Back in July I had the awesome opportunity to do a presentation for the FlexMania Brazil conference on getting started with Arduino and AS3/Flex communication. I got the link to the recorded presentation and decided I’d share it with everyone. I was going to give this presentation at the UK based try { harder } conference happening in [...]
Over the last year (a little longer) I’ve been tinkering with Arduino. Building various circuits, learning how to solder (burning myself), etc. I attended a really cool workshop at METRIX CREATE:SPACE in Seattle the other night. (If you’re in the Seattle area I highly recommend checking them out, the place is too cool for words!) [...]
name: Nick Kwiatkowski age: 30 employer: Michigan State University location: Lansing, Michigan when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? My dad was into computers well before I was born. He saw them as video game systems, and always had the latest one. My first computer was a Colecovision Adam Family PC, which [...]
name: Luca Mezzalira age: 28 employer: CEO & Flash Platform Architect location: Padova (ITALY) when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? My first for cycle was written in 2004 after 8 months I was Macromedia Certified on Flash MX 2004 developer. I love code after the first day that I started to [...]
Here’s all of the interviews that everyone has graciously taken the time to complete over the last couple of months. Thank you everyone so much for your time. It’s been really awesome to get feedback on all of these topics. I hope everyone has enjoyed the interviews. There are still some outstanding interviews and I’ll [...]
name: Simon Bailey age: 35 employer: My own company – Newtriks LTD location: Leicestershire (UK) when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? My first contact was an Acorn Electron in the 80′s and a Spectrum 48k. I did nothing particularly dynamic on computers and held little interest in gaming, however I did [...]
name: Dominic Graefen / @devboy_org age: 24 employer: freelance as devboy location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? The first computer I used was a 386-something running DOS which my parents bought from a family friend. I was about 9 years old. Since that day I’ve been hooked [...]
With the current resurgence of JavaScript and the new features being added to it I’ve been doing some research over the last few months to get up to speed. Specifically I’ve been exploring JS application development frameworks and libraries for TDD/Unit Testing. Being primarily an AS3/Flex developer for the past several years I’ve grown accustom to having [...]
name: Robin Debreuil age: 1966 employer: Self Employed, contract mostly to develop games (Dinsey, RiotGames, Sesame Street etc). Work with my brother and two sons. location: A farm near Miami Manitoba Canada when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? I first used a PET2001 – that was around 12 years old. I [...]
name: Sean Voisen age: 30 employer: Adobe location: Northern California when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? My first “real” programming experience was probably in JavaScript. It was 1995, the web was still in its infancy, and my dad came home one day that summer and said he wanted to build a [...]
