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Very recently, myself and family relocated from the Portland, OR area to Bloomington/Normal, IL.  As a result, we needed to decide what we wanted to do with the consultancy.  I decided that Douglas Reynolds Consulting should live on, should continue to provide service to our existing clients, and continue to develop new clients.  Since, to a great degree, our services are provided remotely, we feel quite confident that we’ll be able to continue on with business as usual.  We’ve been spending much of our time getting networked into the new location, communicating with our clients, developing leads for new clients, and managing account changes, etc…  We have much to do yet, amounting to a task list with over 150 items resulting from relocating.  We are very excited about opportunities that are present in Illinois and prospecting is going well.  Certainly, we are interested in your inquiries for RIA, Business Systems, and Executive Administration services, regardless of location, so feel free to contact us to discuss your needs.

We have big, no, huge community goals this year in our new location.  We will be contributing to the community of developer’s in the Bloomington/Normal area.  I have already begun this process by submitting an application to start an Adobe Community RIA group with the hopes of bringing developers in this area together to network, share information, assist one-another with troubleshooting problems, and have a place to “get their geek on” and have fun.  Additionally, we wish to bring area business and education (we have Illinois State University and Illinois Wesleyan University here) awareness of the local developers and Adobe platform solutions with the hopes of strengthening the Adobe community and resources available to those businesses and institutions.  We’re going for Adobe community with all of our resources.

We are going to be adding a series of ‘Kit’ solution packages.  We are currently breaking down all of the services which we provide, discerning which ones are most in demand, and which ones best compliment one-another.  We will then be putting together a standardized set of packages and pricing.  Of course, any Kit may be customized to fit individual client’s needs, but we will be able to provide a series of entry points, better communicating initial project budget and needs requirements.  We believe this will simplify the process of providing for client needs, as well as to create a degree of self-service that potential clients may use in comparing various solutions.

In order to assist with the new Kit structure, brand awareness, and sales/retention, we are going to be adding a new internal position, Director of Evangelism.  Our new Director, to be named in the next couple of weeks, will aide in Kit development, marketing and sales, and evangelism of Douglas Reynolds Consulting services.

Within our Adobe platform development, we will be implementing Flex 4 for all future developments, unless otherwise specified by client requirements.  ColdFusion will continue to be our server-side platform solution in all cases where possible, falling back on PHP as needed.
We intend to incorporate allot more JS jQuery into our maintenance and future projects.  We have been so stoked with the UX design results we’ve achieved, in such a light-weight library, that jQuery has won our hearts and minds.

We will be coming up with more business/platform development ideas along the way, because, well, that is what we do.
Thank you to all of our clients for making it possible for us to do what we love…Develop.

RIA | Business Systems | Executive Administraion
“Putting it all together”^sm
Douglas Reynolds Consulting
http://www.douglasreynoldsconsulting.com

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My 17+ year-old cat Pebbles hanging out on the couch, doing some cleaning. She was quite interested in the camera and gave me a nice still image at the end.

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Meme(me) Doug as i am right now

Following on from Mark Drew’s Post, here I am at almost 1:00 AM, up playing with Virtual Machines.

If you want to join in this meme the rules are:

1. Take a picture of yourself right now
2. Don’t fix your hair, don’t change your clothes, just take the picture
3. Post that picture with no editing
4. Post these instructions with the picture

• Kicking back and watching some HP Goblet of Fire #
• hmmm, interesting http://tinyurl.com/22oqxl mac remote desktop to Windows #
• dang, looks like no worky with intel mac #
• @TuttleTree I was looking at the mactopia RDC beta 2 requirements, @bigmadkev mentioned that beta three was worth a look #
• nice, tweeting from my Win box through RDC from my Mac #
• I used to use RDC from home to office through my VPN but actually had some licensing issues with my ERP at the time – stupid license. #
• I feel one step closer to ridding myself of my Win box. Not really but just feel that way (-; #
• pretty cool personal productivity flex app http://mint.com #
• uhgg!, want to buy music but cant decide #

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• good morning, slept in a couple hours. looks like a nice, sunny morning out. make some coffee and take zach to swim lessons this morning. #
• Just had coffee with @mpayne1970, so cool to actually meet twitter friends #
• @danlance oh man, best wishes and prayers from my family! #
• serious spring cleaning going on at my house. putting together a maintenance list as we go #
• taking a break, doggies getting tired #

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• lovin the twhirl update http://www.twhirl.org/, new layout – Likey!, more skins (i think). Liking ‘Black Magic’. #
• giving some props to Assembla http://www.assembla.com/ I’ve been using free development spaces (svn, trac, scrum, time, etc.) good stuff. #
• @seancorfield don’t you just love tm, i’ve been plugging in every day and my change sets are only taking a couple of minutes. #
• @seancorfield probably, but i have been leaving mine plugged in most of the day so i have allot of change sets #
• ha ha, too much http://tinyurl.com/58k5tt #
• playing some more Mario Galaxy #
• @simBateman glad you had a good ride, was wondering how the frame worked out – sounds like all is good! #
• mid day – ready for some weekend. validating business rules in an application for the remainder of day #
• @mpayne1970 coffee tomorrowmorning? #
• @polyGeek Why do I feel like your talking to me – could it be that I just did that this morning …hmmm #
• last one in the office today, not used to it being so quiet here…erie #
• time to wrap up and call it a weekend #

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• Where did the evening go? its already bedtime story time for Zach, listening to ‘sound scapes’ on cable music. #
• Rode the elevator up to work singing the its gonna be a great day song, sitting at my desk singing the I hate outlook song. #
• deciding what albums I’m going to buy from iTunes this wekend, some cool guy gave me a gift certificate! #
• Why doesn’t my bluetooth headset work with finetune desktop or lastFm desktop but works great with iTunes or on web??? #
• Cool, Zappa radio on iTunes radio #
• AS3 is single threaded isn’t it? #

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