Kudos.... Ben Bret Nebel
-----Original Message----- From: Robert Garcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Some Good Work and A Few Good Men (geeks) The unnamed programmer is Ben Johansen, he said he didn't mind being named. Anyway, he and Lockdata did a great job. -- Robert Garcia President - BigHead Technology VP Application Development - eventpix.com 13653 West Park Dr Magalia, Ca 95954 ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/ On Apr 18, 2006, at 2:02 AM, Robert Garcia wrote: > Just a quick note, we have been working for some time on some major > upgrades to our eventpix.com service. One of the new features, was > an updated guest image viewer designed in flash. I have had the > design in my head for 2 years, but just couldn't get it on my > plate, too much other stuff. So made a detailed spec, and sketches > and looked to farm out the flash programming. I built a webservice > framework, and planned on the flash UI being completely data driven > by this framework. Lockdata was contracted for the flash > programming, and an unnamed programmer, from this list was hired to > take my webservice framework, and build all the webservices > necessary for the flash UI. This programmer is unnamed, only cuz I > don't know if he wants me to tell people he is working for us. The > flash UI beat my expectations, and it is now live, serving millions > of images a day. > > You can check it out at http://www.eventpix.com/guest/ , just click > the view demo event. Be sure to try the slide show, and zoom loupe > tool. It also provides sepia and black and white images on the fly, > and many other cool features. It was a real team effort, and was a > tough transition for me to give over large projects and just manage > them, not DO them. > > The Unnamed programmer, who is welcome to name himself, did such a > great job, he has been kept on to rebuild our entire lab module as > an ajax, webservice driven service, and it works great, although > you can't see it, only for member photographers. And unless he > chooses to move on, will probably be loaded with work from us for > years to come. > > All that to say, great work by lockdata and this programmer, and a > segway into saying, we need more help. > > I am looking for 2 more programmers, to start over next month or > so. Please send in your resume to me privately, with your core > competencies, and experience. I am ESPECIALLY looking for witango > programmers with great PHP experience. We are moving all of our > apps, big ones first, to PHP/MYSQL. We have already made the mysql > leap. > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > > Robert Garcia > President - BigHead Technology > VP Application Development - eventpix.com > 13653 West Park Dr > Magalia, Ca 95954 > ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/ > > ______________________________________________________________________ > __ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
