mrwalker
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What's Happening at Random Sequence?
It’s been awfully quiet on the journal front for a while! Here’s what’s been going on in the past 18 months:
Leaving Line
I had a good run working with Line for nine months, starting with an update to The Drum as a freelance contractor, then six months (almost) full time until September 2008. During that time I worked on a complete re-vamp of Welcome to Scotland, and on an industry accreditation app for The Golf Environment Organization.
All were great opportunities to work on web applications of greater complexity than I’ve looked at before. Working with a team of experienced designers brings out a richness of design which I’m proud to have been part of.
Leaving Edinburgh
In May 2008, shortly after getting married, my wife & I gave up the nightlife of central Edinburgh for the calm & kitchen gardening opportunities of rural Perthshire. Initially as an experiment, which has proved a success. I’m still back in Edinburgh most weeks to meet with clients and occasionally to catch up with all at the Edinburgh Coffee Morning.
Outside Line
To the confusion of everybody, I left Line to work with Outside Line, a London based agency with an impressive client list. I joined Outside Line as their iPhone App developer. There I worked on branded apps for Grazia, Cravendale Milk (App store link), We Will Rock You (App store link) and Queen’s Absolute Greatest Hits (App store link).
I left Outside Line in September 2009, but continue to work on new iPhone apps for their clients.
Designer Lights
During my tenure at both Line and Outside Line, I continued to work part time on designer-lights.com, a website selling designer lights from high-profile designers.
In the past 18 months, designer-lights.com has been gently massaged into a very successful business - now one of the largest retailers of its kind in Europe. We’re currently working on fully automating the stock system, and a redesign of the public site.
Completed Websites
You may have noticed from the Websites section a couple of other new sites. An blog & online shop for Firth Cycles (“A great little bike shop on a great big hill.”) and a portfolio site for Edinburgh architects 7N.
New Projects
I’m currently working with Tim Bremner of Bremner Design on new websites for Strange Cargo (a company specialising in public arts projects), on a new website for Edinburgh based Lighting Design Partnership International, on a new website & online shop for Dirt School Mountain Bike Coaching. All are nearing the end of their development. You should hear more about those soon.
Mac Apps
Our Mac desktop app Sticky Notes was featured as part of the 2009 MacHeist promotion. More recently, after a very long beta period, we’re proud to announce the release of Sticky Notes 1.5.0 final.
iPhone Apps
Most excitingly, I’m about ready to launch my first independent, commercial iPhone application. I’m going to need all of the help I can get making this a success. I will be telling everyone about this shortly!
Twitter
I’ve had a list of my recent twitter posts on the left there for some time (“Right Now”), but in case you missed it, you can keep up with my micro-activies by following me on Twitter (I’m not that chatty though!).
16 Mar 2010
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Cuil
I’m impressed with Cuil so far, Iike the 2 or 3 column search results. I’d especially like to know where they found the image to go with the Random Sequence Search - it’s beautiful!
28 Jul 2008
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Freelancing, Line & The Drum
As of January 2008, I’ve been spending most of my time building websites with the good people at Line.
Over the last few of years I’ve completed a couple of smaller freelance projects with Line and largely enjoyed the experience. I’m pleased to announce that I’ve accepted a position as an ‘almost full-time’ in-house developer.
This means that whilst I still have part of the week to devote to freelance work (most notably designer-lights.com), I’m not looking for any new projects until the ones I have in the pipeline are completed.
Whilst 2007 was a successful year for Random Sequence and I’m very pleased with some of the projects completed, the experience of working with a larger team on bigger projects is invaluable. Not to mention the regular salary…
The first live project I’ve worked on at Line is a new site for the web, media & marketing magazine, The Drum. Working on a project of this scale is new to me, and working with a designer, front-end developer and having the full support of a room full of other developers certainly is.
12 Mar 2008
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Highlights from 2007
02 Jan 2008
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Edinburgh Coffee Morning Facebook Discussion
17 Aug 2007
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LaunchBar 4.3
04 Aug 2007
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New & Improved Random Sequence - Now With Tags
09 Jul 2007
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Apple Releases Safari 3.0 Beta
12 Jun 2007
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Finally, The All New Apple.com
11 Jun 2007
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Our Take on Search Engine Optimisation
04 Apr 2007
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Edinburgh Coffee Morning
23 Mar 2007
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XML RPC & Metaweblog API
15 Mar 2007
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Creative Commons Licences
05 Mar 2007
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BarCamp Scotland
03 Mar 2007
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Breakfast With Web People
23 Feb 2007
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Sticky Notes Update - Universal Binary
16 Feb 2007
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Business Cards
05 Feb 2007
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Edinburgh Webites Coffee Morning
19 Jan 2007
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New Office - 45 Moray Place, Edinburgh
08 Jan 2007