Archive for July, 2011

Interview with Omar Gonzalez aka s9tpepper from Almer Blank

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 [...]

Interview with Tony Lukasavage from Appcelerator

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 [...]

Interview with Matthew Wallace

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 [...]

Interview with Jesse Warden aka jesterxl from Web App Solutions

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 [...]

mongoAS3 – An ActionScript 3.0 MongoDB Driver

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 [...]