About
My name is Jonathan Cipriano. Redblind is my blog. I have been a developer/designer for about 10 years. I have been a professional developer in the digital advertising industry for over 4 years. Clients include Microsoft, HP, SanDisk, Nokia, Blue Cross, and Mervyns. My concentration is on the presentation layer (look and feel) of web applications. My weapon of choice is Adobe Flash and Flex. My support arsenal includes PHP, C#.NET (Silverlight), Java (Processing) and JavaScript (DHTML/AJAX). So what it is you really do? It can be difficult to explain my profession to people not in related industries. The following is a great description (albeit a little out dated) lifted from peachpit.com:There is a rumor that a new breed of software engineer exists. This particular species of engineer is part designer, part programmer, and part video/audio editor with an active and growing interest in 3D technologies and the ability to pick apart the construction of a font glyph. Who is this new person? It is the interactive developer. As an interactive developer, I can say from personal experience that it’s the best job in the business because we get to play with all sorts of great stuff. One minute we’re editing video and the next we’re binding Web Services to a Web Application or streaming video and a collection of images to a client app that looks like it should be on a desktop not in a Web Browser. Flash is often presented as the only platform for the interactive developer. The truth is that you have plenty of tools at your disposal. Yes, Flash is certainly the most widely distributed platform for the interactive developer, but you can also work with AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), Adobe’s PDF format, and Microsoft’s new Windows Presentation Foundation. Each of these platforms gives you, the interactive developer, a rich foundation upon which you can let your imagination run rampant.