Comments on: Full-Time Startup: Skribit Week 2

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Full-time Startup: Skribit Week 30 (Coding, Coding, Coding) — PaulStamatiou.com — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:00:12 +0000

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By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:13:59 +0000

Somehow became your twitter buddy. I work from home too. I totally get what you are saying about the separation between bedroom and office.

Will you reorganize my place? What type of work are you doing for Skiribbit?

By: Brian Dusablon

Brian Dusablon — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:51:33 +0000

Nice work on the office transition, Paul. I did the same thing when we had our apartment several years ago. My office was in the “dining room,” facing AWAY from the TV and PS2.

More recently, we just moved into a new home, and I have the luxury of a 10×10 enclosed office with two windows built into the garage. Wood flooring as well.

I can’t wait to set it up and I’ll shoot you some pics.

Cheers.

By: Summer

Summer — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:26:33 +0000

Really love what you’ve got going here, Paul. Total inspiration! I’m hoping to be doing something like this one of these days… :)

By: Christen Dybenko

Christen Dybenko — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:03:16 +0000

The new set up looks great Paul. Thanks for the tip on the Konigi stencils. They’re awesome!

By: Jem

Jem — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:45:29 +0000

Nice bed sheets ;)

I read your first post on this, and now this one, and I still don’t know how you manage to concentrate. I don’t officially work Fridays so if I’m at home, I sit down hoping to get some of my personal projects done, and yet I find myself playing with the cats, surfing the Internet and even(!) doing the housework. Don’t think I’d ever be able to work full time from home.

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:31:48 +0000

Ahhh. OmniGraffle :). Email in to omnigraffle@omnigroup.com—we’re all happy to answer questions. And yes, graffletopia is AWE-sum.

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:52:20 +0000

:-) I remember watching the episode of The Screen Savers as he was on and accessed the Internet for the first time since he got out of jail.

By: Dahan

Dahan — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:29:26 +0000

Hey Paul,

I was wondering what startup (?) really is..

By: Chanux

Chanux — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:02:24 +0000

I’ve tried to unclutter my room so many times. Usually I end up with a pleasant surrounding. But few hours after…..lets forget it.

And I wonder how geeks managed to learn before Google :)

By: Mason Sklut

Mason Sklut — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:45:14 +0000

Nice organization!

By: Akshay

Akshay — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:12:21 +0000

Hey Paul, Really like the new office setup.

I am also busy working on my startup as you already know. Also backed by ROR, I started Rails in july and I love it. One thing I found valuable in terms of getting ahead is finding a buddy who has a been programming in ruby/rails for sometime. In my case my friend had been playing with it for more then a year. So bugging him for help really saved me a bunch of time. Google is great for the most part but coding with a buddy is much more efficient.

Well I am a IM/tweet away if you ever need help :)

Cheers

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:17:43 +0000

I recently moved my desk from my bedroom and out into the living room…best move I have ever made.

By: Sharvil Shah

Sharvil Shah — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:56:15 +0000

Looks like you are a Kevin Mitnick fan?

By: annie

annie — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:15:47 +0000

I kinda just learned by trial and error and reading their forums.

http://forums.omnigroup.com/forumdisplay.php?f=4

I think it’s super intuitive and quick to make things. Also you can make your own stencils easily for objects you use over and over (e.g. a Skribit stencil with a “Suggesitons?” tab, the Skribit lightbox, etc)…plus check out http://graffletopia.com for all that’s out there already.

Your best tools will be “Copy as PDF” to resize groups of objects including the text and the Apple key when you’re resizing something to temporarily turn off the snapping.

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By: zack Harvatine

zack Harvatine — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:41:39 +0000

I’ll take the mustang cobra brakes! lol
Its a good idea to declutter, my room is way to cluttered.

By: Dev

Dev — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:34:42 +0000

Hey! I am PHP Developer. Regular Passive reader & subscriber of your blog. Its interesting reading your posts.
And coming to this post thats a master peice of working around things…
I hope one day i would make my apartment like yours… :-)
And Wish U All the Best with your work!

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:58:23 +0000

I think I’d spend way too much time in the break room!

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:36:42 +0000

Oh wow thanks! I actually had this bookmarked but never even thought about it. This seems pretty badass. do you know of any omnigraffle tutorials? i’m pretty much a beginner

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:25:38 +0000

Yup, that is coming out very soon (1-2 weeks). I finished coding up the customizer for it, we just need to clean up some other things and release everything as a substantial update to Skribit.com

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:24:42 +0000

I’ve actually been using Fancy Zoom since the first week it was released.. which was Feb 2008, almost a year now. ;-)

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:23:37 +0000

yep that’s it. highly recommended by me. i just wish it had a dimming function. it is BRIGHT. I didn’t think it would bother me as it’s in my living room but it’s pretty annoying when watching a movie, etc

By: John Dyer

John Dyer — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:54:49 +0000

Hey, great post. I just started using skribit on my own blog and was wondering if that little suggestions tab you have on your site was available publicly?

Anyways, thanks and keep up the great work.

By: annie

annie — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:50:16 +0000

Paul, have you looked at Yahoo’s Omnigraffle Stencil Kit? I like it a lot. http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/wireframes/