Around mid-November, I applied for a job after seeing a post on Sam Farmer's blog. Long story short, one phone interview, one trip to D.C. and four months later, I formally accepted a position with the Interfolio team. I've now officially started in my new position and thought a blog post was deserving.

As far as time lines, I will be working from home for the rest of May and we're moving during the first week of June. We're both excited for the great opportunities that this move presents to us.

Also, I'd like to say thank you to the team that I left at Mojo Interactive. If you're looking for a Coldfusion job in the Orlando area, send me your resume and I'll pass it to the right person at Mojo Interactive.

• Interfolio
  
• Mojo Interactive

4/9 (Thursday) 6:30pm  Battle of Web Frameworks at Slingapours (map)

4/10 (Friday) 5pm Photowalking starts at CoLab Orlando (map)

4/17 (Friday) 8-11am Likemind Orlando at Drunken Monkey Coffee Bar (map)

4/18 (Saturday)9am-6pm BarCamp Orlando at Wall St Plaza (map)

4/18 (Saturday) Music After BarCamp at Wall St Plaza (map)

4/20 (Monday) 6-9pm Florida Creatives at Crooked Bayou (map)

4/22 (Wednesday) 6pm Forrester's Orlando Tweetup at Big River Grille & Brewing (map)

4/24 (Friday) 12-1pm SCRUM Lunch and Learn at CoLab Orlando (map)

4/30 (Thursday) 6-11pm Orlando Tweetup II at TBD

I hope to see you at one/all of these events. Have a geeky April!

I can't take credit for most of this list but I couldn't find it online either. Originally, the list made its way to me in an email from Gregg Pollack to the BarCamp Orlando mailing list.

I have a few more post-FOWA projects in the works and hope to have those posted by 3/20/09.

For those who don't know, FOWA stands for Future Of Web Apps. You can see more about these events at Carsonified.com's FOWA section. Now without further aideu, the top 10 things I picked up at FOWA Miami '09.

1. Your content should not be an afterthought

2. Do not blindly equate time with value

   • 2 weeks of intern work generated enough (~$1 million) to pay for the entire intern program at Fog Creek Software
   • There is a 10 to 1 productivity ratio between good programmers and the suck

3. Schedule meetings after/during lunch

   • Make them fast
   • Try to remember the last meeting that you got something done that couldn't have been done in an email or through another communication channel
   • The reason people are shocked when they leave a productive meetings is because it is not the norm

4. The browser is about to become our biggest friend

   • Canvas
   • Fast Javascript

5. Orient everything around talent

6. Have a corporate blog

   • Be as open as possible
     1. People are less and less trusting of any other communication
     2. They can now, more than ever, smell the BS
   • See blog.digg.com for a good example

7. Ignore the competition

   • Focus on the customer instead
   • I've heard this point time and time again
   • Chasing your competitors doesn't add much value to your customers.

8. Stop glorifying failure

   1. It seems only in tech and startups that failure is looked at with smiles
   2. Stop doing it. No one else does and for good reason

9. Find the by products of your product

   • Oil's byproduct is gas, rubber
   • Software's is wisdom/information, use that

10. People don't mind paying for great products

    • There are different consumers
    • People will pay if the product delivers

So thanks Neil for spurring me to care more about just "getting my job done" and being happy staying there. I'll be blogging my Python experiences here and tagging them with "python".

I figured my issue was just an isolated incident until I saw this tweet:

What a good reason to write a post. So I hope this either helps you or helps save you time in the future.

If you don't all ready, feel free to follow me on Twitter (twitter.com/jdowdle )

• Hulk (released)
• Poughkeepsie Tape
• Get Smart (6/20/08)
• Hancock (7/2/08)
• The Dark Knight (7/18/08)
• Wanted (7/27/2008)
• Tropic Thunder (8/15/08)
• Mirrors (8/15/08)
• Traitor (8/27/08)
• Babylon A.D. (8/29/08)
• Defiance (12/12/08)

I am proud to say that my new employer is Mojo Interactive.  I'm still working with Coldfusion, but have swapped in MySQL for SQL Server.  So yeah, wahoo!

Later,

-Jon

I will be going to BarCampOrlando on Sept. 23. I'd like to present on something but I can't seem to think of anything specific to present on. A few ideas that has passed through my head are

• Computer vision
• Design Patterns
• Cold Fusion something

The current list of ideas are on the BCO wiki (http://barcamp.org/BarCampOrlando)