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: 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: 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Here’s an exciting new book that is full of great information regarding developing components in Flex 4. The book is very in depth and a really great read. I have yet to finish the entire thing but am slowly making my way through it. The beginning of the book is an overview of Flex and [...]
So with the release of Flash Builder 4.5 and the continuing popularity of the Android platform and devices there are a number of books coming to market. Here are a few books that should help you get up to speed and learn more about developing for Android with the Flash Platform. I had the opportunity [...]
Here’s a new AS3/Flex project I’ve been working on that uses brainwave data to control an LED on an Arduino microcontroller. The brainwave data is captured with a Mindset BCI, sent into an AIR application and then sent to an Arduino Duemilanove. It uses the AS3 API I created for interfacing Flash/Flex projects to the [...]
