Danny Newman

Wow! I haven’t blogged in forever. It’s 5:00am the night before a big presentation….Austin and I are still at the office. I want a nap…but decided to write this post instead.

Bob says:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDENVER, Colo. June 12th 2007 –

The Actionscript Society is pleased to announce its inaugural gathering, taking place today, June 12th, at 6 PM. The Actionscript Society is a VIP Flash and Flex developers’ group, meeting every second Tuesday. The best and brightest Actionscript developers from the Denver/Boulder area will be getting together to discuss development techniques, best practices, gossip about the latest news, and show off their work.

Developer groups in this community come and go, but the Actionscript Society has two special characteristics that will make it extraordinarily popular and relevant. The first is how it fits into a new developer Supergroup called Web2.0sday. At the same time, in the same building, developer groups from other disciplines will also be meeting. Today, The Actionscript Society will meet alongside a Ruby/Rails group, Ruby Tuesday. In the coming months, a mobile technology group and an AJAX group will also meet. The ultimate goal is to have an unsurpassed, information rich, cross-pollinating über group for Denver’s interactive/Web2.0 developers and enthusiasts.

The second special characteristic is booze. Free. Booze. At every meeting.

Please join us to celebrate the launch of The Actionscript Society and Web2.0sday June 12th, 6 PM. These group(s) will meet at ID345 headquarters, located at 2930 Larimer St. Denver, CO.

I don’t know what it is, but I have been buying a ton of domains over the past month. I think I get creative bursts and just have to buy buy buy. Luckily domains are relatively inexpensive….

Which brings me to my much more costly habit…shortcodes. These suckers cost $1000/month…but I seem to be buying these with almost as much fervor as the domains.

Anyone know of a good 12 step program?

UPDATE:  If you need help buying and setting up your own short codes, email me!

Next Tuesday, June 5th 12th ID345 will begin a monthly Ruby on Rails developer group (Ruby Tuesdays) as well as a Flash/Flex/RIA developer group (Actionscript Society). These events will happen simultaneously in each of our conference areas the first Tuesday of every month (forever and ever) with before and after mingling. These events will be free and open to the public. Come one, come all.

June 12th, 6:00pm
ID345
2930 Larimer St.
Denver CO 80205

http://www.id345.com/ruby

P.S. Austin is preparing to make his “famous” Ruby Red Greyhounds. Yum.

Just a reminder that the New Tech Meetup is tonight at 6:00 at the Denver Art Museum.

5 people get 5 minutes each to demo something cool to Colorado’s tech community (geeks, investors, entrepreneurs, hackers, etc).

I *just* got my new Nokia N95 in the mail. I am unboxing now and will give a full update in a few!

The ID345 posse is hard at work turning an old building in Denver’s warehouse district into our new home. We have almost 5000 square feet of building and about a 5000 square foot back yard to convert. So far we have taken down all the non structural walls to really open the space up. I am caked in dirt and sweat (yum) and probably shouldn’t be getting my keyboard dirty…that said, if anyone wants to come help, get down here to 2930 Larimer with some grubby clothes. I’ll buy you a beer.

Pictures coming soon.

We headed out on the road in our 27′ Airstream yesterday morning. We are on our way to Austin TX for SXSW. I am so excited. We hit the road at around 10am and made really good time. The truck and trailer performed famously. We got a little crazy and decided to call it a night around 3:30 am.

My buddies Dan and Adam from Morning After Records put on an amazing show last Friday. It was the CD release party for Born in the Flood, guaranteed to be the next breakout band from Denver. The always rockin and on point Photo Atlas put on a great show. The 14+ members of Nathan and Stephen were awesome. I had never seen them before and they had a really fun performance. Meese started off the evening. I’ll write a full review when I get some more time.

Almost 900 people came to the show. Amazing.

Richard Branson and Al Gore just announced the “Virgin Earth Challenge”

The Virgin Earth Challenge is a prize of $25m for whoever can demonstrate to the judges’ satisfaction a commercially viable design which results in the removal of anthropogenic, atmospheric greenhouse gases so as to contribute materially to the stability of Earth’s climate.

This sort of contest has historically been successful, the Ansari X Prize for the first non government spacecraft, the Orteig Prize for the first transatlantic flight, and the Board of Longitude was created to award a prize to the first solution to accurately determine longitude. (I just watched a great show about the Board of Longitude and the winner, John Harrison, last weekend of the Discovery Science channel…what timing!)

Late last year Branson also announced Virgin Fuels, a company focused on creating a non polluting jet fuel. Obviously Branson knows his companies and products have been responsible for creating this problem, but his dedication to stop and reverse the pollution is commendable.

Do you think this is the best way to solve the greenhouse gas problem?