I am a Christian (yes, dorky, even), husband to my beautiful wife & best friend of TEN years and father of three adorable children. In my spare time, I like to play guitar and coach little kids' baseball.
I use this website to log my thoughts, happenings & whatnot. Sometimes my posts are work or web-related & sometimes they are family-related or just random.
I produce creative design and code for a living at Visual Notion.
After Jobs' open letter, Thoughts on Flash, the Flashforks and iTorches have come out.
I've always experienced issues with Flash running on a multitude of Macs so I'm not heart-broken for Adobe's Flash. I realize Apple isn't perfect, either, but they do have a good model going. Although, many question their moves in regard to the App Store, it's been very lucrative for them and other app developers.
For me, I'm excited to get into mobile app development and mobile web app development. I see myself as starting with one foot in iPhone app development the other foot in mobile web app development and then possibly reaching out to the Android market later on, but the mobile web apps may take care of that.
Regardless, I need something new to learn and am looking forward to working more with HTML5, CSS3, Webkit, Objective-C and bridging the standalone apps and web apps.
The next 6-18 months should be very interesting.
Amazon, I'm still waiting on my books to arrive.
CLObject (in order to give it an actual name), came about after frustration with getting Suckerfish Dropdowns to work with SWFobject. My Suckerfish dropdowns were behind my Flash animation in IE only. After trying various CSS changes (z-index, absolute positioning, etc), I realized that it might be possible to put conditional comments for IE on the embed tag, but Camino/Firefox/Flock would choke and not show anything at all while Safari and IE were fine.