Back in it’s infancy, back when Midnight Ryder Technologies was just called MidnightRyder.com in the games it shipped, I used to keep a blog on here. Well, actually, it wasn’t called a blog – at the time it was called the “Developer Diary” – the name blog wasn’t in wide use yet, but developers used to have .plan files (which, at first, required the UNIX finger command to read it – I can remember fingering Jon Carmack from time to time to see what was going on with the development of Quake because I had been a huge Doom fanatic.)

Eventually I killed the Developer Diary and moved beyond it. I found LiveJournal (bleh) and instead of it begin about business, it became about personal stuff. Then I licensed the Torque engine from Garage Games, and started using their blogging system for my professionals stuff.

But I wandered away from that, and moved to just personal blogging, and some business stuff intermixed into my Twitter and Facebook timelines.

Now, I’m back where I started – Midnight Ryder Technologies now has a blog again. Well, two actually, since I didn’t want to mix my tech rants with the information I wanted to give out about the cool projects I end up doing for customers. It’s funny – over 10 years later, and here I am back blogging on the company site. Of course, things have moved on s bit since then – now I’m updating it from an iPad, not my desktop machine, and the software behind it has gotten so much better

Davis Ray Sickmon, Jr

Everyone has an opinion, and nearly everyone has a blog.  We’re no different – while we maintain a blog for projects, we also maintain a blog that’s all about technology.  Sometimes it’s rants and raves, sometimes it’s observations on the successes that technology companies are having, and sometimes it’s attempts to look off in to the future of computer technology.  And sometimes, it’s going to be downright random.

Instead of sharing one blog with the Projects, we split it the tech blog into it’s own section, rather than accidentally associate one of our projects (or our customer’s projects) with a rant about a geeky tech issue!

We work with both in-house development projects and projects for hire.  As you might imagine, we really like to get the word out there about the things we’re doing as in-house projects, but since we’re fairly well known, we also like to get the word about about what we’re doing for our customers – why not give them an extra boost in exposure whenever we can?

So this section of the website is all about the projects we work on – cool sites, apps, and games, sometimes for us, sometimes for others!

Midnight Ryder Technologies is currently doing a complete revamp of the site – keep watching, we’re finally breaking down and doing a site for ourselves that’s as cool as the sites we do for customers!

This is by no means a comprehensive look at the work we do, but it gives you an idea how diverse the business (and individuals) we work with really are, and the quality of work we do!