Back in September I went on medical leave at Crowd Favorite. That ended on March 15th and due to a number of reasons, I’m not going to be re-joining the team in my previous capacity. Instead, I will be an advisor to Crowd Favorite while I return to my independent developer roots.1 The largest factor…
The great folks at Forty, the design arm of Crowd Favorite, are hiring a content strategist. Ideally they want a local candidate to join them in their office in Tempe, AZ, but they will consider exceptional remote candidates as well.
I stopped by the Forty office this week and it’s pretty awesome. It’s on the 3rd floor of a cool older building right in the heart of Mill Street in downtown Tempe.
About a month ago I made the decision to take a medical leave of absence from Crowd Favorite. My goal is for this to be a relatively brief hiatus. I love our team and can’t wait to get back to doing cool things with them. In the interim, I’ll be focusing on my health (more…
I’m very pleased to welcome my friend Chris Lema as the new CTO of Crowd Favorite (I will be sliding into a Chief Software Architect role). I look forward to working with Chris to make the Crowd Favorite team even stronger.
UPDATE: See Chris’s post and his interview on Post Status.
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We’ve been working with my friend Justin to create a new web app experience for Glassboard. He’s teasing the new UI – I’m pretty pleased with the design we came up with. We’ll have lots more on this when it ships.
A pretty cool case study we released last week on creating a WordPress-powered website for Colorado Mountain College.
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Fun coverage of the Crowd Favorite / Forty 
negotiations 
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I’m super excited that I’ll be working alongside my friend James Archer and his talented team. This is a great next step for Crowd Favorite.
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We’ve got a ton of great stuff going on at Crowd Favorite right now. We are hiring for front and back end web developers, and we just put out a call for junior developers. While our first preference is to continue expanding our offices in Denver, Los Angeles (and Orange County), Las Vegas and Bucharest,…
At Crowd Favorite we’re getting ready to hire several developers. I’ve been told that our on-boarding process can be stressful, but I’ve also been told that this is the case for most high performing teams. I’d like to smooth the path a little for our new hires, so I’m going to try a new approach.…
I recently got an email that asked: Do you ever question whether WordPress is the correct CMS for something? I am a big WordPress fan too and I’ve solved some really cool content management challenges with it but there are times when I think, this site would probably be faster and more efficient if it…
On Friday Karim and I signed the final papers to bring my Crowd Favorite team together with his VeloMedia team. Whew! I’ve told the story of how I came to build Crowd Favorite countless times. I tell it on podcasts and in on-stage interviews, to candidates during the recruitment and interview process, to folks who…
We’ve pushed out a few new versions of RAMP recently, addressing: v1.4.4 More obvious error messages when media fails to transfer v1.4.3 and v1.4.2 both address issues with backslashes being removed from content. I’ve written about this issue ad nauseum, but RAMP was originally written before the issue was discovered. If my patches had gone…
I’m really excited to start working with Brandon and Jeffery; this is a great addition to the Crowd Favorite family.
UPDATE: Check out Chris Lema’s post and the announcement on Pixel Jar’s blog.
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This post outlines a few gems I wish I’d had learned years ago. One of the things I’m most excited about in my shift to CTO at Crowd Favorite is reducing the cognitive load that managing hiring, HR, benefits, paying bills, etc. take on my productivity.
(thanks Michael)
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