Hello world. Welcome to my first blog post.
My name is Chris McPherson. I’m a software engineer and one of the founding partners of Firefly Logic, a young software company in Nashville, TN. If you’re in business in Nashville, chances are you’re directly or indirectly involved in one of a handful of the big industries that thrive here. The most prominent from where I sit are healthcare, entertainment and publishing. In the healthcare arena Nashville has HCA Healthcare, one of the largest healthcare companies in the country, Vanderbilt Medical Center and the University, Meharry Medical College and countless others. On the entertainment side, we have the Country Music Association, CMT, The Grand Ole Opry, and Historic Music Row where it all happens. For publishing there’s Thomas Nelson, the leading publisher of bibles and there are several other large religious publishing houses headquartered here.
When you’re a small independent software shop in a place like this, the opportunity to ply your trade in a wide variety of venues is enormous. And our happy band of intrepid byte crunchers has been lucky enough to be right in the thick of all this awesomeness over these last years.
I first met my co-founders while doing a extended tour of duty at HCA. We formed our company during that time and since then we’ve worked for the likes of CMA, the Grand Ole Opry, Cell Journalist, AO Smith, Shlumberger and many others. Along the way we’ve seen a lot, and learned a ton. I hope all this will translate to some occasionally interesting blog posts about technology and if that doesn’t work out, I can always talk about the places to score some killer Indian food or maybe a good cigar.
Right now, we’re in the middle of a large effort with Microsoft and CMA on a project for the upcoming CMA Music Fest, using Microsoft’s Silverlight and DeepZoom technologies. So, there’ll be a few posts about that I’m sure.
Anyway, thanks for dropping in and stay tuned, I might just say something interesting.
-Chris
