I am happy and proud to announce that foto eBook has emerged from beta! It was a huge step for the software. To celebrate this momentous occasion, I've updated the foto eBook homepage to include a customer testimonial as well as offering a 30 day free trial.
2008 is going to be a great year for foto eBook, there is much planned, stay tuned and get your free trial now
In addition, I have also been working on a blog for a few months now. Check out Encoded, it's where I aggregate all the different coding work I have been doing.
At the end of May 2006, I started working with AOL as a consultant. I continue to work with AOL's entertainment channels writing HTML, CSS & JavaScript. Some of the channels I have worked on include, videogames.aol.com, television.aol.com and music.aol.com.
Update, as of January 2007, I have been working full-time for AOL Music. And in March / April of 2007 I changed my job title and primary focus from Senior Web Technologist to Software Engineer. This transition allowed me to focus on more end-to-end development tasks. Now, instead of working in CSS / JS all the time. I work in JavaScript, Tcl, JSP, Velocity, Java, MySQL, AJAX Application Development, Flash/Flex, and of couse CSS! :)
I know you may be thinking, AOL is gross. But that's probably because you haven't checked out our rocking new video experience, have a look
Sorry for the brief detour to Scribble Board. I was caught off guard when the company that hosts gregorytomlinson.com abruptly upgraded their servers. After the upgrade, the site had been deleted. Just before the deletion, I had made dozens of edits. It was a devastating loss. Thankfully though, that is over. And, gregorytomlinson.com is back with a new design!
The biggest news is the launch of foto ebook
foto eBook is an easy-to-use web application designed to manage your dynamic Flash website. After creating several iterations of dynamic Flash sites that used XML files, it became clear that the average user didn't enjoy editing XML files by hand. I wanted to provide photographers & visual artists with a tool that was easy to use. I thought people would be more inclined to update their websites if they had the right tools.
I authored the foto eBook software over the summer, and launched the beta site on Thursday, October 26, 2006, four months and one day after the work began.
Take a few mintues to check out foto eBook, your online photo management solution! Go To foto eBook.com »
Well, I said it was worth 20 seconds of fun.. And, if you figured out that you could put anything in the URL after '/scribble' [like this] and it would be printed on the screen, it was sorta fun.. It was either that, or a big phat 'page not found'. I prefer the scribble board :)
The scribble board actually came to life while researching deep linking within a Flash movie. I felt that being able to dynamically deep link into a Flash movie was critical to making foto eBook unique and a success. I am not going to spell out how it works, but the creation of scribble board was critical to having deep linking on foto eBook sites. Something no other dynamically generated Flash website offers.
Email me at gregory.tomlinson@gmail.com
I am based in Brooklyn, Ny USA
I'll avoid giving out any spiritual guidance, but I do recommend checking out this stuff