Well, 2011 is officially coming to a close. It was an interesting year, that’s for sure. I rounded up a few blog entries that I posted that I thought were aggregating into a quick post. They cover: presentations, tools, books and more. Some Flex, some HTML5 and some Arduino. Hope everyone has a safe and [...]

Here’s a pretty awesome Flex job at Adobe I found searching their site this morning. Looks like the lucky applicant that is hired would be working in the Flex mobile space on the Flex team. WOW!!! The position appears to be in the San Jose (Headquarters) office. I had the opportunity to work in that [...]

Here are a couple pretty interesting looking books that could be of use for anyone getting into the world of Flash and/or Flex mobile development for Android and iOS. Some of these titles are newer than others and one is yet to be published. They all look like they’re worth checking out a bit though [...]

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 [...]

name: Joel Hooks age: 37 employer: Universal Mind location: FORT WORTH TEXAS YEEHAW when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? At the earliest was LOGO on a TRS-80 when I was about 8 or so. After that I would hack a little BASIC on my buddy’s C-64. I took the PASCAL prerequisite in [...]

name: David Wolever age: 23 employer: Verso Furniture (although the website is horribly, horribly out of date, so I won’t bother linking to it) location: Toronto, Canada when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? The first “programming” I remember was watching my dad tell DOS to count to 1000. I was impressed [...]

name: Jonathan Campos age: 29 employer: Miller & Associates / Dedo Inc. location: Dallas, Tx when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? I wasn’t interested in computers for YEARS, mainly because the only computer I was used to seeing was my dad’s golden rod computer that did nothing but print to it’s [...]

name: Doug Winnie age: 35, going on 25… employer: Adobe Systems location: San Francisco, CA when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? I started working with Flash and ActionScript back in 1999 when I was still in college and when I started my first web job as a web designer at the University of Delaware. I [...]

name: Almog Koren employer: Freelancer working under my own studio Almog Design location: Israel (Originally from Las Vegas) when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? That’s really good question I started to play around with Flash back in high school not sure what version it was but back them it was under Macromedia and it was [...]

name: Joseph Labrecque age: 235 employer: University of Denver / Fractured Vision Media, LLC location: Denver, CO USA when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? I began using Flash here and there in 1999/2000 with Macromedia Flash 4. Previous to that, I was mainly doing straight HTML and a bunch of design work; Photoshop, Illustrator, 35mm [...]