Visual Lizard
Julian Moffatt
Julian is one of the founders of Visual Lizard Inc and a web/tech-junkie if there ever was one. He has a small collection of iPods (3 and counting) and a Blackberry 7250 for those times he is actually away from his computer.
Having been first introduced to computers at the tender age of 6, Julian has had at one point or another: an IBM PC XT, an Apple 2e, a Fujikama 286 (with a 256 colour monitor!!) through to the first computer he personally purchased, a glorious 486 PC with 40MBs of hard drive space and a 16-bit graphics card for $4200 in 1990. Coincidentally, that was his first loan as well. However, it was the 486 that led to the discovery of newsgroups (remember alt.rocknroll before Usenet?) and Pine, the worlds worst application for email ever. In-fact, some would say that his addiction to X-com and Pine caused him to take a break from University to pursue "something to do with computers dad". The rest is history as they say.
He works with a MacBook Pro in the office and is equally at home in front of Linux, Windows or OS X operating systems. He is project manager, design shepherd (he speaks designer fluently and has been known to run in certain design circles under an alias) and CSS guru. He also brow beats the guys in the office about accessibility, Search Engine Optimization and the importance of music to the soul.
When Julian is not actually working, he can be found enjoying time at the hockey rink with the guys, beating small synthetic dimpled balls across acres of manicured land or just hanging out with family and friends at home or the cottage.
In spite of all of the above, Julian has an awesome wife, two crazy-cute daughters (3 and 1), 2 cats and a dog that has moved out citing breach of contract under the "no-child-and-dog-cohabiting" clause. She visits from time to time, but can be found relaxing on a pile of sheep-skins at the grandparents house most days.
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37Signals Updates Basecamp With Reply via Email
We here at Visual Lizard have been using Basecamp from 37Signals for almost a year and half now. Basecamp is a simple online project management system. We use it to track our projects, milestones, communications, associated files, to-do lists and the time we spend working. To say they we depend on Basecamp to run our business would be an understatement.
Since we moved from dotproject to Basecamp, we have been able to invite our clients into their projects. This has been received very well by almost everyone we work with. When we create a new project we immediately give all of the people involved access and invite them in to participate.
As development progresses many messages are posted to each project. Anyone involved with the project can login to Basecamp and add their voice to the thread. This has been an amazing experience for almost everyone. The one catch to this is that you do need to login to an application at a web site and leave your regular email program to respond. Leaving the comfort of their regular email client to communicate via a website is more than some people have time for.
This week 37Signals has announced that they are implementing a feature we have been asking for. They will be rolling out the ability to reply to messages coming from Basecamp directly via your email client. You can read more at their site about the upcoming feature. We are stoked.
This is one of the major benefits of using an online business tool like Basecamp compared to an offline or open source solution. News features appear from time to time that augment your ability to interact with the application.
Mark my words, any forth coming web applications in the business productivity category that do not let you interact with them via email will be considered second class from here on out.
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Oct 08, 2008
Lustro
A neat little app that lets you export your Address Book (OS X) contacts into various formats, such as CSV, which was exactly what I needed.
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Oct 06, 2008
Viking Quest Game
And there is a DVD box set too! Yup, I.
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Sep 25, 2008
Get more from Mail
Bookmarked because I keep forgetting the boolean operators for Spotlight in Mail.
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Sep 18, 2008
Daring Fireball: There's Nothing There
Gruber pretty much sums up the entire Seinfeld, as Microsoft, experiment reaction and why it is so telling about Miscrosoft as a company. It is a shame, because I thought the ads, at the very least,...
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Sep 16, 2008
Bluff: Beautiful graphs in JavaScript
Nice Javascript library for making graphs. And who doesn.
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Sep 15, 2008
Shhh, Listen. Rare Soundscapes of Vanishing Habitats
Sad.
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Sep 15, 2008
Airsharing for the iPhone
A nifty little app (free right now) that allows you to send files to your iPhone via a local network mount. It also adds support for a bunch of doc types.
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Sep 12, 2008
Most common fonts for Windows, Mac and Linux, font survey results
Bookmarked because I can never remember these when I need to know them.
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