No one ever called me the quickest blogger, but I'm excited to announce the newest nimer in the world.

Kayden Michael Nimer
Born: Oct 29th 2007
7lbs 10oz - 21" long


Kayden is a perfectly healthy baby boy and both mom and are baby are doing great. So being a new dad I can't stop thinking about the question where do I start with all of these cool toy options? :)

I've written 2 versions of this app myself and now Flickr has done it. This week Flickr added support for geo tagging photos.

There are still some things I don't like about the Flickr version. For instance I hate that all of the photos are broken into pages of 250 photos. My current count is 4000+ geo tagged photos, which means 20+ pages. And I'd love to add a time line so I can see photos taken by a date range. Perhaps a little animation so I can watch photos of my travels - I went there, then there, then there.

But, this is Flickr. The company with a simple api. And with the new support for Geo data in the api building an application like this will be even easier.

My last version took 1 http request to get the photos and 1-2 more http requests per photo to get the geo data, depending on if it was stored in the EXIF data or as a Tag. As you can guess that could result in hundreds of http requests for 1 search. The updates the Flickr Api, should let me consolidate this down to 1 http request.

Guess it's time to start on the 3rd version of my Flickr/Flex2/Map Mashup.

Check it out. My World, according to Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nimer/map/

Some of you might have heard this already; I'm both happy and sad to admit it's true. After 8 great years at Adobe/Macromedia/Allaire I've decided it's time to move on and start my own consulting business with Jeff Tapper. What can I say the entrepreneurial itch needed to be scratched. Jeff, Angie, and I will be focusing on ColdFusion, Flex2, and other Adobe products.

You might think this is no big deal, perhaps you are thinking what the F$@%, or maybe it?s how can I use this to my advantage. ;)

However, don't worry I've left the ColdFusion team in good shape. There are some exciting things planned for Scorpio, but you'll need to wait and see, I still can't tell you what is planned. ;)

So if you are looking for some expert help drop me or Jeff an email. My new email is "mikenimer at yahoo dot com".

I thought I would share this photo/map application that I've been working on for a few a few weekends now. It's my buzzword bingo app, a Flex2, Flickr, Gooogle mashup.

Snoopy in the desert
download the flex 2 beta 2 player

Some of you might remember a photo/map application I did a few years back. (Yes I'm a sucker for maps.) However, that was before the flick api and google maps were released. Not to mention it was very slow. With Flex2 and the flickr/google apis that are out there now, this was a lot easier to do. Thanks to flex2 I had a working prototype in just a few hours. And the experience is a lot better too. The first time around just finding and displaying a map was a pain, this time it was the easy part. And with the flickr api I didn't have to write any back end code to parse thousands of photos. Instead I just needed to spend many nights uploading them all to flickr (I still have more to upload but I reached my flickr monthly limit already, I need to wait for May to finish).

I'm not done yet, some of my future plans include:

• Allow others to link to this app, to show their own geotagged flickr photos. (I need to speed it up, and document the url params)
• Speed up the flickr http calls with some server side threading. (flickr wants you to make a separate request for each photo to get the exif/tag data = SLOW)
• Add support for Yahoo and ESRI maps too.
• Add a regular flickr photo browser
• Make a better looking slideshow popup (anyone have one already?)
• Add some kind of timeline slider, like the one on google finance. (anyone have one already?)

9 months ago she said yes and 2 weeks ago she said "I do!". 

Granted I'm biased, but, I must be the luckiest guy in the world!  Feb 18th, Angela and I were lucky enough to get many of our friends and family together in a beautiful location for our wedding ( puerto vallarta ). If you're interested you can view our photos here.

If you are thinking about getting married soon, I really have to recommend a destination wedding. Back at home people come for a few hours, say hello and then go back to there normal lives. However, with a destination wedding everyone has to get away and relax (yes it's possible at a wedding). We ended up having 4 days with friends and family (some who I haven't seen for 10+ years). This gave us time to catch up, hang out, and drink more tequila shots then I thought anyone could.

So now it's time to get back to work, there is still some cool things left to do for ColdFusion and Flex2 integration. And a quick apology to everyone who has sent me an email in the last 2-3 weeks, I'm working through them now. I'll try to get back to you soon.

29 states and 13252 miles later the time for our sabbatical has ended. If this is the first you've read about the trip my fiancé (she said yes during the trip!) and I decided to take a 7 week road trip around the country. I have to say it was an amazing trip. However, like all good things it must come to an end. If you have emailed my over the last few weeks I will be going through my email and answering all of the emails during the next few days.

Facts:

Thoughts:

4 days into the trip on Tuesday morning (6:40am) I asked Angela Renkosik to marry me. Lucky for me after 5 minutes of stun'd silence and a few "what's this" (I thought the ring was supposed to speak for itself ;) she did say YES!

I have to say it's weird to use the word fiance, but I'm getting used to it and I like it. I should have done this sooner!

If you are interested, here are the pics http://www.angelarenkosik.com/angie/index.cfm?page=photo_display&key=50

I've also created a new photo gallery just for our trip. http://www.mikenimer.com/2005Sabbatical/index.cfm

One very happy man!!