The flock has been extremely focused for the past few months on a variety of interesting projects. The inverse relationship of workload and blog updates has been proven once again as evidenced by the lack of updates around here. I hope to remedy that with a regular stream of topics over the next few weeks.

To kick things off, here are a few of the high level going-ons and up-comings in Sheepland :

• Jeff secured our office space in New York
  I suspect once he gets settled in we’ll see him resume his office space entries here. I’m personally anxious to see what kinds of new remote collaboration having two fixed office locations will allow us to explore. In the meantime, the Seattle crew is already planning our NY offsite.


• Adobe released CS4
  While we all had our heads down, Adobe snuck a major new release by us. I’ll post some details about the interesting new features in InDesign from a developer’s perspective soon.


• I’ll be at IFRA Expo 2008 in Amsterdam
  At the end of the month I’ll be at IFRA, arguably the most important publishing conference in the world. We hope to exhibit at next year’s IFRA, so this trip is partially a scouting run. In addition, one of our clients will be making a big announcement and demoing the project we have been working on for several months at the show. I’d love to meet up with any developers in the area while there, just drop me a line.


• Matt and Jake attending Adobe Max
  Matt and Jake will be heading down to San Francisco for Adobe Max in November. Looks like there will be some interesting sessions on Flex and InDesign Server.


• New web site and branding
  We have been slowly working on a new web site and a slight update to our brand. The slowly aspect is entirely due to my preoccupation with other matters. Our web-guru and artist, Layne at Hudson Dusters, is ready to dive in and hopes to have a roll-out before the quarter is over.


• Throwing our hat in the iPhone ring
  We of course love our iPhones here at RS. We also happen to love our Cocoa as well. When the release of the native SDK brought the two together, we really had no hope of resisting. Having splashed around in the pool a bit, we are now ready to apply our years of Cocoa experience and expand our services to include contract iPhone development. If you have a project or know someone who needs a development shop for iPhone work, we’d be glad to talk.


• Holiday Party planning
  Finally, I want to note that the RS 2008 Holiday Party planning has started. We have secured the same lovely space we had last year, which appeared to be universally adored. Make sure you leave December 5th open on your calendars!

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