Good day ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to today's meeting of Programmers Anonymous where we seek to help those who are addicted to programming. My name is Adam Greene, and I am a programmer. Hello Adam.
Doesn't it feel at times like we like our work a little too much?? Maybe we are addicted to programming? I'm not sure, but I know I'm really digging ASP.NET and all the other cool Microsoft technologies.
Let me back up for a minute and introduce myself. My name is Adam Greene (which you already know), and I am the Lead Developer at Trimedia Atlantic Inc (which you probably didn't know). Trimedia does everything from Video and Audio for television to Print management. Basically we are a marketing company without the marketing part :-) My job here is to help move our clients from traditional medias to "New Media". What is new media, you ask? Good question. It is really just a buzz word. It means "take what you have always done and do it in a new way / medium". For us, it means moving our clients away from normal websites to what we call "Advanced Web Systems". Our goal is to help our clients leverage their websites to increase their customer interaction, retention, and satisfaction through Web 2.0 technologies and Rich Internet Experience technologies. Our technology of choice to that end is Microsoft ASP.NET, Silverlight, and Windows Presentation Framework. Basically all things Microsoft.
The purpose of this blog will be to catalog my adventures in New Media and how we apply Microsoft technologies to our day to day development challenges. I will also talk about Web 2.0 technologies in general, which will mean at times I will be talking about, dare I say it .... non-Microsoft technologies. The reason for this is that my other day job is "Media Programming Instructor" at McKenzie College. In the Media Programming course we will be teaching the students how to develop web games from start to finish in Flash CS3 / ActionScript 3.0 (along with basic E-Commerce, you can't make a penny at web games unless you have a website to put them in). We will also be teaching them PHP and MySQL (I know, I know. I tried to get them to teach MSSQL and ASP.NET, but being an "arts" college, they use Apple computers and are an Adobe licensed training center). If someone offered to give them the same deal (hint, hint) on Intel / Microsoft, I'm sure I could convince them to go for it.