Now it can be told.
For the last 5 months I’ve been working with the development team on the new Timex website. We launched on Tuesday afternoon [EDIT: October 24, 2006] at 4:00 pm Pacific time, and it was kind of cool being in the "war room" listening to people report in on the speakerphone as the DNS entries propagated quickly across the net. "It’s picked up on Guardster already." "E.U., I can see the site." "Arizona here, looks good." Kinda like WarGames.[1]
Ironically, amusingly, the only people who had trouble seeing the site initially were Timex back in Middlebury, Connecticut. I didn’t stick around long enough to find out how long it took for the changes to reach their corner of the world. Being a front-end guy, there wasn’t much for me to do after they flipped the switch and went live (it’s not as though their drop-down menus were going to suddenly blow up).
Anyway. I’m relieved, and happy with the end product. Obviously a lot of people deserve credit for the successful launch, but it’s nice to know that I’ve made my mark on the world.[2]
EDIT (20061220): If you don’t believe me, look at my comments in the CSS.
- It wasn’t as tense, but that was just because there were no nukes involved. Fortunately Timex had only conventional weapons. ;-)
- No spray paint required! No fuss, no muss, no concentrating and inhaling of contents!
