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Co-founders Jonathan Sharp & Mike Hostetler tell the appendTo story
“It’s actually kind of fun looking back,” former freelance developer Jonathan Sharp remarked. “When I was first starting [Out West Media], I believe you asked me, ‘Where do you see yourself in five years?’ I was like, ‘Same thing.'” One year later, some things are still the same: Jonathan still lives in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, he…
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PR/Marketing Intern, Developer, and more
With our focus to cover our region’s entrepreneurs, innovators, and creatives, we hear not only about the cool things organizations are doing now but those that they hope to achieve in the future. To do so, they’ve expressed their need for talented individuals who “get it.” We told them that we think we have this…
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Local developer contributes to jQuery book, joins jQuery team
In my interview with Jonathan Sharp a few months ago, he mentioned he was currently contributing to a manual being written on jQuery, a fast and concise JavaScript Library which simplifies the JavaScript language. I received an email from him earlier this week with the news that it’s been published and is now on Amazon…
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SPN interviews Jonathan Sharp of Out West Media
Last summer, Jonathan Sharp undertook two new major responsibilities, one right after the other. In June, his wife gave birth to their fist child, and one month later, he left his job at Union Pacific to found Out West Media, a web development business. I recently sat down with Jonathan to hear about this transition,…