Archive for July, 2011
name: Omar Gonzalez age: 32 employer: http://almerblank.com location: Venice Beach, California when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? I first started working with Flash around 1999 using Flash 4, first adding “flashy pieces” to HTML sites and eventually starting to create small apps and video players. I didn’t start Flex until Flex 2 beta. I remember [...]
July 29th, 2011 | Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Adobe AIR, Bleeding Edge Flash, Flash Builder, Flash Builder 4.5, Flash Catalyst, Flash Platform, Flash Platform Community, Flex, Flex 4.5, flex development, General Development Notes, mongodb, TDD, Test Driven Development | No Comments
name: Tony Lukasavage age: 30 employer: Appcelerator (as of 8/22/2011) location: Pittsburgh PA when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? Only about a year and a half ago, and I’m far from an expert. Most of my background before that was in back-end and middleware development in languages like C/C++, Perl, PHP, and shell scripting. One [...]
July 29th, 2011 | Posted in Android, Android Development, Flash Platform Community, html5, javascript | No Comments
name: Matthew Wallace age: N/A employer: N/A location: N/A when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? I have been a developer since 2001 and started working in the Flash Player since 2004 are you practicing TDD? why/why not? I stated using more TDD this year. It is proven to be a great way to prove functionality [...]
July 29th, 2011 | Posted in Bleeding Edge Flash, Flash Platform, Flash Platform Community, Flex, Flex 4, flex development, Flex Mobile, frameworks, General Development Notes, Interviews, TDD, Test Driven Development | No Comments
name: Jesse Warden age: 32 employer: self-employed (Warden D&D / Web App Solution) location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? Started Flash and ActionScript in 2001. Doing our projects in Director didn’t work for a variety of reasons, namely Designers couldn’t use Director with me, their designs were limited, and animations looked [...]
July 29th, 2011 | Posted in Flash Platform, Flash Platform Community, Flex, flex development, Flex Mobile, Flex Tools, frameworks, Test Driven Development | No Comments
Here’s a really cool new API that can be used for AS3 and/or Flex development if you are working with mongoDB. The really awesome thing about using mongoDB and AS3/Flex is that you don’t need a middleware language to work with the database. The API was created by Omar Gonzales, you may know him on [...]
July 17th, 2011 | Posted in ActionScript 3.0, AS3 API, Bleeding Edge Flash, Flash Platform, Flex 4, Flex API Example, flex development, mongodb | No Comments