Archive for the 'Flash Platform Community' Category

What Does It Mean To Be A Flash Platform Developer?

An interesting question I woke up with this morning stirring through my thoughts. I think partially due to yesterday’s Adobe MAX keynote. Partially due to the HTML5 vs. Flash debates. Partially due to the recent state of where we are in computing and development in general. Partially due to the most recent round of Flash [...]

Interview with Raymond Camden from Adobe

name: Raymond Camden (friends call me Ray, but I use Raymond when I’m trying to sound important) age: Above the age where I know it instantly. The age where I have to think for a minute. 38 employer: Adobe location: Lafayette, LA when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? My mom’s employer [...]

Interview with Kiran Ruth from Bangalore, India

name: Kiran Ruth age: 25 employer: Thoughtnet Technologies Pvt Ltd., location: Bangalore , India when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? I think I started using computer when I was in third grade.My uncle usually had (still has) loads of cool gadgets which I had access to . My cousin and me used to [...]

Interview with Nick Kwiatkowski aka @quetwo

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 [...]

Interview with Luca Mezzalira from Italy

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 [...]

seantheflexguy Interviews 25 Flash Platform Developers

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 [...]

Interview with Simon Bailey aka @newtriks

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 [...]

Interview with Dominic Graefen aka @devboy_org

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 [...]

Interview with Robin Debreuil

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 [...]

Interview with Sean Voisen from Adobe

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 [...]