Hi. I’m Chris Adamson. I write, edit, and code through my company Subsequently & Furthermore, located in Grand Rapids, MI. My business card says I’m both “President” and “Director of Code and Media” — corporate law requires me to be the first, whereas the second is my own concept of what I do.
To crunch the resume into a nutshell: I studied television production in grad school, worked at CNN Headline News on the editorial side (writing, editing, and producing newscasts), then swiched to software development focused on video-related topics, spending about five years (in two stints) at Pathfire, working on a video distribution system for cable headends and broadcast networks. I then went independent, spending most of my time editing Java-related websites for O’Reilly Media. I also wrote one book for them, QuickTime for Java: A Developer’s Notebook and co-wrote another, Swing Hacks.
I’m now totally focused on iPhone and iPad development, with a particular interest in media development for the platform. Enough so that I was able to write another book, Core Audio on the low-level audio framework shared by iOS and Mac OS X. I also co-wrote an introductory book, iPhone SDK Development.
In consulting work over the last few years, I’ve helped build EPUB readers, streaming audio clients, CD rippers, social apps, and more. I also have a few of my own products on the App Store, including Road Tip, a navigation tool to find gas/food/lodging at upcoming freeway exits that distinguishes itself by figuring out the freeway you’re on and your direction of travel and only showing you upcoming exits, rather than performing a radius search that find exits behind you or on other freeways entirely.
[Time code]; is where I can shoot off steam about digital media development, including frameworks and libraries, codecs, devices, formats, distribution strategies, relevant industries, the content side, and more.
The name of the blog is an Objective-C pun.
Thoughts? Feel free to comment directly on the entries, or send e-mail to cadamson [at] subfurther.com.
