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 whole gaggle of fresh and new books for mobile, game and web application development. This reading list is focused on HTML5/HTML, CSS3 and JavaScript. A number of these titles aren’t even published yet, so update you Wish Lists!! Also this list is killer for Christmas shopping. If your significant other is in the [...]

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 [...]

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: 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: Michelle Rueda age: 28 employer: N/A location: Austin, TX (just moved)! when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? Whoooeee. I believe that was in 2005. I was working at a pretty boring, soul-sucking place in NYC and I could do my job well in a couple of hours, so what did I do with the [...]

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: kathryn rotondo employer: none location: Tübingen, germany when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? in 2004, i started learning flash through evening classes from RISD’s continuing education department, and was delighted to discover actionscript. i had just completed a software engineering certificate at the harvard extension school (using mostly java), and actionscript really clicked with [...]

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: 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 [...]