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We're Moving!

Out West Media LLC (Nebraska) is becoming Cultivate Now LLC (Wisconsin)

Jonathan Sharp has moved to Three Lakes, WI. Fear not, he will continue doing the same type of web development work under his new brand Cultivate Now LLC (since Wisconsin isn't as "Out West" as Nebrsaka was).

Jonathan Sharp returns to freelancing full time

Jonathan Sharp is back and freelance web development full time again. If you have a project you'd like to get a free quote for, please contact me.

Jonathan Sharp joins appendTo

Jonathan Sharp, has joined with fellow jQuery Team Member, Mike Hostetler in founding appendTo - The jQuery Company to provide enterprise level Consulting, Training and Support services to the jQuery Community.

14 Days of jQuery - Site Launch

Jonathan Sharp, member of the jQuery Team, worked with Omaha local design agency Oxide Design Co. on building The 14 Days of jQuery site for the launch of jQuery 1.4. Oxide was a sponsor of the event and managed all design and creative elements of the site with Jonathan and the other jQuery Team members being responsible for implementation.

Jonathan additionally gave a presentation for The 14 Days of jQuery on jQuery In The Enterprise.

jQuery November Meetup - Omaha, NE

Jonathan Sharp presented on using jQuery and events including custom events and event delegation. More details are available at jQuery Omaha Meetup page.

StackOverflow Dev Days - Austin, TX

Jonathan Sharp is presenting a 50 minute talk on jQuery for the Austin event. More details are available at the StackOverflow Dev Days Austin event site. Jonathan is one of the many jQuery Team members presenting during the Dev Days conference series happening in numerous cities.

jQuery Omaha Meetup

Out West Media and jQuery Team member Jonathan Sharp are pleased to sponsor the Omaha jQuery Meetup with the inaugural event on October 7th with venue and food being provided by our good friends at BrightMix. For more details check out the Omaha jQuery Meetup page and be sure to participate in future events.

jQuery Refactoring - jQuery Conference 2009

Jonathan Sharp is presenting jQuery Refactored at jQuery Conference 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

jQuery Cookbook - O'Reilly Books

Jonathan Sharp authored two chapters for the jQuery Cookbook (O'Reilly Media) released November 15, 2009.

Kansas City Web Core

Jonathan Sharp will be presenting on jQuery at Tuesday's Kansas City Web Core meeting at 6:00PM. More details may be found here.

Silicon Prairie News Intervew

Jonathan Sharp was interviewed by Silicon Prairie News about his switch to freelancing and starting Out West Media. Be sure to check out the video and get a glimpse into the happenings Jonathan Sharp and Out West Media.

Creative Capital Pitch Session 2 Finalist

Jonathan Sharp is a finalist again for the InvestNebraska Creative Capital Pitch Session for his idea called a Digital Customer Assistant™ which provides location specific information for retailers to customers personal devices such as an iPhone or BlackBerry.

Out West Media Volunteering at BIGOmaha

Jonathan Sharp was more than happy to help out with Silicon Prairie New's BIGOmaha event which took place May 7-8th. It was a fabulous event that had a top rated A+ list of speakers. Be sure to look for BIGOmaha 2010 returning to Omaha next year.

jQuery xmlDOM Plugin Released

Out West Media released a new jQuery Plugin called xmlDOM for parsing and converting strings of xml into a DOM object.
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Out West Media Attending South by Southwest 2009

Jonathan Sharp and Out West Media will be attending the Interactive conference at South by Southwest 2009 in Austin, TX. If you're planning on attending drop us a line so we can meet up!

Creative Capital Pitch Session Finalist

Jonathan Sharp is a finalist in the InvestNebraska Creative Capital Pitch Session for his idea called OpenRelation which addresses the four common tasks of: repetitive data entry, relationship management & propagation, data synchronization, and service discovery across blogs, social networks and web sites.

Jonathan will give a 5 minute presentation Thursday, February 12th at Nomad Lounge in downtown Omaha.