rmxdave == david strack

I love designing websites, applications, recording music and video, and coming up with new ideas. I'm a big gadget nerd. My skills are in business software development (VB/ASP/ADO.NET) and website design (D/XHTML, CSS, JS, PHP, MySQL).

Currently working on a bunch of webOS applications. RMX Apps delivers high-quality apps for Palm's webOS family of smartphones (currently the Pre and the Pixi).

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Changes to my personal life and business coming in 2010

It’s that time of year again where we all start thinking about what we’ve accomplished the past twelve months and what the next twelve have to offer. 2010 is going to be a huge year for me. I’m going to skip the attempts at a witty introduction and pop straight into the list.

  1. I’m getting married to my lovely fiancee, Sarah, in June. That’s a huge change, obviously. She won’t find out where she will be teaching until May, so as of right now we have literally no clue where we will be living. It could be anywhere in the country. Originally, I had a job lined up in Germantown but its beginning to look like that is not as certain as it once was. Odds are we will end up somewhere in Southeastern Wisconsin, though, which is exactly where I want to be.
  2. I’m changing many aspects of Drivefive, my freelance design and development business. My rates will be changing and I will be more actively pursuing clients. In the past I just took the work as it came but its time to begin making a name for myself and earning some serious cash now that my largest project yet is coming to an end.
  3. On January 1st, I will open the “doors” of RMX Apps, my mobile development house. My first app, Cabbie, has been in beta for a few weeks and already over 2,100 people have downloaded the trial. I’m getting ready for some significant improvements to the product and I’ll be introducing it into Palm’s App Catalog.
  4. As far as college goes, I’m still on track to graduate next December. The tentative plan is to take my remaining courses via consortium at UW Milwaukee next fall. Sarah should be teaching full time then so we should be okay with me only working part-time for a few more months.
  5. I plan to consume massive amounts of Mexican food. This is not a change from previous years.

It’s a little scary and very exciting to think that I have no idea where I will be living, where I will be working, and what life will be like one year from now. It will probably be the biggest change of my entire life and I’m super stoked!

These next few weeks will be spent closing websites I no longer run, preparing new ones, and finalizing Cabbie for primetime!

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