I'm currently in beautiful Tallahassee Florida spending some much needed down time with my family absorbing the sun and catching up with old friends and colleagues. During my reprieve, I've spent a fair amount of time learning ways to develop for the iPhone. This intrigues me greatly because it’s a new viewport into online content with a new set of rules and challenges.

I decided to create an iPhone targeted version of my figit site. The goal is to develop a site that would feel like an iPhone application while effectively serving the same purpose as that of my "desktop" site.

Mobile Safari detection on the iPhone is possible but I've decided not to sniff for iPhone users so that the site is not iPhone exclusive. Over a thousand lines of markup later, I really dig my iPhone site and will continue to build on it! Let me know what you think.
- Mike Ellan
mike@figit.com

Web Developer II, DC
Responsibilities:

• XHTML, CSS, JSP, JavaScript, XML/XSL, Flash, and AJAX development
• TeamSite Integration
• Owning and collaborating on prototyping, design, development, testing, documentation and maintenance of web application components
• Needs assessments, implementation and training
• Pre-production testing
• Production standards development and enforcement
• Strongly focused on aesthetics, user experience, and persona driven design & development

Senior Portal Developer, Philadelphia - PA
Responsibilities:

• Development timeline and functional specification authoring
• Branch deployment scheduling and monitoring
• Trafficking QA defect findings from appLabs
• Pre-production testing
• Production standards development and enforcement
• XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, JSON, JSTL, JSP, XSL, XML, UI/UX, Behavioral Pattern, NETui, BEA WebLogic, WebLogic Workshop 8.1, J2EE, TestDirectory Mercury QC, and custom SupportSoft and Omniture implmentations

Internet Production Manager, Philadelphia - PA
Responsibilities:

• Managing front-end production staff
• Intra-departmental project trafficking utilizing the creative, editorial, and quality assurance teams
• Production standards development and enforcement
• AJAX, ActionScript, Flex, MXML, XML, XSLT, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, and DHTML development

Senior Front-End Developer, Philadelphia - PA
Responsibilities:

• Leading our small production staff
• Liaison between my team and the account services, and product management teams.
• Production standards development and enforcement
• AJAX, ActionScript, XML, XSLT, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, and DHTML development

Lead Interactive Developer, Philadelphia - PA
Responsibilities:

• Resource management both local and remote
• Participating in client pitches and discovery sessions
• Project estimating including production
• ActionScript, XML, XSLT, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, and DHTML development

"Mike has consistently proven himself to be a valued member of our development team. He approaches projects in a holistic manner, regardless of his specific area of contribution."

"His candid and affable nature adds to the personality of the group and I look forward to being involved in future projects with Mike."

Andrew Lisse, Senior Manager
Comcast

"Mike Ellan is one of the truly outstanding young developers that I've worked with. He performed exceptionally within the demanding schedule of an interactive agency. In all tasks, Mike demonstrated flexibility, ambition, and enthusiasm. Furthermore, he always added a level of creativity to our projects."

"My admiration for Mike is so high, that on a professional level, I will continue to keep in close contact to learn from him and his ideas. As a person, Mike is extremely intelligent, and deals with others at all levels positively, constructively, and with sensitivity."

"I highly recommend Mike Ellan for any developer position for which he may apply. His skills would be a valuable asset to any organization."

Suzanne Galvin, Project Manager
Whittman Hart

Over the course of the past 3 years, I have worked for Mike at Kanter International and Whittman Hart. When Mike left Kanter, and a position opened working for him at Whittman Hart, I was delighted to have the opportunity to work for him again. His leadership, and mentorship over the years has been invaluable to my own career development. Mike is always searching for a better, more efficient process utilizing the latest technology has to offer. He has brought this insight and unending quest for improvement to every department he has managed - to the benefit of the company - and those working for him.

Bonnie Vasko, Senior Developer
The Scientist Magazine

"Mike is one of the few guys I know that just gets it. He loves what he does and it shows."

Todd Miller, VP Creative Services
The Archer Group

"Mike Ellan lead our Interactive development team at WHITTMANHART. He persistently strived to improve quality and successfully designed and implemented a XML-driven model for website publishing. His team learned to program more effectively and utilized standards that improved quality."

"This strategy significantly reduced development time and greatly simplified website maintenance efficiency. As the Quality Assurance Manager, working with Mike was a great experience. We successfully reduced the number of exceptions through a superior design and careful attention to details."

Harry Fisher, MBA, PMP, CQM, CSQE
Whittman Hart

I'll be adding things here as I continue to tinker around. Remember the gent below? Back in the day he was constructing half the interweb. I just had to enlist him since this section is under contstuction, he gets the job done.

iPhone Dev Center
Apple Developer Connection

Apple Safari 3 BETA
Safari 3 BETA supports windows xp & vista

Joe Hewitt & iui team
iui project

WebKit Open Source Project
WebKit Wiki

furbo.org - iPhone benchmarks
iPhone benchmarking

BarCamp
iPhoneDevCamp

Microformats
human-readable data item format

Torrent freak
uTorrent for iPhone

iPhone development wiki team
iPhone Dev. Wiki

Laszlo Systems, Inc.
OpenLazlo - RIA Framework

A LIST apart, pt.I
Put Your Content in my Pocket, Part I

A LIST apart, pt.I
Put Your Content in my Pocket, Part II