It’s been a while, I know. Here’s the bridge between "when we left our hero" and present day plot… I found out on New Year’s Eve that the stealth start-up company I had been working for ran out of cash. I immediately went on the offensive, and over the next 12 days I sent out 10 resumes a day, rode innumerable trains, buses, and walked to parts unknown in search of a corporate soul mate.

On January 15th, I started at Zivity, a premium social network for mature audiences, as their first front-end developer. Since, I have helped Zivity push two beta releases, turned 30, begun paying back my debts, saw Griddle at Cafe Du Nord, and funked out to Maceo Parker live at the Fillmore.

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It’s no secret to those who know me that I haven’t been the most career oriented web-hacker in the past. I’ve lived a “permanent vacation” style of life over the years spending large amounts of time snowboarding and wakeboarding by day and coding by night. So, just before New Year’s Day 2007 I moved into my cousin’s San Francisco guest room determined to finally get serious about my craft and career. It was a tough year in which I had many struggles, unexpected set-backs, tight pockets, and much to learn in order to compete in the local market.

Web Technologies I Learned to Use in ‘07

If you’re not going forward you’re moving backwards in this industry. After taking some steps forward in late 2005, ’06 brought huge growth in my snowboarding skills and little progress in my development prowess. Looking back on the year that was 2007, however, I’ve grown exponentially as a developer. Here are some of the new technologies I’ve become proficient using over the year:

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January 30th, 2008 should be circled on your calendar if you will be in San Francisco for the evening as Griddle plays Cafe Du Nord on my birthday!

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120 Days of Powder Web Mock, originally uploaded by yetanother.

Just got the basic web mock of 120 Days of Powder live. This uses jQuery + PHP/MySQL to load video onto the stage on demand. The Snow Report works, but I’m updating it to cache the result so that Steamboat’s server doesn’t become overloaded serving up XML. Later this week I’ll be posting some tutorials based on this site for jQuery + PHP/MySQL, Flash, FLV, ff-mpeg, etc. Be on the lookout.

Oh, and it validates and looks crispy on IE 7 too thanks to their finally adding PNG-24 partial-transparency support!

oh mama, originally uploaded by skampy.

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