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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News from Lizard HQ
It has been awhile since we last spoke. For that, I’m sorry. However, we have been as busy as ever in the last few months (June, July and August) which has led to some radio silence on visuallizard.com. Here is a round up of what we have been up to:
- Nathan has left Visual Lizard for greener pastures somewhere in Transcona. We wish him all the best and hope things work out well for him in his new, extra corporate environment.
- Coming in to replace Nathan is Zhichuan Zhang. Zhichuan is one smart fellow, with more computer science degrees and letters behind his name than I even understand. We will introduce him formally and have him say a few words in the next few weeks.
- We had an incredible online presentation of our ATiM application for CTRNet. Over 60 people from more than 10 countries attended and interest is very high.
- Several projects have been started and completed over the summer. Some of the bigger ones are still hanging around, but they are all very close to being released to the wild.
- There is a new Visual Lizard logo popping up here and there, you can see it on our client portal if you are really interested. Soon it will make it’s appearance on the main site with a new interface, marketing materials and the like.
- And in case you couldn’t figure it out from #5, after 11 years at 70 Arthur Street, we are moving. We have new digs located just across Main Street at 141 Bannatyne. We will be taking possession October 1.
- Summer was short.
We’ve been busy. How about you? Leave a comment and let us know what you have been working on over the last few months.
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From The Web
Nov 12, 2008
Adobe CS4 Icon Set Replacement
Adam Betts with a very nice set of icons for CS4.
Linked by Julian
Nov 06, 2008
“Near Perfect” Absorption of Sunlight, From All Angles
This is a pretty awesome advancement in Solar Power. Hopefully this can become affordable within the next 10 years so we people can start generating their own energy.
Linked by Julian
Oct 30, 2008
Beatles Tunes Join Rock Band Game
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Rock Band has landed the Beatles Catalog for their game. Awesome!
Linked by Julian
Oct 28, 2008
Fifty People One Question
Maybe my mood today, but this is brilliantly done and worth the 7 minutes of your time.
Linked by Julian
Oct 22, 2008
A little mid-week pick me up from the Muppets
Youtube fun on a Thursday.
Linked by Julian
Oct 20, 2008
Keyword Generator
Google has a tool that you can use to analyze your site and suggest keywords for you. Of course it dovetails with AdWords, but Google does own the internet.
Linked by Julian
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.
Linked by Julian
Oct 06, 2008
Viking Quest Game
And there is a DVD box set too! Yup, I.
Linked by Julian
Wow. Love the new office space.