First there’s a third little Foxy coming in the immediate future. He or she arrives in August. I expect things to get pretty busy, but seeing how great our first two kids have been, I’m excited to meet and see what our third turns out to be. We’re doing lots of fun things with the kids prior to F3 day as I personally call it like local fairs and a Bridgeport Bluefish game. I hope they adjust well to having a new sibling in the house, but we’re all very excited nonetheless.

Second, I’ve finally begun dispersing the link for my AS3 Library, FoxR around to the Flash Coders and PureMVC communities. I’ve been hesitant thus far mainly because I worried some things weren’t fully fleshed out but having sat on the alpha release for almost six months now, I feel like it’s seriously time to solicit some feedback. So far, the initial feedback from the LinkedIn Groups has been very positive.

Third, I’ve been doing a lot of MVC Development in PHP using the CodeIgniter framework. I have two projects that are pretty set for beta ready to hit the web. The Comic Rack (Name change pending due to a conflict with another comic project of the same name) is the first and older of the two projects. It began way beack when I was still at Starwood Hotels and is my attempt at creating a dynamic user driven online comics database. I have grander schemes in mind if I can ever find unlimited time and/or funding but in the meantime, the inital alpha version is currently available at tcr.aeoliandigital.com.

The other project (and one I’ve pretty excited about) is a online fantasy league web site project that will use Out of the Park Baseball 11 as it’s data engine. OOTP 11 is a text based baseball sim game that I have had the great pleasure of beta testing for it’s last two releases and after stumbling upon Frank Holmes awesome Stats Lab mod for Online Leagues, I found inspiration to go ahead and take the plunge of building a fantasy league site. I’m currently completing work on the web based automated install scripts (taking many lessons from Wordpress’ super simple install process as a guide) and I expect that to hit the web in a beta url by the end of this week or early next week. Either way, I think this is going to be a great project to throw out into the wild.

So lots hitting very soon. Can’t wait to get everyone’s feedback on all the work.

http://www.flashmagazine.com/community/detail/everyone_to_their_bases_-_flash_is_under_attack/

http://blog.onebyonedesign.com/?p=421

My favorite Tweet of the day was by Jesse Freeman AKA @TheFlashBum. His tweet.

He had a couple other good ones, but that one cracked me up the most.

My take on the iPad? Call me jaded but “Meh”. Not blown away. Flash 10.1 did a lot more for me that a $500 over-sized iPhone. Just my two cents.

A good read and worth the time and effort to implement.

The Definitive Guide to Semantic Web Markup for Blogs.

After watching the initial four episode run to open the series I’m torn if this will be a long term reboot series or not. The production is slick enough, the acting is good and the visitors arrival (as much of a rip-off of independence day as it was) did make for a dramatic open to the show. Unlike how I felt after watching the pilot for Lost and the mini-series introduction of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, though, V left me….well unimpressed.

I’ve read a lot about how many critics and blogger’s have been deconstructing V as nothing more than a thinly veiled criticism of the Obama Presidency. Many have gone as far as to say that the show’s debut, exactly one year to the day after he was elected President, show’s it’s blatant connection. Although I can’t deny that the visitor’s (annoyingly referred to as “V’s” in the show) storyline features a number of elements that reflect the current state of the world and the major issues Obama and his administration are facing (Health Care being the biggest), I’m still not sold on that there’s any intent by the creator’s to directly lob criticism at the White House. With a town like Hollywood, though, you never really know.

Character and cast wise, I think V has done a better job than some recent reboot efforts of not filling the show with pretty looking yet empty characters. The 2008 NBC reboot Knight Rider is to me a great example of putting completely “pretty” albeit useless characters into a show simply to fill space around the true star, the car Kitt. I also The forthcoming public 3.0 launch of Aeolian Digital.com marks not only the third version of this Web site, but the twelfth overall time I’ve redesigned and relaunched my Web site. From way back in 1997 when I launched my first Web page on AOL.com to today, it’s been quite a long journey.

So for all the other Web pros and those curious about this journey, I plan to go way back to that first ever page in 1997 and work back to the present day, detailing the steps involved, what I learned along the way and what was happening in the technology world at that time. I won;t cover all twelve steps, but hit on the major milestones that occurred.

I feel that this journey is a good one to document because as much as my professional and consulting career have helped to shape who I am as a technology professional today, my personal site has been the watershed site for personal exploration, trial and error and pushing the boundaries of my imagination and development skills.

While the new Aeolian Digital revamp soft launched at the beginning of October, a formal announcement will be made via social network channels including Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and more on November 15 to announce the revised site which moved to the Wordpress platform for 2009 and beyond.

In December comes the official announcement of a new version of a comics web site project that is now 1 1/2 years in development. I’m very proud of where things have come thus far and I’m excited about releasing it publicly.

In January comes the official beta release of an open source ActionScript framework almost three years in the making. This is my big one and I plan to have had a full six months of alpha testing before this release.

It’s a huge amount of work about to culminate in three months of big news. Stay Tuned!

It brought back fond memories of running around as a kid all hyped up on Jolt Cola, which was eventually pulled because it was pretty much like pure sugar and caffeine. It probably did irrevocable damage to our pancreas, kidneys, brain and soft tissues, but what did we know, We were ten.

Funny episode. Looking forward to more.