rob was here.

I just loaded up the website to my previous company (Northstar Technical) and noticed that an application I wrote is now listed in the product listing of the company! How cool is that? I made a product! The project started as an idea in late 2005 at home, where I mocked up the interface. It turned into a personal full fledge project when I showed the Senior Engineers. I finished it in the Spring of 2006 and it was trialled with some customers. I left the company around about then in favor of my current employment. It's just cool to see something grow from an idea that occurred some evening to a marketplace product now advertised on a website.

I attached a screenshot in case the website ever disappears:



If you look closely at the screenshot, you'll notice that the app is running in Linux, specifically Fedora Core 4-5, which to date has been my favorite Linux experience. This application also marked my first experience developing software from a *nix environment, which I did to make sure I could. For nostalgia sakes, take a look at this post.

One experience I had from that project was it was my first serious attempt at striving at all means to make a usable and meaningful interface, specifically a dashboard. Dashboard design has become an intrigue of mine at my current job, specifically for web applications as opposed to the desktop application shown here. It's funny how one thing leads to another.