure to post about it.
I also started a new Fab Apps strategic web redesign project for a faith-based social justice and environmentalist group, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation Office. This group lobbies for many important global issues here in DC and elsewhere, and works particularly on affordable heath care, international debt relief, climate change, and others. We will be creating a more effective, friendly, and easily-updated website over the next two months.
In addition to this and other client work, I’m still working on creating software-as-service web applications. The pace on this stuff is admittedly slow, because it’s self-funded by my client work. I look forward to saying more about this publicly within another month, and hope to speed up the overall development time on these projects as they gain momentum this year.
Writing this post, I’m reminded that I also need to update my outdated resume and portfolio. Stay tuned!