March 30 - Yesterday, a bunch of us from LUGOD and SacLUG staffed a booth at a tech. writers conference held by the Sacramento chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. We gave out some demo-Linux discs, and Open Source software for Windows, to whet their appetite! It went quite well!March 28 - I just put up some preliminary screenshots of Tux Print... Enjoy!
March 27 - Oracle and IBM are coming to LUGOD in April and May! Check out the press release I got posted over at NewsForge.com!
March 26 - SacLUG and LUGOD will be hosting a booth at the Writer in the Workplace Conference in Sacramento this Saturday. Even with very short notice, we're cranking out Knoppix demo-Linux CDs and copies of OpenOffice to give away!
March 26 - Once again, I'm slowly climbing the hall of fame ladder at Slashdot. (Asthmatics: beware of thunderstorms!)
March 22 - There's a nifty whitepaper comparing the new model of Sharp Zaurus Linux-based PDA with the older model. I got it Slashdotted.
:^)March 22 - I've begun a new 'kids productivity' project, along the lines of my popular Tux Paint. It's called Tux Print, and is going to be a simple tool to print banners, posters, cards and newsletters. Lots of clip-art will be needed! E-mail me if you'd like to donate your artistic skills to this new Open Source project! (I even got it mentioned on DesktopLinux.com and in the Linux in Education Report!)
March 20 - Photos from my Tux Paint demo at MacNexus are now online!
March 18 - There's an article over at LinuxLookup.com about the formation of the team. (It got Slashdotted, too.) Oh, and there's also a news posting over at LinuxGames.com.
March 18 - Woo-hoo! I've been chosen to be part of the Linux Game Publishing development company. Not exactly a job, but a good start!
March 17 - A new Zaurus PDA is available, and the older model is going cheap. Check out this article I co-posted over at Slashdot.
March 17 - I almost forgot to mention this! Late last week, at the request of a nice lady from the Red Cross (who found my web-based game Tic-Tac-Web), I've created a simple one- or two-player Tic-Tac-Toe game for Windows. (Screenshot)
March 17 - I noticed an interesting post over at the forums for the excellent gamers comic strip, Penny Arcade. Someone was working on art for a game starring one of the strip's characters. I decided to write some code to demonstrate the art in action.
March 16 - Ever vigilant, I just threw 30 copies of my resume into the wind, hoping that one of the game companies it landed at would have something available. Most striking was a place called Riverdeep, an educational software company (a kind of place I'm obviously interested in working for), in my home town, of all places! (Novato, California)
March 15 - Today I showed off and answered questions about Linux to passers-by during a three-hour Linux demo held by LUGOD. I got the chance to give out a half-dozen or so Tux Paint CDROMs to kids, which was a great feeling. (Especially when the parents' eyes lit up when I said it was totally free.)
March 13 - I'm one of the 16 finalists left in the Linux Game Publishing Company Sponsorship competition! (See the press release to learn more.) I'm of course taking heat from my peers for creating yet-another-Tetris.
;^)March 11 - Tux Paint got a 5-out-of-5 rating, and a nice review at a website called Completely FREE Software.
March 11 - My friend Pete Salzman offered to burn a stack of CDs with Tux Paint on it, for handing out at the MacNexus user group meeting I'm going to next week. With silkscreens, and all! Check them out!
March 10 - In the past year, I've received a number of large letters with 'handwriting' on the front with a personal message that goes:
Mr. Kendrick,'Really?', I ask myself as I rip the letter up and throw it in the recycling bin next to the mailbox. 'Could it be... I am not a senior?"
You have a big stake in Social Security and Medicare -- like everyone in your generation.
Yet you were not one of the nearly 16,190,000 seniors who answered our previous letters.
I think I know why.:^)March 9 - I've been contacted by a company in Australia that's working on a cross-platform programming interface for cellphones and PDAs. They told me they took my game Vectoroids and ported it in under 3 hours! I'll post more as it becomes available.
March 6 - I'll be demonstrating the Zaurus (a Linux-based PDA) at an upcoming meeting of SVLUG, a very large Linux users group that meets in San Jose. (Probably the July 2nd meeting.)
March 3 - I've split my résumé up into two tracks: game development (what I do regularly as a hobby, and am very interested in doing professionally) and web development (what I've been doing professionally for the past 8 years). I've also created some simple cover letters. Pass them around!
;^)March 2 - I spent this weekend getting familiar with job sites like Monster, Dice and Craigslist. Wish me luck!
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