Archive for the 'Flash Platform' Category

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 [...]

Flash and Flex Mobile and Tablet Development Books for Android and iOS Applications and Games

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 [...]

My Getting Started with Arduino and Flex/AS3 Development Presentation at FlexMania Brazil 2011

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 [...]

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 [...]