Office move

It's been a while since our last update, but we've been pretty busy (more on that later). With the investment from RCI also came a move to their newly renovated space for Rogers Ventures companies. This transformation has been quite significant, so I wanted to share it.

Those that had visited us in our old offices know that they were a bit cramped (especially the weeks leading up to the move as we grew to six). We like to think that it was a stereotypical start-up, and gives us a great "it all started in an attic" (literally) story.

First: the developer's desks. In the main room of our office, four people were in fairly close quarters. Meanwhile, Tim and I shared two sides of another small Ikea desk. Great for extreme programming, but not so great on those hot august days! :)

Workstations 1.0

Workstations 2.0

Our new workspaces are much more spacious -- enough for multiple machines and monitors and a good place to organize and post notes. Unlimited productivity, here I come!

In our old office, Tim and I shared a room with three fairly noisy servers and several pedestal servers. Not that the others had it much better; noise wasn't really containable in our space. You'll also see our enormous 12,000 BTU air conditioner at the bottom left of this photo.

Server Room 1.0

Server Room 2.0

I would say that one of the best features of our new office is the rack space. Now we can hide away our servers and not worry about tripping over the power cord! (Also we don't have to worry about blowing a fuse!)

We nick-named a portion of our old office "the idea board". This was the coffee space and the white board. Shown below is the idea board in the last few days before we moved -- when it also served as storage space for the blue boxes to be packed up with our stuff.

Idea Board 1.0

Idea Board 2.0

As you can see from the photo on the right, the size of the white board has at least tripled (it's yet to been seen whether the ideas will triple). We've also got some great space to relax and meet. The only thing left to do is decide what to do with the old idea board.