February 1, 2010

New hire: Justin

Filed under: updates — Dave @ 8:54 pm

Justin, our newest hire comes to us from Phipps & Associates, and I’m excited because he aced our new gruelling interview process (now with 1000% more coding). He’s our zillionth graduate from the University of Guelph, and the third who’s taken classes under FreshBooks’ Joe Sawada. Being from Thunder Bay originally, he’s legally required to adore hockey (we checked). Word on the street is that he passionately hates the font Comic Sans (so I might have to print up special business cards only for him).

Today he’s hard at work helping Danielle, longer term he’ll be adding functionality to our popular Billy content management system and hopefully teaching me a thing or two about network administration.

January 7, 2010

New hire: Owen

Filed under: twitter,updates — Dave @ 8:22 pm

Owen is our newest co-op for this term. We’re excited to have him not only because he’s one of the top-ranked computer science students at University of Guelph but because our team could always use more aggressive swimmers that I can talk shop with.

He comes to us highly recommended after building a time management system with Google App Engine and is going to be helping us with new media. It’s my hope that as the youngest person in the office, Owen will bring a fresh and exciting new perspective to emerging technologies like Twitter and this MTV I keep hearing the kids talking about.

Update: Owen is already tweeting.