Midterms week is done and I am relaxing to the max, NOT! That means I’m working on Scruple Enterprises’ business. We’ve got two projects ready to go out the door to clients and one project that is about one-third of the way done.
In other Scruple news, we’ve got our own office now! We’re located on the third floor of the BELL, Bedell Entrepreneurship Learning Laboratory and the space is free. We had to apply for the office with The University of Iowa’s John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (JPEC). The program is pretty great and allows Iowa students interested in pursuing a personal business to have an office and advisor. JPEC also offers group roundtable sessions that let all of the entrepreneurs get together and talk about their respective businesses as well as listen to guest speakers, ranging from lawyers and accountants to CEOs and consultants.

The Scruple group has worked on the big project all day and its now time for rest. Dinner at HuHot Mongolian Grill, a nice brew and maybe a movie. Sunday will bring professional football, fantasy football and more Scruple work.

Audios, Bienvenue, Au revoir, Audieu and all that shiz

Peace out

Things have certainly picked up in the last few days at the U. The weekend had many students moving into the dorms and setting up their computers on the University’s network. I was in the most remote dormitory, so my team only had to support one dorm, unlike others that had 3-4 dorms.

Also, Scruple is looking to become a formal business with a bank account and potentially an office in the BELL Center on campus. We’re acquiring new clients left and right, and are about ready to implement the Le Reve Salon & Spa site. We’re also looking to make a website for a local opthamologist that doubles as a business and informative site on LASIK eye surgery.

At work, the phones are ringing off the hook since we’re only three days into the fall semester. Yesterday morning started off with 32 voicemails and non-stop calls and voicemails for the rest of the day. With all this activity its hard to imagine when I’ll have free time to design again. But, once things slow down, I’ll be able to redesign the CSS for this blog so that it can be a part of the happy dsjoo template family.

Exciting things continue to happen even as the semester looms. I’m at Web Services and designing websites again. Right now, WTS is working with a few new departments and just finished delivered a project – Department of Cinema & Comparative Literature. That website was a collaboration between myself and a coworker in design and delivery, since I was gone during last two months. The training on Contribute went well enough and support questions will continue to filter in for a few weeks.

As for Scruple, things are progressing quite a bit. We are in the process of getting a Tax ID and a business bank account. We have been collaborating with another student who has added quite a bit of ideas to potential Scruple projects.  We’re also looking to make a login section on scruple.net for clients to view design comps and other client-specific information.

In other news, being without a TV in my room has lead to watching tv shows on my computer.  Much like Tivo, downloaded show series allows for watch-when-you-want programming.  School will start in less than two weeks, so hopefully I will be finished watching Deadwood Seasons 1 & 2.  In the mean time, in the words of Steve Ballmer, “Developers, developers, developers!”

Hello all,

This is my first blog post to the dsjoo blog. I had another blog, almost two years ago, but abandoned it a while back. I had no reason to blog then and wasn’t even terribly interested in web design. In the past year though, that’s all changed. I began working in a new position at the University last fall. Since then the web world has opened up and renewed creative juices have been flowing. I now have multiple jobs, all dealing with web and database design. One at the University, where I, and coworkers, design websites for departments and then train content managers on maintaing the site. I also work at Scruple.net with a small group of friends,designing websites for local businesses. Right now, I’m interning at FSI, a steel fabrication software company.

All that and the year’s just half over. Hopefully more exciting things are come.

Au revoir

-Derrick

P.S. At this very moment, I’m typing this blog entry using the Performancing Firefox extension, very slick.