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Last week the team at SimpleFlame decided to surprise Jason Tinnin before his actual birthday,  January 19th. Although we enjoyed a great pizza party, there was no cake. The birthday cake was to be a surprise from Jason's lovely wife Amy and reserved for his true birthday, which was today. As a surprise to all of us and even to Jason, Amy thought carefully about the selection of exactly what kind of cake to get. It couldn't be just any cake, it had to be the perfect cake. So, I thought I would blog about it.

If you haven't heard the story, Jason and I love giving each other a hard time, all the time. We are both type A personalities and are hyper competitive with one another - it simply brings out the best in us and what we are all about at SimpleFlame - hard work while having fun. We both enjoy golf and that is where everything is left out on the table.  In 2010, Jason played some of the best golf in years.  Quite frankly, we have had some rounds come down to the last couple of holes. Handicaps make things as fair as they can be and it sets the stage for us. I can't really describe it. But it is such a blast for both of us, especially when its really hard to have a little time to ourselves as we run and operate our businesses.

Needless to say, Jason is a PC guy while I'm a Mac guy. Our latest bets involve stickers and the rest is history! Notice that there are only two stickers on the laptop.  However, the type mentions 3 golf rounds.  Here's a sneak peak of a new colorful sticker that will be applied soon...

As a creative I'd like to give Amy a total thumbs up on her creativity and selection. Amy, you picked the perfect cake, the Apple Cake!  The team here at SimpleFlame all had so much fun with it. And lastly, Jason, I look forward to many more golf rounds, many more business ideas, and many more opportunities to bust your chops. To a great friend and business partner, Happy Birthday!

Your bud,

Cesar

 

SimpleFlame is proud to announce a new business venture that has been in the works for over a year, its called Kiyuco.com. Kiyuco.com is a membership site providing Adobe Business Catalyst video tutorials to Business Catalyst Partners all over the world.  Our tutorials are different compared to other online resources in that they have practical application, provide you step-by-step instruction, and allow you to think creatively about tools, widgets, modules, and other functions that make you a better designer or developer.

SimpleFlame has been lucky to participate in some of the coolest and most complicated Adobe BC integrations, and with that kind of experience, we have learned a lot along the way. Clients and customers from all over the world have contacted us for consulting, support, training, and high-level BC Expert knowledge. Sharing that knowledge and empowering BC Partners to take the Adobe BC platform to the next level is something we are very passionate about. Although Business Catalyst has come a long way, we feel that it is only the beginning with much better things to come. And that is why we branded and created Kiyuco.com, the hub for BC education, to do our part and create awareness for our platform of choice.

Kiyuco launched a successful beta release last week. We had an overwhelming response of collaboration, interaction and feedback. This information was tremendously positive, which reinforced what we set out to accomplish. Our mission to educate other BC professionals with master tricks and tips, via practical and well thought out video tutorials has become a reality.

And of course, Kiyuco.com was built on Adobe BC, we wouldn’t have done it any other way. There is a lot of advanced technology going on with the website and how it handles the user-experience behind the scenes. That topic is meant for another time and another blog post. However, Jason and I will be unveiling Kiyuco at Adobe MAX 2010 later this month. We have been invited to speak and talk about project case studies. The Kiyuco.com project will certainly be a part of our presentation.

I wanted to take the time to thank all of the SimpleFlame team for all their hard work and crazy schedules these past couple of weeks leading up to our launch. And I also wanted to thank everyone that participated in the beta release. Your feedback and participation was priceless.

If you haven’t already, please visit Kiyuco.com… we have a feeling you are going to love what you see.