Joshua Blount - A human learning

For 2.5 years I worked as an employee at Canonical on Ubuntu One, a product offering focusing on syncing data between your computers and back up to the "cloud".

My role was primarily front end development, but I was able to play a part in early discussions about what Ubuntu One would later become as well as how to communicate new features to our enthusiastic audience.

For this site we had a huge team spanning multiple disciplines. I wrote a majority of the HTML and CSS working along side Canonical's internal design team over the course of approximately 3 redesigns. I also worked in the Django views, some of the simpler bits of Javascript in the web apps, and (on previous versions of the site) wrote significant portions of the copy.

More recently I worked on mobile CSS and styling to make better use of the website from Android and iOS devices.

Videos & screeencasts

Working on Ubuntu One also provided me opportunities to try out new things, such as producing video to show off new features. Here are two examples:

Perpetually half-finished, joshuablount.com has been the my home on the internet for the past 6-8 years. Current version is supplied by a Django site with more features hidden (that's the half-done part) than showing.

As you can see above I bought into the combination of Luke Wroblewski s mobile first as well as Ethan Marcotte's responsive webdesign for the latest version of the site.

Somewhat recently I was involved with the re-launching of a church. It's named Engaging Life and as luck would have it we also needed a website.

For this I was responsible for the entirety of the site. New code was written for a blog engine, podcast feed, and per series custom css styles (check out Dear Ephesus, Give Me Faith or This is the Year) as well as the branding and layout of all the pages all written using Python and the Django web framework.

Video

I also do infrequent video production for Engaging Life here are a few examples

Commisssioned Beyond Borders is a missions organization that is focused on

Releasing the awesome potential for missions found within the local church through training, strategic alliances and short-term missions.

I've worked with organization head Buddy Walker for a few years on various projects and offered my help when I saw that they could use it.

Everything here is my work, outside of the photography, logo and the ongoing event fliers. The site is also built on top of the Django framework and required a custom event system as well as some minor integration with Google Docs for registering interest in upcoming events.

Beyond ongoing updates for the website I also occasionally consult CBB on their web strategy (and they occasionally listen).