I’m starting to wonder whether we need to worry about making our blog look all sexy or if we need to worry about how we handle our posts so that they can be viewed properly in an RSS reader? I’m starting to question whether I should have a nice sexy blog, or a simple elegant blog that the posts will work well with RSS readers? What are your thoughts?
So I thought I’d write a little post letting everyone know that I haven’t forgotten about them. I’ve been a little busy with working on a Rails blog that I was going to be creating, and have had a few web design projects I’ve been trying to get finished up. Hopefully I won’t be much longer! I have a few cool things for you to check out while I’m away. The first one is called Synergy. It’s a cool open source utility that I’ve been using at work to connect all my computers (6 in total) together with the ability to use 1 set of keyboard and mouse. The second is called iShowU. It’s a cool little screen recording utility that I just purchased to help with creating some screencasts on a Mac. It’s about 20 bucks and gives me a clean looking file that through the use of a few programs I can convert the MOV file to an AVI file so I can edit and produce in Camtasia Studio. Hopefully sometime in the near future Camtasia Studio will be for a Mac. But until then, iShowU will do the trick for me.
I hope to have a new screencast up soon that will show you Synergy (at least on each side, Mac and PC), and maybe one that shows you a few things about iShowU. I have a list of some ROR screencasts that I’d like to do, but I’m finding that I need to really just record and then splice together all sorts of pieces to get a screencast. Maybe I’ll have the option soon to create shorter ones with the use of Jing, iShowU, and Camtasia Studio. 
I’m sure some of you have noticed the new design I’ve put to my blog. I decided that it was something that I wanted to do to spruce up my blog, and make it a little more “web2.0″ looking. I also wanted to make the post area a little bigger so that I could add videos that will actually be a little bigger in width and height. I also wanted to test out Skitch since I had got my invite this weekend. Please feel free to give me some feedback about the template and hopefully in the next day or so I’ll have up a quick little video about Skitch.
So most of you have heard of the Startup Weekend that took place out in Boulder, CO earlier this month. Well the project that they launched is called Vosnap, which is currently in private BETA. I expect that that they will be in a public beta soon, in which I hope to be apart of. Recently, Andrew Hyde, Startup Weekend Founder, sent out an open invitation to cities to host a startup weekend. Thus far there’s been 10 cities that have responded with 6 of them having set dates. The first one to come up will be the Toronto Startup Weekend, Sept. 14-16th.
I was approached on Thursday by my good friend Matt, who asked me to sign up for the DC Weekend in October. I had to of course, since anything with Matt is always promising and always a good networking opportunity. I am looking forward to heading down to the DC area for a chance to create the next big Web 2.0 app. I am also looking forward to get to meet the organizers of the weekend and founder of the startup weekend. Currently there is roughl 55 or so that are signed up. If you are in the DC area, please checkout the DC Startup blog for more details and to register. One thing to note is that we will be developing the core of the application with Ruby on Rails. Now don’t let this discourage your from becoming a part. There’s lots of other developers, PR, Legal, Business, etc. that is needed for this to work.
