Hello All.

This is the new site in all it’s responsive, HTML5, font-face’d goodness. It’s taken it’s time as well… But I have an excuse! Well not really – I guess that work and life got in the road as it does from time-to-time.

In fact last time I posted anything of use on this site I considered myself a die-hard Flash Dev – I ate PureMVC for breakfast, BitmapData for lunch and SwfAddress for dinner. Then the iPhone / iPad shitestorm happened and I got angry; ‘Why not flash player on my iPhone, why not flash intros on my iPad!’ …After being angry for about 15 minutes I decided to invest some time into looking at what it might be like working with other alternatives – ‘What about playing with JQuery and some of the CSS 3 stuff’ I thought? How bad could it be? Not at all was the answer: Javascript and in-turn jQuery was very like the syntax I was used to in AS3 (albeit not as strict) so moving onto building fairly complex AJAX apps wasn’t that hard. And there was a lot of tutorials and resources out there to help me on the way.

From there I got into a bit of Ruby on Rails, and the lightweight PHP framework CodeIgniter. And that’s where a lot of my workload is at the moment. I have the occasional Flash project, but mainly these days they’re just legacy jobs that require updating.

What effect does this have on this site I hear you say? Well, mainly that I’ll be writing about stuff I use now and not really much on Flash – I’ll keep the old stuff there as it seems to bring a fair chunk of traffic to the site every day though.

Now! I just need to figure out what I can write about!