TechCrunch Reviews SlideSix

Thanks to the meetup last night, TechCrunch has posted a quick review of SlideSix.

I have to say, the review is pretty accurate and fair (hey, I told you, I'm a developer, not a designer!). It will be quite interesting to see what happens from here with the site. Even if nothing comes of the exposure, it has been a dream project to work on for the last year. Not many developers have the luxury of putting paid work on the back burner for a year while they pursue their dream. I feel lucky, even though it's meant many long nights and weekends writing code while may day job kept food on the table for my very supportive wife and kids. If I didn't love it and believe in the project I would have quit a long time ago (and trust me, there were many moments that I considered it).

Thanks again to John Biggs for the meetup and the writeup.

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TechCrunch/CrunchGear Meetup - The Aftermath

I had just sat down to author a blog post summarizing the TechCrunch/CrunchGear meetup that I attended last night when I received an email from Ben Blanquera, one of the super talented folks that I had a chance to meet at the event.

Turns out that Ben has already posted a pretty comprehensive summary of the event. Yes, that's me in the pic with John Biggs of CrunchGear fame :)

From what I understand Ben is a pretty influential member of the Columbus IT community, and was a real nice guy to chat with. Same goes for all the folks that I spoke with, though I wish I had more time to chat with many of them.

The summary up at CrunchGear promises some startup and product reviews later this week, so I'm crossing my fingers that SlideSix gets a bit of publicity.

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How To Repair Your DVD Player

I had been making some personal backups of my DVDs this evening when I decided to pop one in to make sure everything looked OK. In my office I have a little 26" LCD with an internal DVD player so I stuck one of the copies into the TV when a heard a very unfriendly grinding. It's widely documented that I'm not a hardware expert, but even my untrained ear told me that this was a bad noise to be coming from the player.

Sure enough, the player soon spit the disc right back out at me. I tried a few more times (yeah, like that was gonna work) to no avail when I decided I'd grab a screwdriver and take the thing apart to see if I could get lucky and fix the thing.

As I started to work on the 58 or so screws that held this amazing little player together I began to hear a familiar rattle. The kind of rattle that only the actions of a mischievous toddler can produce. Before I'd even removed the cover I already knew what to expect. Sure enough when I finally got the thing open my suspicions were confirmed:

Thankfully once the offending currency was removed and the device was reassembled it returned to it's previous working state.

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Introducing The Flex Powered SlideSix Management Console

On December 19, 2007 I wrote the first line of code for what would become SlideSix.com. Exactly one year to the day I'm proud to launch a major enhancement that I hope will help to encourage more folks to join our presentation sharing community. Here is a quick presentation that I hastily threw together to introduce the feature.

There are still a few tiny bugs and a handful of features and enhancements that I need to address, but I'm confident (hopeful) that the application is stable enough to have folks take a shot at using the console to manage their presentations, profile and groups. To check it out, login and click on the 'Management Console' link at the top of the page.

My plan is to start doing a series of small but informative posts about the site itself and actually do a bit of marketing (gasp!) for the site now that this feature has been launched.

Comments, bug reports, etc are welcome and encouraged. There is a feedback mechanism built directly into the console.

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What Happened To The CFEmmy Awards?

I'm a bit surprised that not many folks have asked me about the CFemmy awards this year, but there is good news and bad news.

The bad news is that there will be no CFemmy awards this year.

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