VendAsta TurnHere video

We are into 4 weeks of building new product called MashedIn. See how we are connected:

Most promising new company

I am proud to report that today VendAsta won the 'Most promising new company' award founded by Saskatchewan Interactive Media Association Inc. This is big deal for us as it marks the first major award in our one year existence. Since January of 2008 we have grown to 27 employees who who easily represent the top echelon of Saskatoon technical community. Thank you guys and girls, thank you Sask Interactive. We are very proud.

From Sask Interactive website:
Saskatchewan Interactive Media Association Inc. is the professional organization representing interactive media developers in Saskatchewan. As that professional voice, SaskInteractive represents members involved in the development of content-based interactive digital media, as well as consumers and stakeholders. The Association acts on behalf of its members to represent their views to Government, Industry, the News Media, and to the general public.

Cosmopolitan interaction

Monday is the day I'm starting to work remotely from Hawaii. Our scrum meetings will especially be interesting as I will have to attend them at 5:15 am my time. I do look forward working remotely though. I think it will give me the opportunity to improve the process and interaction for all of our remote employees.

VA Wallpapers

Out of nowhere we have two great VendAsta wallpapers. First Chris jamed 'Naturally Talented' and then Krystian reviled his home project 'VendAstically Fresh'. Great work guys.






So we also have a third wallpaper which I've missed. No P in pasta is done by Dave Mo

Let's kick some grass!

Just in time for the indoor soccer season VendAsta sponsored local soccer team which is going to compete in Saskatoon District & Soccer Association's 6v6 boarded and 7v7 artificial turf leagues. You can follow
VendAsta Flatlanders record here:
6v6 league and 7v7 league.

We won’t brag, At least not yet.
But, we’re a team about as good as they get.
The VendAsta Flatlanders are playing soon.
And, we kick butt all the way to the moon.

Ole, ole, ole, ole. Ole, Ole. Ole, Ole.

IPhones and free time to play with them are now part of VendAsta's philosophy

IPhone SDK bug hit home very hard. Everyone, with no exception, started to dream up new applications we could build. Why not? After all we have a house full of super achievers so why not turn them loose? ... It is exactly what we are going to do. From now on every Friday afternoon is designated to a "go wild and work on whatever ideas you might have" time. And since it is very hard to work on the IPhone without the IPhone, we are going to buy an IPhone for everyone too (theirs to keep). We are also going to cover monthly data plan to remove any testing obstacles. Apple products are obviously most popular but similar to our laptop policy, the choice of the mobile device or a phone belongs to our devs.