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.
In order to go the direction I want with mobile web app development, I'm working towards getting these tools so I can produce design/code more efficiently:
I'm excited about moving towards a new direction this year. I'm stepping onto the mobile web app development field! I'm currently nailing down some things for my first flagship product. Outside of the absolute uniqueness of it, the majority of my excitement comes from how useful this flagship app will be to a massive amount of people.
One of the most exciting aspects for me is that the end product has nothing to do with design, development, branding, website creation or social networking.
When furthering convergence of real life with online data something has to give. People will cut back on something. Commenting, for one, has become too noisy on blogs, in my opinion. People will trim the fat and time involved in managing comments which typically are negative or distract entirely from the information presented.
I don't believe that ALL commenting is bad. I just see that more people are seeing how time-consuming it is to manage and need to cut back on offering that as a communication method on their website.