Can you say busy? 2006 has been insane, Bluetube Productions was supposed to be a company that would eventually be my full time job, this year revenue when up by 450%.
We worked on
http://www.classicchastain.com/index3.aspx
( flash, ARP and ARPX, Fluorine, .NET, NHibernate, and MS SQL)
http://www.atlantasymphony.com
( flash, ARP and ARPX, Fluorine, .NET, NHibernate, and MS SQL)
http://www.soapboxstudios.com
(Flash, fixed an existing site)
http://www.thinkingmedia.com
(online learning, flash, ARP and ARPX)
http://www.cnn.com in association with http://www.phoenix-sr.com
Asset ingest and archive system
CAKEPHP, mysql, php 5 and AJAX.
http://www.kol.com
Flash navigation systems for Kids AOL
(flash, arp and arpx)
There are other smaller projects I've probably forgotten but its been a fantastic year. I've formed a new company Bluetube Interactive that specializes in RIA. We have 2 flash projects running now through 2007, a flex project and a requirements project (to scope the project to see the overall cost/size, its a monster).
Our biggest bottle neck has been professional actionscript programmers there is me and Lee McColl Sylvester in the UK, Lees a great developer but its challenging to manage the project from 4000 miles away :) . I'd really like to find some professional local actionscript developers in the Atlanta area, the only ones I know are Jesse Warden and I've yet to talk with Leif Wells.
I've done a lot of updates to arpx over the year but I need to clean it up and release it. I'm considering using cairngorm with flex since I'd have to re-factor a lot of arpx to run under actionscript 3 and I don't have the time right now.
2007 looks to be a huge year for us with approved projects and requests for more the calendar is getting very full. We have 2 new developers with php and .net skills who'm I'm also training in flex and actionscript 3 and I'm bringing in a new partner too who has architect skills as well as programming. We are still working very closely with Tribal Chicken and I don't think we have done a project without them due to Marks fantastic design skills as well as their ability to cover Information Architecture, I see all our projects continuing to designed by Tribal Chicken.
I'll try and be better about posting this year to share some of the things we have learned and in the meantime happy new year to you and yours.
Cheers
Grant
