Mark McSpadden

I was doing more normal feed scan on Tuesday, when I came across an article by Robbie Wright titled Making RSS Easy. Little did I know it would steal half of my week.

What Robbie and the world didn’t know is that at my day job I’ve been hacking away at a community site for bankers that is all about making industry specific information easier to find and use. With that in mind I started hacking away trying to aggregate FI feeds. The results are as follows:

• Six compiled FI feeds
• A splash page for Banktastic complete with Google Analytics
• A mailing list for the Banktastic Beta Launch
• A deadline for Banktastic Beta

The moral of the story: Don’t read Robbie’s blog :)

Long weekend? I don’t even remember getting a short one…but it was worth it. After a longer than expected development cycle, I finally launched the new version of the McSpadden Technology website!

This is actually version 3 of the MTech site and I consider it a vast improvement in design and simplicity. (I created v2 in the backseat of a suburban on a trip from College Station to Dallas…not exactly what I would consider the ideal environment of the creative process.)

The site itself is another typo blog with a custom theme and some other tweaks and fun stuff. My favorite addition was the lightbox effects on the contact and projects links. (And by favorite I mean favorite now…not so favorite during development…though using ruby on rails and the Particletree ‘lightbox gone wild’...how can I really complain?)

Well what are you waiting for…go check it out!