Ethix Studios

Over the past few months we have been building a network of Twitter accounts that allow development communities to share tips and ideas to sharpen their skills. The first release was built around the Django framework and allowed users to direct message their tips, which automatically added them to the @djangotips timeline. Earlier this week we launched the second site in the Tweetips family, @csstips.

The sites are structured to allow community feedback and help followers improve in a specific area. Each applicable tweet is seen by the @csstips and @djangotips followers with credit given to the author.

We have plans to grow our family in the near future, but we're not positive which language, program or skill set we should take on next. Our questions to you is, which tips site would you most want to see offered in our next release?

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Over the past several months our team has been slaving away building not only a new site for Ethix, but refocusing our overall brand. As we continue to build from a small group, we encounter and overcome a variety of obstacles. The new site is a refresh to a brand that has been adjusted from a purely development firm to a full service firm specializing in web design and development.

We would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions on the site design.

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Our friends Jason Gaylor, Cory Wilkerson and Paul Caswell attended what we're told was one of the best events at SXSW, 20x2. Participants were given a question and asked to answer that question creatively within 2 minutes. Karen Chu offered one of the more conceptual and fun solutions to answer, bringing a few people to tears. Mario has that affect on us as well.

You can read more on Karen's blog.

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On May 11th, we packed our bags and headed to Austin, Texas to attend our first South by Southwest conference. For those who don't know, SXSW is a 22 year running, week long interactive, film, and music conference intended to expand our knowledge, introduce us to like minded creatives and avoid sleep at all costs. Overall, the conference was a productive and worthwhile trip that I'm looking forward to hitting for many years to come. Below are my thoughts, as a first timer, of what was most beneficial and things I'll do my best to avoid in future visits.

Due to my habitual procrastination on matters like these, I didn't prepare my schedule prior to arriving. This ended up being a minor issue as the printed scheduling materials were often more informative than the website. This made choosing what to attend and getting their on time extremely easy. Although I was warned by friends claiming a complete lack of organization, this was a nice contradiction and a pleasant surprise.

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