Archive for August, 2008

“Instant web site?”

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

In the midst of bringing the first public revision of flyGarmin to a close at work, a friend emailed me and asked if I could whip up an “instant web site” as his new startup company was about to get national attention. I had a week. So I worked a normal busy day every day that [...]

So then I went to Oshkosh

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

The EAA air show in Oshkosh in Wisconsin, that is. flyGarmin was going to be released to the public for the first time in conjunction with the beginning of the air show. Garmin had a Monday morning press conference announcing all sorts of stuff, and flyGarmin was on the list. I was pacing around the [...]

flyGarmin launches

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

I know that may not mean anything to you, but that’s a big project I’ve been working on at work for the last many months. It’s been a fun, complicated project focussed on making it a lot easier for pilots who use Garmin equipment to keep their equipment up to date. It let’s pilots enter their [...]