The past couple of weeks I’ve been keeping busy with catching up on side projects and working hard at work. MindTouch has been showing constant growth across the board which is great to see. From the customer support end, I’m seeing more advanced cases where the customers are getting into the guts of MindTouch and extending it to tie together systems and to use it as the foundation for their Intranet or as a cornerstone to their Support documentation. It is a lot of fun to work with people on their goals and objectives and see them come to fruition through ingenuity and hard work.
As for my side projects I’m coming up on the last week for nominations for Support Awards. The response has been good and I look forward to a strong surge of nominations in this last week. If you haven’t nominated yet, or even if you have, you can go here to add your nominations for outstanding support/service: http://www.supportawards.org/Nominate
I’ve been doing some other little side projects to get back into some coding a bit. I’m working on a documentation rating extension for MindTouch that will allow users to rate documentation and give feedback if the documentation wasn’t helpful. This is helping to improve my Javascript/Ajax skills, and by improve I mean actually acquire the skills 
I’ve also been working on my Brother’s sites to make it easier to update and access. He will be launching an update to one of his sites running off of MindTouch.
At the end of Augusts I’ll be heading back to MN to see family. It will be good, I haven’t seen family since the beginning of summer and I like to make it back to MN about 3 times a year(including Christmas).
Other than that I’ve been keeping busy around the house and enjoying downtime with Pam. It feels good to get caught up and get things under control.
One last note, I’m thinking about getting a smartphone again. I had one a couple of years ago(early windows smartphone) and now I really want an Android phone. There are a couple of new ones coming out in Oct/Nov for Sprint so we’ll see how they are. Not 100% solid on it yet, but still fun to think about.
