November 11, 2008

The Slim Kiwi Blog

Just a quick note if you’re following me here: The Slim Kiwi Blog is now live, focusing on our services, thoughts, trends and online marketing. Add that to your RSS reader, and keep up with me at markjreeves.com.
October 18, 2008
The nice thing about [web] standards…
The nice thing about [web] standards…
October 3, 2008
Fitbit - Automatically Track Your Fitness and Sleep
It’s unfortunate that the home page shows the device clipped to a pajama sleeve. The FAQ states that it clips to a wristband that’s included. In any case, Fitbit looks interesting. Analyzing and tracking data is fun.
October 1, 2008
The new home of Slim Kiwi North in downtown Salem, MA. Pictures in the Slim Kiwi photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/slimkiwi/
The new home of Slim Kiwi North in downtown Salem, MA. Pictures in the Slim Kiwi photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/slimkiwi/
The new home of Slim Kiwi North in downtown Salem, MA.
September 9, 2008
Downloadable Designs: Turn Your Phone into a Scanner : TreeHugger
I very often take a pic of items I receive in the mail or of sketches on paper with my iPhone and then email them to Alastair. This would optimize that approach.
August 5, 2008

Recent web site launches (including 3 today)

I’ve had the pleasure of launching a number of sites this summer, including three today that we’ll start with:

Jay Peak Resort - Working with Almighty Boston, I coded PHP using the AMFPHP framework for Flash to talk to. That PHP code talked to an ExpressionEngine database, completely bypassing the ExpressionEngine templating system. Not that I don’t like working with EE, and I’m well-versed in its language, but AMFPHP provided classes for Flash Remoting to hook into, and it was easy enough to just code SQL to hit the EE database.

Remote NewView - http://www.newviewtechnologies.com - Remote NewView is an exciting under-development app that will allow you to mirror your digital camera’s view, and some of its controls, on your mobile device. Think iPhone remote control of your digital cam. Why is this exciting? You can position your camera anywhere and hit the shutter button from where you are.

Mark J. Reeves - http://www.markjreeves.com - This was a quick overhaul of my personal homepage, with bio and aggregation of my blogs. I borrowed the design from the newly launched (two weeks ago)…

Slim Kiwi - http://www.slimkiwi.com - One year after tossing up a placeholder page while pitching a client, we launched a real Slim Kiwi home page. More content to come, including blog and portfolio.

Test Devices - http://www.testdevices.com - I worked with Sole Kitchen out of Providence to code this ExpressionEngine-driven, sIFR-using site, whose design originated with Slim Kiwi cohort (and then-Sole Kitchen employee), Alastair Halliday.

Rubie Green - http://www.rubiegreen.com - In conjunction with MOTH Design. I pitched the Magento e-commerce platform to Rubie Green while it was still beta, and they were interested in trying it on. It was a significant effort to learn and adapt Magento to the design that we committed to, but in the end a beautiful site sits atop a robust and ever-evolving platform.

MetLifeBank - http://www.metlifebank.com - I actually worked on this last spring, under contract with Company C Marketing in NYC. It took a while for MLB to fill in the back end and get it live, and now it’s up. I provided XHTML/CSS coding on all templates. Alastair Halliday contributed Flash modules. 

August 4, 2008
Study: Marketers integrate online, offline poorly - Boston Business Journal:
Why bother, then?
July 29, 2008
I took the 2008 Survey For People Who Make Websites
May 29, 2008
Review: Garmin Edge 705 GPS Offers Maps and Metrics for Data-Happy Cyclists | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
Makes me want to get a bike.