Moving on . . . Flash isn’t for everything?!

Well if you’ve been to pbking.com in the past year or so you’ll have seen that it’s been in a pretty gnarly state of development. I’ve always got a project or three in the fire and my personal web space has usually been one of them. This has resulted in a publicly facing pile of poo as other things tend to pull my attention from it very easily.

I’m a Flash developer; have been for well over a decade now and my natural instinct for my website was to build it completely in Flash/Flex. I’m not saying it couldn’t have been done. Of course I could have eventually written enough code to make pbking.com do what I wanted/needed it to do. But I wanted my website to focus around my blog, and to do that I had to have a pretty robust blogging piece of software. Additionally it would have to be searchable by all of the search engines, bookmarkable and bulletproof. With the aid of another developer or three and full-time attention Flash/Flex could CERTAINLY do that. I just don’t have that kind of time or resources.

On top of that, WordPress already does what I need. Sure it’s not as slick as a similarly coded front-end in Flex. I don’t have nearly as much control over what goes on (my PHP/AJAX skills are pretty weak compared to my experience with the Flash platform). But there are so many other things that I would rather be spending my precious free coding time doing.

So that’s what I’ll be doing now. More thoughts, more projects and less hacking on the site. And speaking of the site, if you’ve been consuming my peanut buttery thoughts from pbking.wordpress.com, well, that’s no longer edible. I’ll be posting exclusively from home base now. I hope you enjoy and don’t get my thoughts stuck to the roof of your mouth.

-Jason Crist