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Back in August of this year, the Full Sail Staff and Central Florida were invited to vote on Orlando’s best company. Full Sail has been named “Best Company” in the Orlando Business Journal’s 2009 Reader’s Choice Awards.

For more information about this incredible honor, please follow this link: http://www.fullsail.edu/press-room/press-releases/23006–best-company-in-the-orlando-business-journals-2009-readers-choice-awards.html

For Halloween this year our department decided to create a Deathstar for the pumpkin carving contest that has become a yearly tradition here at Full Sail. We didn’t win but we were still very proud of our effort. And since we’re all Star Wars fans, it was just a lot of fun doing it.

Deathstar Pumpkin

Full Sail Online is one of the most abbitious development efforts I have been involved in. There are many Learning Management Systems (LMS) out there but Full Sail decided to build their own… from scratch. It took the colaborated efforts of designers, curriculum developers, beta testers, and web developers to make this product what it is today.

Full Sail online is composed mainly of two sites: the student site and the course director’s site. They are both pretty self explanatory. Course directors create and manage content, quizes, tests, assignments (etc.) for the students to access and complete on their site.

This site was primarily developed in ColdFusion. We have used other technologies, like Ajax, to enhance user experience. It should be noted that most of it’s users are Mac users. This is why we have not neglected validation for browsers on those systems as well.

The developers that have worked alongside me on this effort have all been amazing. The quality of the product and the flexibility of it’s Object Oriented (OO) design are a true testament to our commitment.