My name is Chris Basham. I’m a web developer and designer with the passion and knowledge to create the extraordinary. Though my journey has only begun, let me share with you what I’ve learned along the way.
About Me
I’m currently a senior studying New Media and Computer Science at IUPUI. Over eight years ago I read Dave Taylor’s Creating Cool HTML 4 Web Pages (actually the first edition), and since then I knew my career would reside in the Internet.
Freshmen year of high school, I flipped the channel to the former TechTV flagship show The Screen Savers, introducing me to Photoshop authority Bert Monroy; his five minute tutorial awakened me to the true potential of graphic illustration and photo manipulation. Around the same time I rented and read a 1000-page book on ActionScript 2.0 Flash programming from the local library, which coincidentally jump-started my understanding of JavaScript. The following year, I built a Red Hat Linux 9 server (which to a novice required a hefty manual) from spare parts and started to dabble with server-side web technologies.
Paralleling my early 2008 internship at Indianapolis design and web firm A Beautiful Question, I burnt through the ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook and found a new life in the MVC micro-architecture Cairngorm building Flex and AIR applications.
As of September 2008, I’ll be interning in the Pervasive Technology Labs at IUPUI, learning from the wonderful Dr. Polly Baker. I’ll work with ActionScript 3, exploring how well the language can process and analyze video. Stay tuned.
On the non-coding side of things, I love playing Wii, watching TV, quoting movies, reading classic graphic novels, devouring blueberry muffins, joining random Ultimate Frisbee games, and relaxing with a session of Disc golf.
Contact
- chris@bash.am
- Phone
- 812 459 9891
- Location
- Indianapolis, Indiana
Community
- News
- Digg
- Networking
- Bookmarking
- Del.icio.us
- Micro-Blogging
- TV & Movies
- Hulu
Skills
- Languages
- ActionScript 3 + JavaScript + PHP + MySQL + XHTML + CSS
- Technologies
- Ajax + Flex + AIR
- Software
- Adobe Photoshop + Adobe Illustrator + Adobe Flash
Availability & Resume
I’m currently booked with projects through January 2009. In the meantime, download my resume (PDF).
About the Site
This site is developed as my home-base, where I can share my work and thoughts with the world. The site is hosted by Dreamhost and powered by WordPress, with the theme hand-built with TextWrangler.
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