Random Thought

So I have been working back in design and development for the past few months again, and that got me to thinking about some of the places I’d worked in the past.  Here at Multicom I enjoy design freedom, great atmosphere and my ideas and opinions are valued.  That wasn’t always the case though, in fact some places I didn’t mesh well with because they wanted Cookie Cutter websites with no real flair, sadly the first and foremost in my mind for this was working for an idiot named Lou off of Broadway near the St. Louis riverfront.  But I feel that even out of the industry professionally for a few years I’m still designing stronger than his people ever could, and my company makes 75% more money per job than his (and we crank them out twice as fast).  So a little vindication on my part is to know that I’m in a totally better place now :D Maybe for fun I’ll get my sales guys to go after his clients, it’s been over two years since I’ve worked there so I have no qualms with ethics on that one.

It’s been a long road for me in the last nine years or so of being a programmer/designer/forward thinker/drinking champ, but I’m still holding up.Anyway, on to the latest and greatest.  I’ve been super busy at work last few days with a rush job for Warner Brothers, they’re sponsoring a fun greenscreen project for the Warped Tour 2007.  My company built the system and I had to get a retreival website knocked out in short time, but you can see it at tsnevents.com but please be good, it’s a live data collection site, so entering your details will surely get you spammed up!  The trickiest part of this was trying to figure out PNG transparency with only a Mac and a few Windows boxes around (all of which had IE7).