Team P’unk Avenue ++
February 26th, 2008 by Geoff 7 Comments
The other day our good friend, Mike Fleming, did yoga with us and then set up some lights and took pictures of us in the studio. We have been meaning to post them here, but before we had a chance our team has grown again.
You can now find Tom Boutell hanging out with us during the week. Tom created the original WWW FAQ, which continues to be a frequently-consulted “how-to” resource for web developers. Tom was the originator of the gd library, as well as the PNG image file format. At RealNetworks (then Progressive Networks), Tom was instrumental in the creation of RealAudio 1.0, the first streaming audio solution for the web. He has recently written a number of Facebook applications and has expertise in social media programming.
The coolest part of this story is that Tom is someone we have been hanging out with for years at Benna’s Cafe since he lives only a couple of blocks from the studio. We have been thinking about adding another developer to our team for a couple of weeks. When I ran into Tom last Wednesday at Benna’s while hanging out with my kids, he mentioned he was looking for work. By Thursday night at 10pm, Tom agreed to join the team!
Chalk another one up for Jane Jacobs’s belief in the value of spontaneous interactions in the city.
February 26th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Congrats to P’unk Ave and Tom!
This kind of serendipity is what makes life worth living.
Special thanks to Geoff for marking this post title with a ++.
February 26th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
That is flippin’ awesome! Yay for Tom and P’unk Ave!
February 26th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Now that’s a resume!
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:55 pm
After this photo was taken you all came thumping down, while Rick gracefully floated up out of the shot. Stop pretending like that didn’t happen.
March 25th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Am just seeing this now. Awesome.
Tom: I’m in ur studio, addin’ mah skillz?
May 23rd, 2008 at 4:57 am
@ Tom Boutell,
does this mean that your software-products are no longer developed /supported ( purchased mapedit 4 recently ) your own website http://www.boutell.com seems to be for sale..
Kurt
May 27th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Hello Kurt,
Ouch! Yes, my domain registration lapsed for an hour or two a few days ago- a long stupid story involving post office boxes, too much spam filtering and that comfortable illusion of eternity that a five-year domain name registration can give you. (;
Unfortunately Network Solutions was very quick to put up a placeholder page… fortunately, they were also very quick to restore my DNS to normal when I paid up damn quick, as you can well imagine.
I am, obviously, still adjusting to the rhythm of maintaining boutell.com as a part time endeavor while working full time at P’unk. But I remain very much committed to both sites, and there will be new and interesting things happening on Boutell.Com over the coming year. Mapedit and Wusage are still very much supported – both are quite mature products, but that didn’t prevent me from successfully releasing Mapedit 4.0 back in November, which has been quite well received.
Thanks for your concern – entirely justified when someone commits a major goof like letting their domain lapse, even for half a day. (: