That’s right! I’m on the hunt for a great team and project to dive into. Obviously my skills are mostly Flex related, AS3 as well. However I also have experience with JavaScript and Java. I can do UI Design and animation as well. I’ve been working with Flash since 1998 so there aren’t too many [...]

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: 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: 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 [...]

name: John Gorena age: 27 employer: N/A location: Dallas, TX when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? Funny… I used to be of the mindset that Flash was evil, and slowed everything down when browsing the web… At the time, I was working for a large company and finished this huge project about 9 months early. [...]

name: Jason Fincanon age: 37 employer: Intuit location: Dallas, TX when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? Shortly after I finished school at The Art Institute of Dallas (for 3D Animation) in 1998. are you practicing TDD? why/why not? No. I have no good reason. Maybe I should start… but not today… I’m doing other stuff [...]

name: Tanya Gray age: 22 employer: Me! location: Auckland, New Zealand when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? Dabbled a little in timeline animation with Flash from 2005, got into some timeline-based AS3 in 2008, then started Flex Development in 2009 with Flex 3.5 are you practicing TDD? why/why not? Unfortunately my previous employer was not [...]

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 [...]