I can’t express how much fun I had with Mat & Sean (& Red Bull energy drink) making this app.

The only excuse that I can offer for the delay for making this news public (months later) is that I’ve been extremely busy and it’s only been recently that I’ve had the mental oxygen to begin writing again. Here are some of the projects that have been keeping me away from blogging:

Power2Switch: While I resigned my CTO position at the company in October, the company remains a very active client to this day. In last couple of months, I’ve helped them improve the Django infrastructure I created over the summer and the company is now serving customers in a more markets than ever before. We’ve increasingly automated the backend, allowing Power2Switch to more responsively serve more customers while it extends its offerings into additional markets and states.

Meeps: In October, I began working with an old friend on a new product he was building in Boulder. The result is Meeps, an iOS application for topical conversations with anyone in the world. Working with the Meeps team, I had a blast pushing the envelope of iOS development to implement their vision for group conversations. iOS users: Get it from the App Store now.

Fresh Comics: Windows Phone 7 became the next major platform for Fresh Comics with an initial release of the app on the Windows Phone Marketplace back in January. The Windows Phone launch was the most successful thus far, and the WP7 application remains under active development along with its iOS and Android siblings. WP7 users: Get it from the Windows Phone Marketplace.

Research clients: Over the past several months, I have helped researchers create tools for understanding language on Twitter and I built an experimental workbench for survey researchers. The beginning of this year saw a major revision to the SMS Bot text messaging system as it is now being deployed in medical contexts to better understand how patients recover after surgeries and other major operations.

2012 is shaping up to be a promising year as the external work pipeline fills up and I plan ahead for developing more internal products. I’ll do my best to avoid another long hiatus and get back to updating this space with useful content as time permits.