Donavon West

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Software Developer, Embedded Web at Barnes & Noble
Owner at HomeServerHacks.com
Owner at LiveGadgets.net

President at Extremely Digital, Inc (Self-employed)

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Donavon West’s Summary

2009 Microsoft MVP Award (Windows Home Server)
2007-2008 Microsoft MVP Award (Windows Live Development)

CTO of LiveGadgets.net, a company specializing in gadgets for Live.com and Windows Vista Sidebar. Wrote Live Search Maps (i.e. the Traffic gadget) for Microsoft.

Blog/praise/rant about Windows Home Server at http://www.HomeServerHacks.com

"It's amazing what a few lines of code, in the right place, can do." - Donavon West

Creator of ChuckToddFacts.com.

FACT: The answer is Chuck Todd. The question is irrelevant.

FACT: Chuck Todd knows how many licks it takes to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop (within a 3 lick margin of error).

Creator of DeepZoomObama.com a 10,000x10,000 interactive mosaic of Barack Obama.

Donavon West’s Specialties:

Google Gadgets, Vista Sidebar Gadgets, Widgets, JavaScript, Atlas, Ajax, HTML, C#, ASP.NET, XML, WML, SQL, Oracle PL/SQL.

Donavon West’s Experience

Software Developer, Embedded Web

Barnes & Noble

(Public Company; BKS; Retail industry)

October 2009 — Present (2 months)

I just started at Barnes and Noble working on embedded web applications. I'm afraid that the vague title is all I can tell you right now.
Owner

HomeServerHacks.com

(Internet industry)

November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)
Owner

LiveGadgets.net

(Internet industry)

November 2005 — Present (4 years 1 month)

President and lead designer/developer for LiveGadgets.net, the leading experts in live.com and Vista Sidebar gadget development.

Some of our customers include:
* Real Networks
* America Online
* Microsoft

Proponents of the Web 2.0 concept and specialists in mashups.
Visit LiveGadgets.net for more information
President
Extremely Digital, Inc (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

January 1996 — Present (13 years 11 months)

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Products/websites responsible for:

* http://LiveGadgets.net
* http://ModernYarn.com
* http://donavon.com
* http://ExploreTheStudioSpace.com
* http://VehiCROSS.net
* http://Suite927.com (WAP groupware)
* ElectronMicroscope (an Apple QuickTime atom viewer)

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