Remix of oshell dot calm

aEon has owned the domain name oshell.com since 1994, while employed at The Learning Company. Around 1997 while working there I was befriended by the lead engineer on the software project for a CD ROM based product that was sold over the shelves at Egg Head and Comp USA (may the latter rest in peace). I was content to do rapid interface design mockups to bridge the gap between my department (then the graphics division) and her department, which was programming and engineering. The résumé building project was a real fork in the road of my life, although I didn’t realize it at the time. She taught me several things about HTML. I absorbed all the information she taught me and discovered a new interest. I decided to become a developer.

I had written some rudimentary applications in Lingo in Macromedia Director, and I continued to develop that skill, but the web opened up my eyes to a new set of possibilities. These the words my mentor bestowed on me: “No one wants to to anything unless it’s connected to a database” turned out to be very important indeed in shaping my choices.

oshell dot calm has had many incarnations over the years, from plain html, to images cut into slices (ahh, fireworks), to CSS pushed content, and finally a fully flexed version of the site. Pure FLEX, with the creation of a few elements in illustrator, the creation of animated parts as separate swf files, and of course a fully fledged data connectivity that uses the standard web 2.0 http request model for gathering data from a mySQL database that is pushing content - which is today’s release.