In August, I'm going back to school!
I'll begin a full-time position on the web development team at AIUOnline. AIUOnline stands for "American Intercontinental University Online", and this e-learning school provides a complete online university system with several degree programs. I don't know how much I can reveal about their internal operations, but I can say that their accomplishments over the past two years have been mind-boggling. I somewhat expected repetitive grunt work at an e-learning company, uploading course after course. In reality, they're dealing with interesting challenges that most web design studios would never encounter. The server-side engineers are way out of my league, so I'll be learning some .Net programming (thanks to Mano for the box of VS.Net, it's going to come in handy!). I'm also going to work with some very efficient Flash designers and Authorware gurus. Toss in a semester-based development cycle, and you've got a really intruiging situation.
Last year, they had 600+ students, and now we'll be working very hard to scale the system for several thousand students in two years. Within a few months, the team's going to move into a whole new building next door, about 40 miles northwest of Chicago. I'm going to look for the Chicago MMUG this fall...
By the way, my job title says "User Interface Engineer", but that's just because they didn't really care about titles. I got to pick my title... I considered "Shaolin Actionscripter" but guessed that "User Interface Engineer" would get me a better computer :)
Ok, two posts in one day, the next one tonight will feature a new component for bevelling. I've used this component frequently on my own projects, it's really quite useful. Eric Jordan, bevelling master, generously offered to beta-test it and gave it two thumbs up. Now you too can create pixel-sharp bevels with a flick of the wrist!
Look for the bevelling component in 6 hours.
Cheers,
Sam
Cool ah "Shaolin Actionscripter".
... my title is "OLK" = one leg kick(in mandarin)
Hehehe, when would you kick with two legs? :)
I love watching Wong Fei Hong or any of the Jet-Li style of movies. My cat is nick-named "No Shadow Cat" :)
-Sam
Posted by: Sam at July 5, 2002 04:02 PMJet Li ... Fong Sai Yuk..
no more needs to be said :)
Posted by: tripleaxis at July 5, 2002 04:55 PMHey, thanks for the Fong Sai Yuk suggestion. My girlfriend said it's really good, so we're going to rent that video tonight!
-Sam
Posted by: Sam at July 5, 2002 08:53 PMMy cat is named Shadow :)
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