Very interesting meetings... »

After doing a couple of quick fixes to whotoget.com based on actual user feedback (yeah!) this morning, I headed into the city for a couple of meetings that turned out to be very interesting/fun!

The first meeting was actually a lunch at the famous Shake Shack (I had a Shack Stack, Fies, and a chocolate shake -- about 20lbs. of food in all, yum!)...I met up with Tim Marman who is an awesome developer in the NY scene (though he's moving to Pittsburgh soon).

Tim and I share a passion for technology and for fantasy sports (especially football)...and so we can easily pass hours on end chatting about the different projects we're hacking on or the different fantasy moves we're considering (or some combination of both!)...so catching up with him is always a good time.

My second meeting was at bit.ly, where I got a sneak peak at some of the really awesome things they are working on behind the scenes...and I got to talk more tech. in general and about some of ideas for all that beautiful data bit.ly is generating.

Overall, bit.ly (and really all of BetaWorks) is an awesome place to spend any time...there's a vibe around the office that you just don't get from many other places...and you know all the people there are top-of-the-heap sorts who are working on really interesting things (nothing like knowing I'm the dumbest guy in the room every time I walk into those offices -- then again, I'm aware of the same fact for almost every room I ever walk into so...)

Anyway, bit.ly has a bunch of ideas they want to put into action, but only so many people to actually do the work right now and so there's a chance I might get to help out with some of that...so again, super exciting to me!

So even though I didn't get much actual coding done today, it was an interesting and fun afternoon (plus the weather around NY was amazing today!)...and every so often it's good to move away from the keyboard, and you know, talk to real people about stuff.

Tomorrow the family and I head off for a week long vacation...so the trend of not coding will probably continue for a bit...but I'm sure I'll still fit in a bit here and there (I gotta finish out an Android app anyway).