Kyle Hayes is a programmer for the Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, CA. He graduated from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in 2006 and has over twelve years of experience as a programmer. He is quite enthusiastic about innovation, design patterns, and semantic-based development. In addition, Kyle is versed in many different programming languages such as: ActionScript, AppleScript, C++, Objective-C, ColdFusion, C#, Java, JavaScript, (X)HTML, PHP, Python, and Visual Basic. Since he was very young, his passion for technology and innovation has pushed him to excel in everything that he does.

In addition to this blog, Kyle publishes Semanticism, a blog dedicated to the semantics of X/HTML. He also publishes a R/C Model Helicopter blog. He has a wide variety of interests besides programming that include listening to audiobooks (who’s got time to read?), playing the Nintendo Wii, going to Disneyland, listening to just about any music, going to plays and musicals, cooking, flying R/C helicopters, and most of all spending time with his beautiful wife whom inspires his will to live.