Done yesterday (20110631 Tu)

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Good day? Yeah. My shoulder got noticably better (except for the hour or so between when the naproxen started wearing off and when I got home to take more), and Ricoh's eWriter Solution website went live!!! Now I can talk about what I've been working on for the last year! More on that later. It's cool. I'll have one to demo at the Starport party on Saturday.

And I was pretty productive code-wise, which made a nice distraction from the pain.

No walk, though -- it was raining. And I got to bed about an hour later than I intended to. But on the whole, good.

More links in the raw notes, as usual.

Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to triplets hofdave, catalana, and madtom_o_bedlam!!!!!! Have a great one!!!

At last it can be told

So, as of this morning, I can finally talk about what I've been working on for the last year. Basically, it's a "business-oriented" tablet that's designed to be a replacement for a form on a clipboard. It costs a business about $2/page to process a form. We can do it for a tenth that cost.

Ricoh Introduces the eWriter Solution | ews.ricoh.com

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 1, 2011 ─ Ricoh Company, Ltd., a global leader in digital office innovations, today introduced its new eWriter Solution: a business-class tablet with back-end services designed to improve business efficiencies by moving paper processes online. The company also announced that the device and services will be offered through its new business unit, Ricoh eWriter Solutions (EWS).

Ricoh Builds a Tablet Meant to Get Some Paper Out of Your Work Life. Symblogogy: Ricoh's eWriter Combo Solution Automates Knowledge Management. eChannelLine - Ricoh Introduces next-gen business tablet for the channel. Ricoh launches eWriter package: Another stab at the paperless office. Ricoh Wants to Kill Paper Forms, Forever - Gizmodo

I've mostly been working on the code that synchronizes documents between the tablet and the server, although the last few months I've been writing the framework for the factory diagnostics, and along the way I've also written much of the code that converts back and forth between PDF and our internal format.

We're having a party at the Starport on Saturday; I'll have one to demo.