Life is a game of chess. You have to make your moves carefully, consciously and without emotion. When you decide to leave a company and team you really care about, the emotion factor just can’t be ignored. After 17 very successful months at Yahoo!, I have decided to leave for an exciting startup company in Mountain…
Author: chuckstar
Back to the Future THE Ride is now in the past
After serving ‘Back to the Future’ fans at the Orlando theme park for nearly 16 years, Universal Studios has closed the amazing ride. Back to the Future is my favorite movie of all time, so naturally, the ride based on the movie was my favorite attraction at the theme park. I liked the ride so…
Lecturing at Boston University today, on Flash
I graduated Boston University’s College of Communications in 1999 with a B.S. degree in Film and Television. Per the invitation of the college’s alumni association, I will be lecturing 30-50 students, Monday, April 9, 2007 on my success with Flash. The title of my lecture/presentation will be called “Flash, the Ultimate Communications Tool”. In the…
The Networks Strike Back, against YouTube
I’ve been waiting for this; the day when Networks realize the value of their own content enough to host it collectively for online consumption. YouTube has been revolutionary for millions of people, realizing how accessible 5-year-old web video technology can be. Granted, we’ve been waiting for higher connection speeds and easier web development technologies to…
ChaseTV – Making family happy with Flash
Within 24 hours of his birth, my newborn son Chase was a star. Using my 2-year-old Inflxuis account running Flash Media Server, I was able to stream video of my beautiful baby, LIVE from our hospital room to friends and family back in Boston. Yes, the hospital (O’Connor in San Jose) has Wifi in the rooms. And…
Introducing Chase Edward, born at 4:34 pm on 3/4
My wife Jamie and I had our first child on Sunday. His name is Chase Edward and after spending the first 5 minutes with him, I knew we would love this baby more than anything! My wife is healing and doing great. We can’t wait to take him home in a couple of days. And…
Yahoo! Maps Mashups SHIPPING and IN STORES
My first book “Yahoo! Maps Mashups” is in stores and starts shipping today. What a thrill it was yesterday to spot my book (actually, my wife saw it first) at the local B&N with 4 fresh copies on the shelf. The book is categorized as “Web Development”, “Flash”, “ActionScript”, “JavaScript” and “Ajax” so it finds itself…
Proudly Announcing GameTripping.com (re-launch)
With a goal of 500 reviews by May 1st, I have re-launched Gametripping.com. Originally launched in June 2004, GameTripping received some early press when I gave a radio interview almost 2 years ago. Recently, I found some time to enhance the old code, and with the power of Flex 2, I was able to really enhance…
Yahoo! Maps Mashups – From the back cover
Less than two weeks to go! Amazon.com has added details from the book’s back cover. I like this becuase it sheds some light on the books voice and direction. In addition to covering, in detail, the maps API methods, I spent some time helping the reader from from Ajax to JS-Flash. Another thing revealed here, and…
Faith in Dell restored
It was a nice sunny day and I was enjoying a rather calm morning meeting. And then that burning smell came into the conference room. As I wrote about months ago, turns out a Dell laptop caught fire 5 floors north of ours and we had to evacuate. I was a loyal Dell customer from…