First of all, Craigslist is awesome. Ask for an A Capella group that can sing Europe’s “The Final Countdown” and 10 minutes later you have 3 responses.
We always blast “The Final Countdown” when we launch new projects. Today, we celebrated the launch of Matt Blumberg’s (CEO of Return Path) Only Once blog today with a special rendition by Wonder Voice, a local A Capella group.
Slice of Lime hosted their 10th Boulder Creative Commons last night with the theme “Time-Lapse.” The video above is the group creating our own time-lapse project during the meet up, starting with a blank chalkboard in the Slice of Lime offices.
Eric Baer spoke about his work on BoulderFlatironCam.com and Bruce Wyman (seen below) presented how the Denver Art Museum utilized time-lapse to capture the artists that participated in the current Embrace! exhibit.
More pictures and details on the event can be seen here.
Many thanks to our sponsors, Boulder Digital Arts and GoodBelly, and to everyone that participated to make this meet up a success!
Sure, we can build you a mean website, but did you know we also bowl?
Slice of Lime went out to the Westminster Brunswick Zone to lay to “roll” as they say in the biz. Heat-lamped nachos, frozen pizza, and beer were enjoyed by all.
You can view all of the pictures here. Enjoy!
Slice of Lime hosted the 3rd annual TechStars Shuffleboard Smackdown last week. The TechStars teams paired up to compete in this highly rigorous sporting event. We’re pretty sure that we’re the only ones that have used Boulder’s shuffleboard courts in about 30 years.
Thanks to all the TechStars for coming out. Your skills were impressive (including devouring 7 large pizza pies in under 5 minutes).
Two scooters were introduced to the Slice of Lime offices a couple of weeks ago and things have not been quite the same since. Keep your eyes out for Slice of Lime employees scooting around Boulder on beer runs and beware when you enter our office for drive-by scootings. Everyone at Slice of Lime helped put this video together, which incorporates the first ever documented “scoot cam” in action. A special thanks to Mike Byrd for his excellent editing, videography, and music choice. Enjoy!
Happy Holidays from the Slice of Lime workshop! Here’s a sneak peek at what happens in the Slice of Lime offices. Click here!
A big thank you to everyone whom joined us for last night’s Creative Commons. This month’s event featured a video chat with John Allsopp all the way from Australia, discussing the upcoming Web Directions North Conference.
Web Directions North, one of the world’s leading conferences for web professionals, returns for 2009 – this year in Denver, Colorado, February 2—7. http://north.webdirections.org
A bit about Web Directions North: Web Directions focuses on the professional development of web designers and developers, interaction designers, user experience professionals and other practitioners in the web arena, whether they work as a contractor, in a design agency, in small or large businesses, in government, education or the not-for-profit sector. Whatever your or your company’s role in building or managing web sites, applications or communities, Web Directions is full of practical, valuable insights, education and inspiration.
Please enjoy the holidays and watch for an announcement for the next Creative Commons event. In the meantime, join the Creative Commons MeetUp group for information on upcoming events, as well as contact with fellow members: http://webdesign.meetup.com/487/
To get in the Thanksgiving spirit, our Project Manager, Lindsay, organized a “Bake Something!” party. Everyone came to work with a homemade baked good, including two takes on scrumptious apple pie. We turned on some “Thanksgiving music” (not a large selection) and enjoyed a bunch of carbs at the end of the work day.
Thanks for organizing, Lindsay!
Tuesday night the Slice of Lime office was abuzz with a healthy crowd of interactive pros, newbies, start-ups and students. Thank you all for making it over- we loved catching up on fresh applications and opportunities, as well as demo’ing some of our latest launches. November’s Creative Commons event boasted some of the best conversations we’ve heard yet, and it never ceases to amaze us how much local talent this community holds.
We look forward to seeing you all at next month’s Creative Commons on Wednesday, December 17th. Come join us for a very special video chat with John Allsopp, who will be talking to us about the upcoming Web Directions North Conference, http://north.webdirections.org/program.
In the meantime, join the Creative Commons MeetUp group for information on upcoming events, as well as contact with fellow members: http://webdesign.meetup.com/487/
This week, we had the opportunity to attend the Adobe MAX Conference in San Francisco. We got to check out the city and to “level up” our skills around the various Adobe products that we use every day at Slice of Lime.
The major take away for me was represented in the Adobe Keynote on Monday. They are thinking of the world in 3 overlapping areas:
With this focus, the conference definitely zeroed in on their Rich Internet Application (RIAs) tools, specifically Flash, Flex, and AIR. Slice of Lime has been doing a steadily increasing amount of Flash and Flex work and our purpose for being at the conference was to extend this knowledge even further.
Adobe also offered some new tools, like Flash Catalyst, which offers a “rapid-prototype” approach to to building web applications and allows for a more cohesive workflow between designers and developers. Again, this seems very much aligned with were Slice of Lime is seeing the industry growing – iterative and highly collaborative development.
Lastly, it was great to hear about advances in Flash search engine optimization and the details on how this is accomplished. Finally, dynamic websites in Flash can start to break away from search engine optimization issues.
All in all, the conference was extremely educational and had a great atmosphere of collaboration. There was much less focus on walking “the floor” and much more focus on learning new things and getting inspired for future project work.
You can see some quick video and photos of our trip in the video below:
Just a reminder of our upcoming Creative Commons event on Tuesday, November 18th. In true Thanksgiving spirit, we’re asking everyone to bring canned food items to donate to the needy.
*And don’t forget to join the Creative Commons MeetUp group for information on upcoming events, as well as contact with fellow members: http://webdesign.meetup.com/487/.
Slice of Lime picked up 4 “No Limits” passes for Eldora, the ski resort just up the road from us in Boulder, Colorado. Employees can enjoy these passes at any time and, yes, to all of our beloved clients, you can use them, too!
Here’s to a great ski/snowboard season!
One of our new clients, The Denver Art Museum, gave us a private tour last Friday.
Our trip started with a retro lunch at Steubens in downtown Denver. After filling up on chocolate shakes and fries, we headed over to the museum to learn about their philosophy behind their installations.
What struck us most was that the approach to layout and functionality was not too different than the way we approach social websites. The Denver Art Museum has a heavy focus on community interaction. Many of the pieces require you to physically do something in order to fully experience them. There are also plenty of areas that offer the visitor ways to write comments, thoughts, and to create their own pieces of art – much like a blog community would.
We thoroughly enjoyed our visit and to get a chance to look through the eyes of the people driving the exhibits at the museum.
We also thoroughly enjoyed our trip to Pints Pub around the corner from the museum after our tour was done. 
One of the things we like to encourage across the board at Slice of Lime is creativity. Creativity presents itself in all aspects of our work from Project Management to Design to Code. We try to find ways to nourish that creativity outside of the world of web technology. A couple of weeks ago, we went to Color Me Mine down the street from our offices to create brand new coffee mugs for work.
We started with picking out our pieces:
…and then got right to work painting:
We got our pieces back today and they turned out awesome! Here’s a run down of everyone’s mugs and their morning drink of choice:
Nice work everyone!!!
After the launch of the Big Green Rabbit website earlier this week, we Slice of Limers are feeling like kids ourselves. Today, we participated in “Munchkin Masquerade” on the Pearl Street Mall, which is a 3 hour event packed with kids in costumes. Our 3 party pack bags of Hershey’s bars were gone in about 15 minutes as kids snatched them up (with the occasional “trick or treat”). Impressive.
A warm thank you to everyone whom joined us for last night’s 8th Creative Commons event at the Slice of Lime office. We had an enthusiastic showing of diverse Boulder/Denver talent, and some nostalgic surprise connections.
We invite you to bring your ideas and a friend to next month’s Creative Commons event on Tuesday, November 18th. And don’t forget to join the Creative Commons MeetUp group for information on upcoming events, as well as contact with fellow members: http://webdesign.meetup.com/487/
Spacial architecture, interior design, and color play important roles in influencing creativity, inspiration and clear thought processes. Recognizing this, Boulderspace will be capturing architectural and interior design of Boulder’s creative studios over the upcoming months. They’ve kicked off the series by exploring Slice of Lime’s workspace.
If you haven’t seen The Big Green Rabbit on PBS, you’re missing out. Slice of Lime engaged with The Big Green Company about a month ago and we’re having a blast getting to know Charlie (The Big Green Rabbit) and Isabelle.
We spent last week down at the Comcast Media Center working on a Big Green Rabbit shoot. We’re having a ton of fun with this project.
“In da Club” blasted as we delivered Mike Byrd, our amazing Flash/PHP developer, his 24th birthday cake. You’ll notice that Mike, better known as “Byrd”, is reinforcing his nickname with his shirt. You’ll also notice that he seems a bit hesitant to let anyone else near his cake.
Happy birthday Byrd!!!
Slice of Lime created the website for Wish for Wheels, an organization that gives kindergarten kids bikes on graduation day. To fully appreciate what they did and to get involved even more, we took the day off to volunteer at a “give away”.
The kids were amazing and it was extremely rewarding to see the looks on their faces when they realized that the bike was for them to keep. Congrats to the Wish for Wheels staff, University Bicycles, and the Slice of Limers for making this a success!
You can see more pictures from the day on our Flickr page here or on the Wish for Wheels page here.
In this podcast, Slice of Lime volunteers for Wish for Wheels, shows off their work on Premier Athletic Supply, and takes an educational trip to Dave and Busters.
Brad and Katie from Wish for Wheels treated the Slice of Lime team to lunch at The Rio. This was to thank us for creating their new website. Founded in 2004, Wish for Wheels is determined to make a difference for children by providing new bikes and helmets to kindergarten kids. At their first giveaway, it became clear to them that the bikes do bring health and happiness into these children’s lives.
We’re also looking forward to volunteering on May 14th and seeing the expressions on the kid’s faces when they see their brand new bikes.
Wish for Wheels is currently accepting volunteers and donations.
We started the morning off right with a sugar-filled “Madagascar” cake in celebration of our Lead Web Developer Richard’s birthday. The ensuing sugar rush afterwords was better than cup of coffee we’ve ever had. Perhaps we should have cake every morning?
Happy 30th, Richard!
It’s a Slice of Lime tradition to cue up the live performance of Europe playing “The Final Countdown” and to crank the volume whenever a new site launches. We just played two in a row today for Wish for Wheels and Premier Athletic Supply.
Something about that song (and the cheesy video) that puts a smile on your face. Congrats everyone!
It’s a pleasure to welcome our newest employee, Mack the Fish, to the team. Mack has setup his office inside of the frame of an old Macintosh Classic computer. He turned down our benefits package and instead is only requesting fresh water and fish flakes for compensation.
Welcome to the team, Mack!
Kevin and Jeff spent the day before Venture Capital in the Rockies (an event Slice of Lime sponsors every year) doing their “offsite meeting” in Beaver Creek. We reflected on the past year and what’s to come in 2008. This picture shows the magnificent view from our room as we worked through numbers and goals all day. Not a bad backdrop.
We’d like to thank all of our past and present clients for your business. We’re having a blast.
Our CEO, Kevin, celebrated his birthday today in Slice of Lime style by heading to the Rio for lunch and finishing off with a surprise giant cookie. By the time this picture was taken, all that was left on the cookie was “Happy Birth…”, which is still more or less to the point.
The Slice of Lime team had some fun this afternoon doing a video shoot for Zenie Bottle. We’ll be talking a lot more about Zenie Bottles (our latest client) on the blog soon, but one of their coolest features is how they swirl inside when you shake them.
Mike and Kevin had fun setting up the shot with the perfect lighting while trying not to be spotted in the reflection of the glass.
Our newest web designer, Travis, turned 24 today. We celebrated his birthday in style with a “Cars” birthday cake. If you look closely in the top right hand corner of this picture, you’ll see Mike running towards the cake at full speed.
Happy Birthday, Travis!
We kicked off our first Slice of Lime “Show and Tell” today. This was an internal event designed to allow people to share what they’ve been working on at Slice of Lime. There have been several projects that have come and gone without other people in our company even knowing about them.
We all grabbed burritos from Illegal Pete’s and sat back as the keyboard and mouse was passed around the table. It was pretty neat to review all of the great work that has been going on this past year. We’re looking forward to making this a regular tradition at Slice of Lime.
Slice of Lime hosted its Holiday Party at Zengo in Denver this year. An excellent time was had by all as we looked back on all of the projects we worked on this year (44) and ahead to 2008. We even got to march in the Parade of Lights for a breif period of time!
On a sunny Boulder afternoon, we took a break to play Frisbee Golf and celebrate a birthday. The stakes were high, a $50 gift certificate to iTunes. Unsuspecting citizens ran as bright colored frisbees flew at their heads.
Slice of Lime took an amazing trip down the Royal Gorge in Cotapaxi, Colorado. We spent a full day going down some serious rapids and miraculously came out in one piece. Kevin’s sister served as our trusted guide down the river, often yelling “Forward!” as seen in the photo above. Pizza and beer was devoured later.
This week, we decided to bring back some abandoned shuffleboard courts along the Boulder Creek. We purchased a bunch of “cues” and “pucks” and practiced the fine art of shuffleboarding for an hour or so. Very random and fun.
Slice of Lime sponsored Venture Capital in the Rockies this year. We took the team to Beaver Creek for some excellent skiing after the conference.