<p>Working on a startup is certainly a great challenge that has both good and bad things. One of the worst things is the amount of blog posts I&#8217;ve made on the last 6 months: 15 (fifteen!). This is almost 1 post every two weeks. As a reference point, on my last job I was writing 2 blogs posts per week :-)</p> <p>Anyway, 6 months ago I decided to take the challenge and work for a startup in Lisbon called <a href="http://www.7syntax.com">7syntax</a>. 7syntax is a young software startup with a small team of great talents. The main project we develop is called <a href="http://handivi.mobi">handivi</a>, and that&#8217;s the main motivation for this blog post.</p> <blockquote> <p>Handivi is all about you sharing experiences with everyone or just your friends from anywhere. It&#8217;s a free, easy to use application for Java&#8482; enabled phones on 3G mobile networks, where you can express yourself, create and socialize using photos, videos and messaging.</p> </blockquote> <p>The first alpha version of handivi saw the light of the world by 29th August. <a href="http://blog.cpinto.net">Celso</a> made a good job <a href="http://7syntax.com/blog/2008-09-04-welcome-handivi">showing the alpha&#8217;s main features</a>. It was a very exciting moment for all <a href="http://7syntax.com/about">the team</a> because we showed our &#8220;baby&#8221; to the world!</p> <p>With this release, we managed to gather a lot of feedback from our brave testers. That feedback is extremely useful to us, since it will guide our development efforts in the near future.</p> <p>In the meantime, I became the Lead Mobile Developer at 7syntax. This means I gathered <strong>a lot</strong> of knowledge about the <span class="caps">J2ME</span> programming, including device fragmentation problems, limitations of the current technology, under the hood details and optimization strategies. You can expect some blog posts about the things I&#8217;ve discovered, if I managed to get free time to write about them :)</p> <p>If you want to keep in touch with 7syntax and handivi, please subscribe our <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/7syntax">blog feed</a>.</p> 111 handivi-alpha 2008-09-04T17:17:00-07:00 <p>Next Saturday, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp">Barcamp</a> at <a href="http://fct.enses.org/barcamp/app/">FCT</a>. The company I work for, <a href="http://www.7syntax.com">7syntax</a>, arranged for people to share some <a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2007/4/booze-belt.jpg">booze</a> at the <a href="http://blog.cpinto.net/2008/05/barcamp-fct-warm-up.html">British Pub</a>.</p> <p>More details <a href="http://blog.cpinto.net/2008/05/barcamp-fct-warm-up.html">here</a>. See you there?</p> 104 barcamp-fct-7syntax-warmup-beers-and-you 2008-05-18T10:05:00-07:00