Randy Charles Morin History
Randy Charles Morin History
Historical events in Randy Charles Morin's career.
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Copyright 2002-3 Randy Charles Morin and Rapid Spiral Development Inc.
2005-12-05
R|mail surpases 10,000 subscriptions
Eight months after it was released, R-mail surpasses 10,000 subscriptions.
2005-11-22
Feedster #20
Feedster ranks Destroy All Malware #20 in their top 500 most interesting and important blogs.
2005-10-31
R-mail.org goes live
R-mail transferred from KBCafe to R-mail.org domain.
2005-10-20
Bubbleshare Launch Day!
Bubbleshare launches. Randy was the original development manager of BubbleShare, but left prior to the launch.
2005-09-23
KBCafe revenues exceed $100
KBCafe daily revenues exceed $100 USD from various sources including AdSense.
2005-08-25
R|mail surpases 1000 users
Four months after it was released, R|mail surpasses 1000 active users.
2005-08-15
Feedster #55
Feedster ranks Besting Adwords #55 in their top 500 most interesting and important blogs.
2005-06-23
The RSS Blog surpasses 1000 subscribers
As reported by FeedBurner. If you count subscribers to the secondary feed, the number is much higher.
2005-05-30
KBCafe search goes live
Public release of KBCafe search.
2005-04-24
R|mail goes live
Public release of R|mail.
2005-05-24
Lemontonic sells for $15 million
Lemontonic sells its online dating business for $15.2 million.
2004-12-28
Feedster Hacker
Randy wins the Feedster Hacker developer contest.
2004-05-03
Lemontonic
Lemontonic launches new online dating application.
2004-01-12
Dude, Check This Out!
Dude Research releases Dude, Check This Out!, Beta 2.0.
2003-12-17
Randy Morin day...
Both David Winer, author of RSS and SOAP and Marc Canter, author of Flash highlight Randy Charles Morin on their blogs.
2003-12-08
Averick Consulting Incorporated
Averick Consulting was incorporated. I am a founder and a board member.
2003-08
Cover Article in Hardcore Visual Studio.NET
My article on writing a C# Web browser is featured on the cover of this exclusive $25 USD per copy magazine.
2003-07-16
Opencola Disappears
Opencola.com disappears from the Internet.
2003-06-03
Celest Diane Nacar Morin Born
2003-04-28
Dude Research Incorporated
Dude Research was incorporated. I am a founder and a board member.
2003-03-13
Managed C# vs Unmanaged C# on ComputerWorld.com
My articles appears without my persmission on the ComputerWorld.com Website. ComputerWorld says that I should be honoured to be published by them and that they don't have to pay me a cent. They eventually removed the article, but refused to pay me. I uncovered they did the same with at least a dozen other authors.
2003-03-12
Rapid Spiral Development Incorporated
Rapid Spiral Development was incorporated. I am the founder and a board member.
2003-02-07
Resigned from Opencola
I resigned from Opencola. My last day was Feb 11th
2002-12-27
Opencola Layoffs
Worse day of my life as I had to layoff most of my team at Opencola. The venture capitalist, Battery pulled the plug and we had to reduce staff to preserve the little cash we had left.
2002-11-05
Opencola PRO 1.0 Released
The Opencola browser is released. We never sold a copy.
2002-08
ACCU reviews Programming Windows Services
The Association of C & C++ Users reviews my book, Programming Windows Services.
2002-05-15
Offer of Employment from Opencola
I quit SportMarkets when I received this offer. I was hired as a Development Manager.
2002-03
SportMarkets Exchange Launched
1X launched their SportMarkets exchange. The exchange allowed online sportbooks to layoff every bet on the exchange, eliminating risk. The exchange traded thousands of positions across about a dozen Websites.
2002
Most Valuable Profession Award by Microsoft
This was the second time I was given the MVP award. Microsoft offered the award again, but I refused it on the grounds that they refused to ship a JVM with XP.
2001-11-05
ProX Exchange Launched
1X launched their professional trading exchange. The exchange allowed professional traders to hedge their positions against each other and limit risk. The exchange was dismantled after one trade was executed in the first month.
2001-03-21
Offer of Employement from SportMarkets
SportMarkets later became 1X Inc. I was hired as the Lead Architect and was later retitled Chief Architect. We opened our offices at 19 Duncan a month later.
2001-03
Book on Cover of Windows Developer Journal
My book, Programming Windows Services appears on the cover of the magazine Windows Developer Journal.
2000-12-06
724 threatens Legal Action
"If you [Randy] do not do so [abide], then 724 will pursue its full legal remedies against you and against any employer [MobileQ] or other person that may become involved." They claimed that since I was responsible for the design and implementation of most of their servers and intimately familiar the rest of their servers, that I could replicate their entire product offering at MobileQ. MobileQ didn't appear on 724's internal Competitive Landscape document. A few weeks later, another 724 employee is allowed to join MobileQ.
2000-11-22
Offer of employment from MobileQ
My cousin was assistant to a senior Vice-President of MobileQ. She help me get this offer (and many others).
2000-11-02
724 added to TSE 100
724 is added to The Toronto Stock Exchange's TSE 100 Index in the Industrial sector.
2000-09-13
724 acquires Spyonit
This is the largest acquisition 724 made where I was consulted in the technical due diligence.
2000-08-21
724 Paid Leave
724 gave me a six-week fully paid leave of absense starting the next day. I was going to quit and enjoy a trip around North America. Instead, 724 gave me six-weeks paid leave. I returned on Octover 6th, 2000.
2000-08-17
724 Options Vest
My second batch of 724 options vest. I sold them almost immediately.
2000-08-04
COM+ Unleashed Published
I authored about one half of this book. I sold the content to Sams and was never mentionned in the book.
2000-07-28
724 Lookup Expires
I immediately sold the first batch that had previously vested.
2000-06-03
Randy Brayden Morin Jr. Born
2000-04-18
Programming Windows Services published
I authored the entire book for Wiley.
2000-03-30
724 acquires YRLess
This is the first acquisition 724 made where I was consulted in the technical due diligence.
2000-03
SVN All-Time High $345
724 (SVNX) traded as high as $345 the TSX and $240 on NASDAQ. Because of the 10-1 reverse split that's actually $3450 post split or 1000 times higher than it traded three year later.
2000-01-28
724 Solutions IPO
I was on my way to my broker when the news of the IPO was made public.
2000-01-03
724 relieved me of duty
I was relieved for writing an easter egg in the FSP alerts product. The leave lasted one day.
1999-11-30
BMO's Veev Live
I was the technical lead in deploying and supporting Veev. I babysat Veev for several months until a proper support team was created.
1999-09-16
COM/DCOM (Japanese) published
I authored about one quarter of this book. It was translated from my original English work.
1999-08-20
COM/DCOM (Korean) published
I authored about one quarter of this book. It was translated from my original English work.
1999-08-17
724 Options vest
My first batch of 724 options vest. I couldn't do anything with them as we were not public yet.
1999-06-22
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Programming Unleashed
I authored a couple chapters of this book.
1999-05-13
BMO's Veev Beta
I was the technical lead in deploying and supporting Veev. I babysat Veev for several months until a proper support team was created.
1999-04
COM/DCOM Unleashed Published
I authored about one half of this book.
1999
Most Valuable Profession Award by Microsoft
This was the first time I was given the MVP award.
1998-11-20
Waite Group's COM/DCOM Primer Plus Published
I authored about one quarter of this book. It was my first.
1998-08-12
Hired by 724 Solutions
I joined 724 as a Software Developer. My first day was Monday, August 17th. I left RPMTec, 724's sister company, to join 724. I later become a development manager and was official named a key employee of the company.
1998-01-28
Adelaine Alyssa Nacar Morin Born
1996-09-19
Bought my First House
1996
Completed ABO Ticketing Kiosks
The original ABO was written by somebody else, but was deployed in only a handful of theatres, as it was quite awful. I rewrote it and it is now installed in close to half of the movie theatres in North America.
1994-06-25
Married Bernadette Nacar
1992-08-25
MiddleWorld Software Registered
I registered my first company, MiddleWorld Software.