We just had Jack Johnson's Kokua Festival go on here in Honolulu, Hawaii which was a super good time (check out the sprout created in partnership with Kanu Hawaii). I always think it's real funny to see people wearing shirts of the bands that are playing at the concert they're seeing. Really, we get it. You just paid $50 in TicketMaster fees, I know you're a die-hard Jack Johnson fan. No need to wear the shirt to prove it.

I mention this, not to confuse you dear blog reader, but to admit I'm guilty of a similar, and possibly nerdier, atrocity. Let me explain. We just announced the Sprout SDK today, which I'm very stoked on. This will allow developers to create their own Sprout components and integrate them into Sprout.

On the Sprout SDK developers page, we needed a signup form very quickly. I thought about programming a signup form, creating a new database table, deploying the code to the server...just to collect Sprout SDK signups. I wasn't too excited to program this form, it just seemed soooo 2007. Then, those guys at the Kokua concert popped into my head and I realized I had to create a sprout to accept SDK signups so users can develop their own sprout components for use in other sprouts. And, then in my groggy haze I realized, I am them and they are me. And then the universe imploded on itself.

Hey Sprouters,

I would say Happy St. Patty's day but it would be two days late. Although you should still be wearing green today just to cover all your bases -- as Lorna gave me a good pinch regardless of what CNN says!

Anywho, we are going to have a short downtime tomorrow (Tuesday, 3/18) at about 11-11:15am PDT. It should really only be for a minute or two, but we wanted to give you the heads up just in case. Sorry for the late notice and hope we don't disrupt the excellent sprouting that has been going on.

Oh hello,

My name is Rob and I live in beautiful Honolulu, Hawaii, Planet Earth and I'm lucky enough to work for Sprout. I do various development things using Drupal and Flex, some design and a little project management.

I finally had a breather a few weeks ago and sat down to build my first complete sprout. It sounds pretty funny to say I built my first sprout a few weeks ago since I've been working at Sprout for over a year. But, we've all had our heads down for so long, meticulously testing and developing each little piece, that I had to take a step back and look at Sprout Builder as an end-user, not a developer. I think Sprout Builder is one of those things where you don't really realize it's potential until you take 5 minutes and start messing around.

So, I'll set the scene for you: It's about 9pm after a long, gnarly day of coding and I'm pretty burnt out and ready to call it a day (or night I guess). I'm wearing the mandatory Sprout Hawaii office uniform, which consists of OshKosh B'Gosh overalls, a sleeveless turtleneck rashguard, one pair of Tevas, and a corduroy fannypack. As I was pulling the other half of my ham sandwich (the standard Sprout company rations) out of my fannypack, the thought occurred to me that it'd be fun for everybody in the company to have a sprout battle to see who could make the coolest sprout.