JadeTower is a technology startup. We do all sorts of things. Mostly we work on Indie-Arcade. We also offer training courses in Hong Kong on interesting technologies such as Ruby on Rails and Adobe Flex. We release some of our code under open source licenses. If you would like to out more, please visit our weblog or contact us.
Make your own video games. Share them with friends or the world. Indie-Arcade gives you everything you need.
Located in Hong Kong, JadeTower East provides open source training and consulting. Public classes cover a range of technologies including Ruby on Rails, Adobe Flex, Eclipse Rich Client Platform, and more. On-site courses and personalized consulting can be arranged. Visit the JadeTower East website for more details and a schedule of current courses.
We release much of our code and training materials under open source licenses. JadeTower.org hosts these materials as well as open source projects sponsored and hosted by JadeTower.
Follow further developments on our weblogs hosted at Cubicle Muses. We write about startup news, open source licensing and technology, web programming, and other geek interests. For a more personal look at our lives, we publish Peregrinari -- a journal covering the ongoing misadventures of our global travels.
JadeTower is a small operation with a lot going on. A self-funded startup that launched in the US in 2006, JadeTower provided technical consulting on web and desktop application development by J Aaron Farr. In 2007, while William researched and laid the groundwork for Indie-Arcade, Aaron took off for Asia with his family in search of further opportunities and to assist in open source software development in Greater China.
JadeTower now has a subsidiary in Hong Kong providing open source training and consulting with new web programming classes starting in 2008. A limited beta release of Indie-Arcade is slated for 2008. While we are currently not actively soliciting for investors, partners, or employees, those of like minds not deterred by such trivialities as job openings and salary are welcome to contact us.
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William and Aaron co-founded JadeTower in 2006.
J Aaron Farr is an entrepreneur and open source evangelist. He
currently serves as a board member of the Apache Software Foundation,
having contributed to the open source Apache Avalon, Excalibur,
Incubator, and Labs projects. His prior professional experience
includes developing software for Sony Electronics and Siemens Medical
Systems.
William Taysom is Chief Scientist and co-founder of JadeTower. He's
just come to Hong Kong from Florida where he was a researcher for the
Institute of Human and Machine Cognition. Winner of the 2007
outstanding paper award from the Association for the Advancement of
Artificial Intelligence, his primary interests are programming
languages and development environments. He has a Masters of Logic and
Computation from Carnegie-Mellon University.
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