Subsequently and Furthermore is a Georgia-based corporation providing software consulting, specializing in Java, Web, Mac, and Media. S&F also provides writing and speaking expertese on these topics.

Who Is S&F?

Chris Adamson, President and Director of Code and Media, has been developing software professionally since 1997, focusing on client-side GUI development and media-distribution technologies. He is a published author, having written QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook and co-written Swing Hacks. He is also the Editor (for O'Reilly Media) of the industry-leading developer community java.net, and was formerly the Editor of ONJava.com. He speaks on Java and media topics at various conferences, including JavaOne, the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference and MacHack. Prior to 1997, he was a Writer / Associate Producer at CNN Headline News. He has an MA in Telecommunications from Michigan State University, and a BA in English and BS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University.

See also:

• Chris' resume
• [Time code];, my digital media development blog
• ONJava / MacDevCenter author page
• java.net author page

What I Do

I advise and develop solutions, with a particular focus on media technologies for Mac OS X (QuickTime, QTKit, Core Audio, etc.), iPhone (Core Audio, H.264 playback, image capture and rendering), and cross-platform Java (QuickTime for Java [QTJ], Java Media Framework [JMF], Java Bindings for Open GL [JOGL], and JavaSound).

Previous projects have included:

• proof-of-concept apps for server-side movie construction in memory and totally with media references (as opposed to disk/memory copies), supporting track-level segment editing
• development of an on-screen preview component for QuickTime for Java video capture, blitting pixel data from QuickDraw to Java2D, and accounting for live device and configuration changes
• a capture-and-go application (Mac, Windows) for recording and editing personal video messages
• server-side transcoding of audio files into a cell-phone friendly format
• development of a Java Swing GUI for monitoring traffic on a media distribution network
• development of an open-source, cross-platform MP3 http-streaming (ie, "shoutcast"-like) client library, with metadata tag parsing
• development of a Java wrapper around the Objective-C QTKit framework

I have started writing applications with Apple's public SDK for iPhone and iPod Touch applications, and can provide development services immediately in advance of the public launch of the iPhone App Store, expected in June.

To support other platforms, I've studied Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) development, in anticipation of taking on Blu-Ray Disc Java (BD-J) work, which is based on MHP. I am also studying Flash and Flex, with an eye to web-embedded video projects.

I also have the expertise to write about and train developers in cross-platform media development, with real world experience of what works and what doesn't. I also produce podcasts and edit video, which gives me an affinity to clients' professional media needs.

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