Boulder

Drupal Meet-Up at pingVision tomorrow (Wednesday)

2008-07-08T11:12:18-05:00

We're coming up on the second ~~Tuesday~~ Wednesday of the month again, which means that the Drupal Denver/Boulder User Group is meeting here tomorrow night.

6:30pm - Gathering, pizza, soft drinks
7:00pm - Discussion and presentations

As yet, the agenda is wide open. Possible topics include:

DrupalCamp Colorado, which is happening on July 26th and 27th in Denver;
A mini-tour of the pingVision website, newly redeveloped in Drupal 6;
[Your project or questions]

See you here! [Google map]

Boulder Drupal User Group Meet-Up here on Monday, January 15th

2007-01-11T20:13:21-06:00

Come join us in celebrating Drupal's ~~5th~~ 6th birthday (and de facto office warming party) on Monday evening here at the pingVision offices in Boulder. (Address and map link below.) We'll officially start at 7ish, but if you want to come a half hour or so early and say hello, that'd be great! (This is our first chance to host a meet-up so we're very excited about that.)

Meet-ups tend to be participant-driven, but we do plan to show a little bit of Drupal 5, including its nifty new installer, its new totally revamped administration area, and of course the live-customizable Garland theme.

We'll then just go with the flow. At some point, we may adjourn and reconvene at a nearby location for celebratory beverages and such.

(More info at the announcement on Groups.Drupal.org.)

In new offices

2006-12-04T16:47:23-06:00

We reached a new little milestone in our company today by moving into our new offices in downtown Boulder, Colorado. We took over 2/3 of the first floor of this building ... which doesn't seem like all that much space, now that we're here.

It's a vast improvement over the virtual office life, where work is always there, just a few steps from the kitchen and bedroom and television. For some, I suppose, working at home would provide too much temptation to goof off.

For me, it was just the opposite: I couldn't just stop working. The workday never ended. I'd be up at midnight, browsing through the latest module updates on Drupal.org or blogging or debugging some project in development -- usually with bleary eyes. It's not a healthy way to work. It's also not very sustainable.

No, having an office where you can work work work, and then close the door and go home and have a life away from work is a much better way to go.

Today, Katherine, Greg and I went out to lunch at the Rio Grande restaurant. It was a beautiful walk down the Pearl Street Mall on a gorgeous, sunny day.

The weather can change in a hurry. This past weekend we were moving in 3?F. weather, but just a few days ago, we had mid-60s sunshine and the office looked like this.

Gotta love Colorado.

Missing Little Sunshine

2006-08-28T15:20:23-05:00

So many Design Houses are are in Northern California or New York or Southern California. And these are great areas. We've all heard their nicknames - Silicon Valley (Northern California), Silicon Beach (Southern California, especially San Diego), Silicon Forest (Pacific Northwewst/Seattle), Silicon Desert (Utah), as well as I-128 (Boston), Research Triangle (North Carolina), and Silicon Mountain (Colorado). There are others, but the point is that the today there are opportunities for high technology to thrive in a multitude of locales.

pingVision chose Boulder, Colorado, as its home. There is something about the altitude and the climate; where 330 days of sunlight and blue skies that invites a kind of creativity that we find appealing. Then there is the University of Colorado at Boulder with its student population and environment of learning that makes Boulder an ideal place for our work.

Being so close to nature and recreation helps us recharge our psychic batteries through hiking, skiing, snowboarding, rock climbing, parasailing, mountain biking & road cycling, or just taking in so many mountains.

But it is the natural light that streams through the windows that adds brilliance to colors and details to textures.

As we grow, we will add other locations to serve our Clients, but Boulder will always hold a special place ... at least for me.