The Balance between Designers and Developers

KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid.

A law that I abide by in my everyday life, including web standards. I have been learning (sometimes the hard way) the balance between good ethics in web design and user navigation.

When I am in my creativity and brainstorm mode, sometimes I …

Y Combinator, Business Pitching

I recently submitted my business plan and beta models to Y Combinator.

"Y Combinator does seed funding for startups. Seed funding is the earliest stage of venture funding. It pays your expenses while you're getting started.

At Y Combinator, our goal is to get you …

Birthday, Halloween, Leopard Trio!

Today, is my 19th Birthday!! Thanks to all my friends and family for making this birthday amazing. I am very excited for 19, it will be packed with new ventures and fun.

I Love "Unconferences"

This past month I attended both BarCampOrlando and blogOrlando - I had the best time meeting, socializing and sharing ideas with other web elites.

Thanks to friend and film geek Jason for making the video posted of the event.

"On Sunday the 23rd, code-crunchers, web …

BarCamp Orlando, I'll be there!

BarCampOrlando is a bi-yearly event to bring together people from different technical backgrounds to share and learn from each other. There will be people who know Java, .NET, Ruby, PHP, and other technologies coming together for a free all day event.

When? September …

The Balance between Designers and Developers

KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid.

A law that I abide by in my everyday life, including web standards. I have been learning (sometimes the hard way) the balance between good ethics in web design and user navigation.

When I am in my creativity and brainstorm mode, sometimes I …

Look Mom, I'm on TV!

I recently licensed out my viral video as a kid [story] to FirstTV Production in LA. So tonight, the Country Music Channel (CMTV) will be playing it on the tv show Country Fried Home Videos hosted by comedian Bill Engvall at 8:30pm EST. I'll be tivoing it. Watch it if …

Web Dev Meetup Tonight

I'll be at the Orlando Web Developer & Designer meetup group tonight. If your in the area, stop by and say hi!

The purpose of this group will be primarily focused around web development, though should be open to technology and design discussions outside of our specific …

Back to School!

Thanks to Tangent - Digital Media Student - University of Central Florida

Digital Media Principles

This class seems like a lot of fun! The professor already mentioned Web 2.0 technologies and elaborated more about the way Digital Media and how social networks are …

PhotoshopTV Studio Visit

Last week I went to visit the guys over at the PhotoshopTV Podcast thanks to my friend Paul.

The company, the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) are also charge of the popular magazines - Photoshop User, Layers Magazine, and a the publishers of a few …

Google and the Marching Robots

On Friday, I called my bffs at Google to get the answer straight on the robots.txt file. If you have never heard of a robots.txt file, it is a simple text file that is placed on the root directory of most websites. Through this very short code, as you can see placed in

Happy March! New Podcast Episode.

For those who don't know, I am actively involved in the University of Central Florida's Digital Media Podcast on campus, I am the technology host personality and content manager.

When the podcast was established in early 2005, it was officially declared by Apple as …

Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves!

To wrap up this week in shooting the Sydney White film [Week 1, Week 2], they shot most of the sorority scene. Therefore, I didn't do any of the filming, just watching.

I will shoot the fraternity scene next week in the old SAE house and outside the Recreation and …

Full Sail: School of Film, Art, Design, Music & Media Tour

http://surrealsites.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/full-sail_13b.jpg' align = left" alt="'Full" />Full Sail is an institute like know other. Located in Orlando, the school specializes in technology, film and media, the money is poured into creating a chic new school for aspiring artists and innovators. Some may be turned down by the very high tuition fees, to the …

Tijuana Flatts Founder Interview

Today, the CEO Knights and I had the privilege to meet up with the founder of Tijuana Flats and UCF alumni, Brian Wheeler. He is a very motivational leader who turned his small restaurant into a huge franchised multi-million dollar success story. Tijuana Flats is a …

Happy March! New Podcast Episode.

For those who don't know, I am actively involved in the University of Central Florida's Digital Media Podcast on campus, I am the technology host personality and content manager.

When the podcast was established in early 2005, it was officially declared by Apple as …

UCF Astronomy Tower Exploration!

OK, I know it has been a while since I last updated and I wont make a habit of it anymore. I want to catchup on all the interesting things I have done this month. Hope everyone had a Hoppy Easter full of candy and coding.

UCF has one of the three University Astronomy …

Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves!

To wrap up this week in shooting the Sydney White film [Week 1, Week 2], they shot most of the sorority scene. Therefore, I didn't do any of the filming, just watching.

I will shoot the fraternity scene next week in the old SAE house and outside the Recreation and …

Full Sail: School of Film, Art, Design, Music & Media Tour

http://surrealsites.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/full-sail_13b.jpg' align = left" alt="'Full" />Full Sail is an institute like know other. Located in Orlando, the school specializes in technology, film and media, the money is poured into creating a chic new school for aspiring artists and innovators. Some may be turned down by the very high tuition fees, to the …

Becoming a Semi-Famous Internet Star: Part II

If you check out today, April 10, 2007, you will see my little face on the front page of EbaumsWorld.com for the second time. Thanks Becky for telling me! OK, there is a story behind this. This is taken from my blog post from "Becoming a Semi-Famous Internet Star: Part …