Installing heated handgrips on a Suzuki Vstrom DL-1000
Personal
30
Dec 08
My Year in Cities, 2008
Following Jason Kottke’s example here is my year in cities for 2008 (at least as far as I can remember offhand):
- Big Sur, CA
- Los Angeles, CA
- Cupertino, CA
- Santa Cruz, CA
- Monterey, CA
- Jacksonville, FL
- St. Petersburg, FL
- Boston, MA
- Austin, TX
- Seattle, WA
21
Apr 08
Quoted at Computerarts.co.uk
The AIR Application that I built for Disney and presented at Adobe’s MAX2007 is still generating some buzz. I was quoted discussing the new capabilities of AIR by Computer Arts UK. Read the full article at http://www.computerarts.co.uk/in_depth/features/rich_internet_apps__design_and_development
Or you can see just the important part where I am quoted.
“AIR allows for local caching,” says Josh Bloom, design technologist at frog design. “That was a huge portion of the application – storing the most recent and relevant content was an important feature for agents. Dragging and dropping within and from other apps also made things much easier for agents than using paper and ink.”
5
Oct 07
Quoted on Cnet.com
The AIR Application that I built for Disney and presented at Adobe’s MAX2007 conference was quite a hit. I was interviewed about it by Martin LaMonica from Cnet. Read his full coverage at www.news.com:8301-10784_3-9789007-7.html
Or you can see just the important part where he quotes me 
That covers a lot of what a developer needs to build applications, said Josh Bloom, a design technologist at Frog Design, which helped design and write the Disney travel application.
In this case, he picked Flex Builder, Adobe’s development tool, to write the application and used Flash as well. Frog Design takes advantage of Microsoft user interface tools, which he said are more complete.
“You can be a full Web developer and have access to the desktop (with AIR) which you didn’t have access to before,” Bloom said.
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May 07
Beautiful 3 Bedroom 2 Bath house for Sale in Scottsdale, AZ
Hello loyal reader(s),
Our time in Arizona is coming to an end, for those that don’t yet know I’ve accepted a really awesome position with a really awesome company in San Francisco (more about that in another post). Because of that Jody and I are up and leaving AZ. Unfortunately for us that means it’s time to sell our beautiful house 
This is a great opportunity to get an excellent house in southern Scottsdale, right by Old Town and next door to the new SkySong technology park. This a great area to invest in, I wish I could keep this house and live in San Francisco, but that doesn’t work financially.
To view pictures and virtual tours follow this link: http://www.1720north75thplace.com/
Here are some stats on the house itself:
3 bedroom 2 bath
1506 sq ft.
Upgraded Kitchen Features Center Island, Breakfast Bar, Large Walk-In Pantry And Newer Oven/Range/Dishwasher/Disposal/Pot Rack!
Large 24 Inch Tile With Custom Tile Border In Kitchen, Living Room, And Dining Room!
Spacious Rooms With Lots Of Natural Light! Custom Accent Paint! Ceiling Fans! Security System!
Nice Size Master With Walk-In Closet!
Remodeled Bathrooms With Newer Sinks And Cabinets!
Large Private Backyard (Block Fence)With Extended Covered Patio and Mature Landscaping!
Great For Entertaining! Close To Shopping, Restaurants,Fitness Center, And Walking Distance To El Dorado Park And Aquatic Center!
Oh and don’t forget the Meyer Lemon tree in the front yard. This guy produces Lemons the size of my head! and they’re delicous, as far as lemons go anyway.
Here’s where it is google map
9
Apr 07
NoirSects.com
I wanted to let everyone know about a new website I’ve created called NoirSects.com
The site features noir style photographs of insects. The first 3 pictures up there are mine, but the site is open to all interested photographers. To get your photos shown on noirsects.com all you need to do is join the flickr group and add your photos to the group. They’ll show up automatically on the webpage.
Thanks to Lucas J. Shuman for creating fjs a Javascript library for displaying flickr photos. Open source is great, I can go from thinking about something like NoirSects.com to having a working version in very short time, thanks to people who publish their code for re-use.
21
Mar 07
Portfolio Update
I’ve added another option to my portfolio site that lets you view all of the project thumbnails at once.
Please check it out. I’ve also updated my event handling code so that it works correctly across more browsers (IE).
Unfortunately Opera is not working so well, but since most of my readers don’t seem to be using Opera anyway, it’s on the low priority fix list right now. Update: It seems the opera errors were only on my local copy, weird.
-Josh
18
Mar 07
My new portfolio
I’m inviting everyone who stops by to take a look at my new portfolio.
http://jbloomdesign.com/portfolio
Let me know what you think.
Thanks.
I built the portfolio using YUI, Python and JSON
All of those technologies are great by the way. Highly recommended!