Wow, the date slipped by me earlier this month, but I just realized that www.bit-101.com is now five years old. The first experiment in the old lab is from August 24, 2001, but the site didn’t go live until September 11, 2001. Got kind of eclipsed by some other things that were going on that day.
The site has been very, very good to me. Pretty much directly due to the popularity that BIT-101 attained, I was able to walk in to some very nice jobs, write or contribute to many books, get several free trips to various parts of the world to speak to people at conferences, and have more side work than I could possibly handle. So thanks for visiting the site, telling other people about it, and saying good things. It has really changed my life.
Unfortunately, all this activity has made it so I’m not really able to do the daily experiments that got the site its popularity in the first place. I tried a new lab idea at the beginning of this year, but that didn’t quite work out either. The idea was that it would be a project-based lab, but tht inhibited me from posting simple random experiments.
I’m rethinking the blog-based lab idea again, with just one-shot experiments of whatever I’m workin on at the time. I’ve been exploring a lot of AS3 stuff these days, and even some Flex 2 stuff now. It would be great to post some of that. No promises but keep an eye out for it.