New Year, long time no see, yeah I've been busy

Well, it has been a while since I last posted to my blog. Well the fact is I've been crazy busy with work, the holidays, and just plain keeping up with life. So I guess I'll provide an overview of work, holidays, and life.

Work

For the last six months I have been partnering with a colleague to manage and run Swipht Technologies. We have been working hard to keep the company profitable while making sure our clients get the service and support they need. So if you are looking for business and technology consulting or just need graphic design, business analysis, usability, or systems integration help. Give Swipht a call, we have professionals on-staff (or in our broad network of consultants and partners) who can solve your problems.

http://www.swipht.com

So without further adieu here is a run down of the projects we have been working on.
(PS yeah I know many of my project descriptions are empty, I'm working on documenting it.)

Ensequence

http://www.ensequence.com - Project Description

Swipht has been working hard to build a Drupal 6 version of the client's website. The key feature is providing a image and video management interface within Drupal that provide XML/RPC feeds to a Flash video player. We expect to have the site done with the month of January, 2011.

River Network

http://www.rivernetwork.org - Project Description

Swipht is working on integrating Drupal content types, Ubercart Orders, and user registration into Salesforce. Also we have expending the client's Drupal system to support a robust e-commerce package and member groupware and community management.

National Service Learning Clearinghouse

http://servicelearning.org - Project Description

Swipht has built a new theme for the NSLC Drupal 6 website. It includes user bookmark management and stronger integration into the Solr search features.

Tektronix

http://www.tek.com - Project Description

Swipht is providing business analysis, information design, and technology consulting to the Business, user experience, and ITS groups within the corporation. The goal is to provide a phased development plan to migrate Tektronix to a Drupal platform throughout the 2010-2012 time frame.

City of Sherwood

http://www.sherwoodoregon.gov - Project Description

Swipht extended the Drupal solution to include a consolidated media management solution as well as integrated meeting resource index where users could post documents from meetings. The resource system tightly integrates with the email newsletter service and automatically sends emails to the list when new documents are uploaded.

CRC Health Group

http://www.crchealth.com - Project Description

Swipht provided business and technology consulting to the corporation providing recommendations and strategies for supporting a 600+ website integration strategy that included network/server, centralized service/features, and distributed content management.

Cool California

http://coolcalifornia.org - Project Description

Swipht partnered with Ecos Consulting to build a sophisticated product selection wizard that pulls data daily from a 3rd party data service. The interface provides a user friendly jquery selector to select products by features, colors, and rebate/standards.

Holidays/Personal

This holiday season that includes Oct, Nov, and Dec (since I haven't posted for that time) was pretty hectic. For both Thanksgiving and Christmas I hosted our family get together so (gasp) I had to cook. Yeah I'm sure you think because I'm a bachelor who lives alone my primary diet is  junk food. But you'd be wrong I cook, so well so that I made the Turkey for Christmas this year. I got 4 stars from the whole family. :)

This year I have several personal projects I plan to focus on. The first is simple, I'm going to add more photography and art I've created over the years into my gallery section. I finally finished cleaning up a spar room in my home and made it into an art room. It has been about 10 years since I picked up a pencil or paint brush, so I am going to spend some time working on art. I'm already behind in my commissions, I promised some drawing and or paintings to my family and friends for the holidays. Let's just say I didn't have time to deliver so that is the first set of works I have on my list.

I also plan to spend some time studying different historical art styles. My goal is to create a still life scheme and then try to draw or paint it in a historical style. Like for example trying Art Deco (my favorite), Dada, Expressionism, Cubism, etc. Then I plan to post the series on my website for all to admire or ridicule.