Tomorrow will mark 2 years of blogging here at "steve's blog". It's really amazing to look back at where I was in November 2004 - where the company was - and think of all the things that have happened since then. Even though CMS is about 2 months older than the blog. I'd have to say that they grew in parallel fairly effectively.

• CounterMarch Systems went from 1FTE to 3FTE. plus 1 intern
• We've delivered many successful projects
• We've developed deep skills across the board in Mach-ii and we're getting there with AS3 and Flex
• Our first Flex project is now live and have at least 2 more coming up
• Experience with Farcry has landed us a lot of work and me a couple speaking roles at CFUNITED
• Revenues up. workload up. but we're all still sitting at folding tables...with a 19" monitor and ergo keyboard on top

I've learned a lot about myself and (perhaps just as important) a lot about choosing the right people to work with. None of what I just listed would have happened without Matt. Dayne and Chris pushing to learn. to code. do build and deploy something that they are proud of.

We've managed to keep our focus. stepping slightly off the path when the skills we'd develop or contacts we'd make would help us down the road. Defining your work too narrowly or too broadly is deadly. so we've been pretty careful about who we say "yes" to. We'll see the wisdom (or foolishness) of those choices in the coming years for sure.

I have a great feeling that all of our work is starting to come together like an odd little software singularity. It's just a matter of getting some good marketing behind our already outstanding work so that more people can improve their workplace using our talents.

(steps off soapbox...thanks for reading!)