{"id":16371,"date":"2010-05-05T11:45:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T18:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2010\/05\/my-decade-at-adobe.html"},"modified":"2010-05-05T11:45:56","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T18:45:56","slug":"my_decade_at_adobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/05\/my_decade_at_adobe\/","title":{"rendered":"My Decade at Adobe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking out on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tacomascene.com\/kalakala\/04_1999_to_lake_union_lake_union.html\">Lake Washington Ship Canal<\/a> &amp; drawbridge outside of Adobe&#8217;s Seattle office today, I&#8217;m hit by a profound sense of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu: I looked at the same scene exactly 10 years ago, my first day at Adobe &amp; working in this office.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d given up my Flash &amp; HTML design gig, moved out from New York, and joined a team that set out to make a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LiveMotion\">great new Web animation product<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Back then the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Svg\">open-standard SVG<\/a> was <em>just about<\/em> to take over the world (for real!), and we were getting set to support it.  We&#8217;d export Flash SWF files, too, but fundamentally we wanted to support open standards.<\/li>\n<li>The browser wars were still blazing away, bringing rapid innovation in HTML.<\/li>\n<li>We were starting to see hardware-accelerated Web content, and it seemed inevitable that such support would soon be widespread.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Well, you know, funny stuff happens&#8230;  But here we are, exactly 10 years later, and I&#8217;m looking at today&#8217;s headlines:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch: <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/05\/05\/adobe-cto-kevin-lynch-were-going-to-make-the-best-tools-in-the-world-for-html5\/\">We&#8217;re Going To Make The Best Tools In The World For HTML5<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ie\/archive\/2010\/05\/05\/html5-and-same-markup-second-ie9-platform-preview-available-for-developers.aspx\">supporting SVG and talking open standards<\/a>.  (Hey, it&#8217;s only a decade late; but so it goes&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Browser innovation is once again red hot, with <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/05\/05\/google-chrome-video-test\/\">Google showing off Chrome speed<\/a>, and MSFT, Apple, and others leveraging GPUs.<\/li>\n<li>Flash Player is being <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2010\/02\/adobe_wired_tablets_the_future_of_magazines.html\">optimized for GPUs on mobile<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kaourantin.net\/?p=89\">desktop systems<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Interesting times, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>In the intervening decade I moved coast-to-coast two more times with Adobe, hung up my flamed shoes &amp; the <a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/flavawagon\/\">flamed Volvo<\/a> I bought in Seattle, met &amp; married a great Seattle girl, had two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/\">most excellent boys<\/a>, and got to help design, build, and support five versions of perhaps the most important graphics application in the world.<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m about to take on some brand new challenges.  More details to come, soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking out on the Lake Washington Ship Canal &amp; drawbridge outside of Adobe&#8217;s Seattle office today, I&#8217;m hit by a profound sense of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu: I looked at the same scene exactly 10 years ago, my first day at Adobe &amp; working in this office. I&#8217;d given up my Flash &amp; HTML design gig, moved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}