About
Name: Jack Doyle
Age: 33
I'm an odd mix of designer/programmer. I went to college on a graphic design scholarship but then after about 5 years of working as a designer in an agency, the internet emerged and I got motivated enough to order a few programming books so that I could produce the sites I wanted to create. Oh, and I HATE reading. It takes me a loooong time to read and digest the information. Well, I fell in love with writing code and here I am many years later doing exactly that every day. I still do design work for clients but the majority of my work involves dreaming up ways to accomplish advanced stuff in Flash.
Sometimes I dream in ActionScript. I know, it's scary. And sad.
You can check out my web site (with samples of my work) at http://www.greensock.com.
As for hobbies, I play men's volleyball (beach doubles and indoor 6's) and basketball. Not that I'm that good, but I enjoy it. I played volleyball for Illinois State University back in my college days (when I could still jump - kinda).
I was an athiest for many years until I finally realized that I was completely ignorant of what I was denying. Atheism was my choice more for emotional reasons than logical ones. When I actually did some thinking and researching, I couldn't remain an athiest without being intellectually dishonest. Deciding what I believed about who Jesus was impacted my life in some tremendous ways. Now a huge portion of my identity comes from being a Christian. Although I'm not an expert on the matter, I love discussing the issues related to what people believe (and why), who Jesus is (or isn't), and how faith affects our lives in practical ways. Feel free to post questions related to faith here.
on November 6th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Heey MAN!
I’m a brazilian actionscript programmer, and i discovered your website from a friend.
I read your posts, I read your code! Heeey! It’s SCARY!!!!!
Your lifestyle, your lnowledge about Actionscript, your website :P is wonderful !
Here’s the thing: When I clicked on the link “About” on your blog, I expected to find out who was the programmer behind the monstrosity of TweenFilterLite … And what I found was not anything more than a simple sentence.
You should post more information about yourself!
We want to know!
A hug Mr Greensock!
on November 6th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Good point, Joel. I’ve gone ahead and added some info here. Thanks for asking. I didn’t think anyone really cared :-)
on February 17th, 2008 at 2:06 am
Hey Jack - I just wanted to say THANKS for writing TweenLite. I used it in AS2 and now I’m using the AS3 version. Both are absolutely awesome and have been a tremendous help to me in many projects. I pretty much never take the time to thank anyone for code I find on the internet, but yours is an exception. You rule.
Also, I just noticed your paragraph about being a Christian. How cool… I am a Christian as well and I try very hard to live every day for God’s glory.
Thanks again for sharing this awesome tool! –Ben
on February 24th, 2008 at 4:49 am
hey dude…
I’m sure you’ve tried your own tweener with: http://www.robertpenner.com/easing/
together, they’re like some unstoppable fusion of super guided movement. imaging a world where all movement in could be guided by an easing equation…I like this world.
on March 21st, 2008 at 5:09 am
Hi Jack,
I want to thank you for the nice work you have made available for us though your blog. I haven’t had the pleasure of using your tweening class yet, but using your XML parser has given me lots of programming joy.
Also, I think it’s admirable that you confess your faith. I am also a christian web developer — and once in a while I stumble about other developers that speak their faith freely. It’s always very encouraging.
Who said Jesus could not be preached in ActionScript?
Thank you for your effort. Now imagine all the people that want to thank you but don’t dare. — Simon
on March 25th, 2008 at 1:28 am
Jack,
Your the man!
Post Simple3D! We’re waiting!
on March 25th, 2008 at 9:42 am
I know, I know, Sean, I’m sorry it’s taking a while to get Simple3D launched, but I’ve been WAAAY too busy lately and I need to iron out one issue in the code before launching it. I just haven’t had time to even spend 10 minutes on it in the past 4-6 weeks. Plus I want to get some forums set up, etc. to better serve the community. Thanks for your patience! Stay tuned. If you want to see a sample of what Simple3D can do, you can check it out at http://www.greensock.com/ActionScript/Simple3D/ (sorry about the silly video - it’s just one that I had on hand of my sons and I wanted to test performance to make sure the class could render things like 30fps video smoothly)
on April 21st, 2008 at 5:49 pm
hey jack,
well first of all … thank you soooo much for all you have gave to us … ok so far :) -
i’ve just watched the Simple3D demo … fantastic great. can’t wait to get a preview to work with … i think i would pay a lot of money to get it in a few days ! :) … deal or no deal :)
thanks … stay tweened